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Clark
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Message 3 of 55 (367578)
12-03-2006 4:05 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by anglagard
12-03-2006 3:30 PM


Ikiru
Funny that Kurosawa is your favorite director and you haven't seen Ikiru (1952). It is about a government bureaucrat who is diagnosed with stomach cancer and has a year to live. He realizes he has a lived a meaningless life and decides to do something meaningful with his last year. Has elements of Rashomon in it, with certain parts of the story told from different points of view. Ikiru is by far my favorite Kurosawa film. Ebert has a great review of it.
I watched Seven Samurai for the 2nd time recently and was fairly disappointed. The characters were mostly good but I hated the young guy that fell in love with the girl. He was too wimpy to be a samurai. And Toshiro Mifune's character was a bit too jokey for my taste.

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Clark
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Message 6 of 55 (367604)
12-03-2006 9:58 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by tudwell
12-03-2006 9:31 PM


Hi Tudwell,
I'm a big Ingmar Bergman fan. The Seventh Seal is good, about the silence of God and facing death (Death is actually a character) and has a good amount of Biblical allegory in it. Pretty interesting. My favorites of Bergman's are Scenes From a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander. Scenes is the most brutally honest and accurate film about relationships I've ever seen. The last film he made is a sequel to Scenes called Saraband, that is excellent as well. Others of his to check out are Wild Strawberries, Persona, and Cries and Whispers.
Since you liked Pulp Fiction and are open to foreign films you should definitely check out Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard. It is the grandfather of the post-modern, stylistic film.
BTW, forget Blockbuster, get Netflix, the selection is great.

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Clark
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Message 7 of 55 (367605)
12-03-2006 10:09 PM
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12-03-2006 9:17 PM


Re: Ikiru
Can't wait to hear what you think of Ikiru.
I don't know what happened watching the Seven Samurai this time, the first time I saw it I loved it.
I heard that Kurosawa was criticized by other Japanese filmmakers because his films were so western. And they are, his samurai films are basically the same genre as John Ford and others, instead of cowboys, you got Samurai. And then American filmmakers were in turn influenced by Kurosawa, instead of Samurai, you got Jedi.

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