Going 20 years into the future and changing from zombies to…reindeer? Just goes to show you that anything is ripe for horror, provided it’s done with care and attention. I can’t recall if I’ve seen any other classic films coming out of Finland (recent comedies and action, sure…), but The White Reindeer reinforced my desire to get better acquainted with the country’s film history. Blending folk horror with scrappy filmmaking that is both indebted to the Hollywood studio template as well as alien to it, the film has doses of magic even in its more mundane moments. After the pallor of White Zombie, it was great to have The White Reindeer bolster my enthusiasm.

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Something Like a Filmography: The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: The Hidden Fortress (1958)

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Something Like a Filmography: The Lower Depths (1957)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Kurosawa transforms Maxim Gorky’s classic proletariat play The Lower Depths, remaining faithful to the original with its focus on the … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: The Lower Depths (1957)

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Something Like a Filmography: Throne Of Blood (1957)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Throne Of Blood (1957)

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Something Like a Filmography: I Live In Fear (1955)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Both the final film of this period in which Akira Kurosawa would directly wrestle with the demons of … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: I Live In Fear (1955)

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Something Like a Filmography: Seven Samurai (1954)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Seven Samurai (1954)

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Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

Tag: 1950s

Hooptober 12.0 – The White Reindeer (1952)

Something Like a Filmography: The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Something Like a Filmography: The Lower Depths (1957)

Something Like a Filmography: Throne Of Blood (1957)

Something Like a Filmography: I Live In Fear (1955)

Something Like a Filmography: Seven Samurai (1954)