Harold and Maude

Silent Souls is a film about death. But the precise pace of this film, which is full of the kind of lengthy driving sequences that lull one into contemplation, provided plenty of room to think about the implications of the dead body in the back seat. There are a lot of ways to think about […]

Akira Kurosawa’s epic Samurai films are among the greatest movies ever made. But it is a quiet, intimate story about a very different sort of hero, a mid-level bureaucrat confronted with the futility of his own life, that may be the director’s masterpiece. Certainly it’s one of his most spiritual films.