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: THERE IS MAN AND BEAST AT NATURE’S MERCY.... Continue Reading →
Something Like a Filmography: Dodes’ka-den (1970)
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: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film... Continue Reading →
Book Report: Condorman by Joe Claro
Jon writes a book report on the Condorman novelization by Joe Claro, for reasons that seemed good to him at the time.
Something Like a Filmography: Red Beard (1965)
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 testament to the goodness of humankind, Akira... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
