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...Akira Kurosawa is one of the few epic poets of the cinema, and his new movie, Dersu Uzala, brought the festival moments of real majesty. Shot in Russia-in 70-mm. screen size and stereophonic sound-Dersu Uzala is a rather delicate fable about the friendship between a Russian surveyor (Juri Solomine) and the man he employs as a guide. Dersu Uzala (ebulliently and affectionately played by Maxim Munzuk) lives in the forests of eastern Siberia in easy alliance with the natural order. The surveyor, called "the Captain," is a man of science and precision. Dersu is a creature...
...Japanese prefer not to leave home to see a movie. As a result, some 5,000 of Japan's 7,500 movie houses have been closed or converted into bowling alleys and supermarkets. Time was when the great Japanese directors like Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa were winning film festivals all over the world with movies like An Autumn Afternoon, Rashomon and Seven Samurai. Today Kurosawa has priced himself out of the local market...
...popular favorite at Lincoin Avenue School. Not having seen it since then, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out. There are a bunch of stars in it (Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero myths...
...Kurosawa. The festival of great Japanese films continues at the Park Square, the Kenmore remaining immobilised by an interminable run of the Monty Python film. Anyway this weekend features Rashomon and Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. Rashomon is set in something like 9th century Kyoto, and examines four people's subjective accounts of a murder. After that Park Square is showing Yojimbo (which Kurowasa made because he was so pissed off that the Americans copied Seven Samurai when they made The Magnificent Seven--so it's a parody). With it is another film starring Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood (a version...
...Kurosawa's Ikiru Sunday, March...