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Classic Film Review: Kingsley, Mirren and Dance scheme their way across “Pascali’s Island” (1988)
The decade after Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for his performance in the title role “Gandhi” was one of the most interesting of his storied, four-Oscar nomination career. He’d been a respected but mostly unknown player on Brit TV for … Continue reading
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Tagged art, ben-kingsley, charles-dance, cinema, classic-film-review, greece, helen-mirren, ottoman-empire, travel, turkey
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Movie Review: A Master Mocks Yakuza Hit-Man Movies — “Broken Rage”
Leave it to Beat Takeshi to ridicule the cinematic elephantiasis that has even the Great Scorsese pushing the limits of how long a night out at the movies should last. And that Brady Corbet “Brutalist” guy? Three and a half … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, comedy, film, takeshi-kitano, yakuza
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Classic Film Review: Baby Brian (De Palma) and Baby Bobby (DeNiro) — “Hi, Mom!” (1970)
Brian DePalma’s fourth “experimental” indie feature is a time capsule of New York in decay and political disarray. It’s the movie in which his no budget guerilla filmmaking connected with the zeitgeist, and an audience of the young and the … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, classic-film, de-niro, de-palma, documentary, movie-review, new-york-in-the-70s
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Classic Film Review: An anti-war parable that became a landmark of Japanese cinema — “Ugetsu” (1953)
“The value of people and objects truly depends on their setting,” the potter Genjurô tells a noblewoman and patron at one point in the classic film “Ugetsu,” a Medieval fantasy based on the “Rain-Moon Tales” of 18th century writer Ueda … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, classic-film-review, drama, film, japan, rashomon, ugetsu
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Classic Film Review: Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” changed the Cinema and the way the World Views It
Few classic films have had the impact that “Rashomon” had on the world cinema when it premiered at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, and when it opened in the United States the day after Christmas that same year. Much of … Continue reading
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Tagged akira-kurosawa, cinema, film, japan, toshiro-mifune
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