There are not many people who enjoy foreign films. Watching movies with voice over or reading subtitles for movies can sometimes seem like a chore. The good news is that if you find it difficult watching foreignmovies, then you won’t have to lose one. your Netflix rental. There are many great foreign movies on Netflix […]
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Akira Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910 to the descendents of a samurai family, with seven brothers and sisters. His childhood was marred repeatedly by death and destruction, all three of his brothers dying premature deaths, as well as one of his sisters. He lived through the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, in which 100,000 people […]
Kurosawa’s (1950) Rashomon is a film that shows how one person’s perception and narrative of an event can differ from another’s version. It also shows how much people will do to protect their self-image – from lies and deception to murder. By the end of the movie, it’s still unclear which of the four stories […]
South Park’s latest episode, Fish Sticks, was a bizarre riff on late night comedy, the nature of humor, Carlos Mencia, and Kayne West. It seems to have its origins in Akira Kurosawa, American gangster films, with a dash of theater of the absurd. Some spoilers are certainly revealed below. The action starts when Cartman, having […]
It’s a tough job trying to come up with the top ten X-Files episodes of all time. Frankly, I think I should have done the top twenty instead, but that would take too much writing. I’m sure some of these episodes will draw the ire of manic X-Files fans as they search for their favorites. […]
Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashamon is loosely based on two short stories by Ryuonsuke Akutagawa. The main story of the film is based on In the Grove while the film’s opening and closing scenes is from the short story, Rashomon. Like other novels or books that became films, there are naturally differences in the film and […]
We are rarely ever presented with situations that offer us a clear-cut or simple solution. Rather, in order to determine the truth behind any event, we must seek out all of the information and different versions of a story, which exist, putting together the “truth” based on our own opinions and the various versions, which […]