Tag: 1960s
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Something Like a Filmography: High And Low (1963)
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: Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a…
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Something Like a Filmography: Sanjuro (1962)
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: Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic…
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Something Like a Filmography: Yojimbo (1961)
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: The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Onibaba (1964)
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2024 Just incase you thought the sixties were only happening in the United States from a film perspective, change and rebellion was happening everywhere, particularly in Japan. Onibaba shows a very different side from what artists like Kurosawa and Ozu were doing within the confines of a studio system they…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Peeping Tom (1960)
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2024 It’s still difficult for me to reconcile the beautiful, captivating films made by Powell & Pressburger with the lurid, psychosexual menace of Powell’s 1960 solo outing Peeping Tom. On the one hand, I can see the use of color, the imaginative camera movement, the exquisite framing…even the emphasis on…
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Something Like a Filmography: The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
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 young executive hunts down his father’s killer…