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...through the eye. But the imagery is of comparable quality, at once awesome in its power, delicate in its irony and, finally, for all the violence of the events it recounts, eerily serene in the sureness with which it achieves its effects. At 75, with such films as Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo already installed furnishings of the modern sensibility, Kurosawa is not only the master of his own medium but, more important, of his own mind as well...
Braithwaite's hot pursuit of Flaubert trivia is the scholarly equivalent of a lover singing the praises of his beloved's toes, but it's also a statement about the ultimate futility of biography on a large scale. The second chapter, entitled "Chronology," gives a Rashomon-like series of perspectives on Flaubert's lifeline, all strictly factual and yet entirely contradictory. Once the big picture is safely relegated to the dusty attic of preceding scholarship, Braithwaite gives us his Flaubert--thin slices through the tissue of the writer's life along various thematic points. We can never know everything about...
...award was once worth caring about. Since 1947, when the Italian film Shoeshine was the first foreign-language film to receive an Oscar, the category has honored both landmark art (The Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, Through a Glass Darkly, 8 1/2) and sophisticated diversion (Seven Samurai, Z, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Day for Night). The Academy might err on the side of aesthetic conservatism; trailblazers such as Godard, Antonioni and Fassbinder were never so much as finalists for the prize, and directors like Bergman and Truffaut were cited years after their films had won critical acceptance. But in general...
...Francis Coppola, 45, has any chance of getting The Cotton Club to the screen in December as planned, it rests with U.S. District Court Judge Irving Hill. In a ruling last week in Los Angeles, Hill likened a foot-high pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back-lot struggle for control of the way-over-budget...
...veteran star of 126 films and Japan's most famous actor, but Toshiro Mifune, 63, is still known to American audiences by only a handful of movies, among them Kurosawa's Rashomon and the TV mini-series ShŌgun. In spite of his relatively low profile in the U.S.-or perhaps because of it-Mifune was honored last week at the Japan Society in Manhattan, which was beginning an eight-week-long, 40-film retrospective of his work. He surprised his New York audience by appearing at the gala opening in the costume yabusame, a centuries...