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.
One blog that’s reliably fascinating is If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Predominantly visual, they regularly post intriguing images from film and other pop culture (and occasionally slightly higher culture, for that matter). Today’s post is nifty, screenshots that feature “frame within the frame” composition. Here’s a […]
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.
