The great Kurosawa was born a hundred years ago on March 23, 1910. In commemoration of Kurosawa's birthday there are film retrospectives, a Criterion special collection and a new book to look forward to.
Kurosawa Film Festival at The Stanford Theatre
I learned of this month-long Kurosawa film festival via @JapanIntercult on Twitter. Classics such as Ikiru, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood will be showing at the historic Stanford Theatre Feb 20 - March 30.
TCM/Turner Classic Movies: Spotlight on Kurosawa
Kurosawa's films will be featured on TCM every Tuesday for the month of March - 26 films in all, so mark your calendars!
Criterion Collection: AK 100
This awesome 25-disc set is being offered by Criterion for $319. Their blurb:
"This deluxe, linen-bound collector’s set includes twenty-five films and an illustrated book featuring an introduction and notes on each of the films by Stephen Prince (The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa) and a remembrance by Donald Richie (The Films of Akira Kurosawa)."
New Book: Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema (Hardcover)
According to the Amazon description, this book is "the most lavishly produced and profusely illustrated volume on Akira Kurosawa ever published, timed for the centennial of his birth." Release date: March 9, 2010. Author Peter Cowie has also written about Ingmar Bergman and John Ford.
And just for kicks, here is an old Kurosawa/Kitano interview! I found this on an excellent film blog for Maboroshii Productions.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
2 comments:
issho ni ikoo!
THRONE OF BLOOD! Kurosawa is the most brilliant filmmaker of our time.
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