Epic Sicilian film opens Venice Sep 3, 2009
Lee acknowledged the good that awards can achieve, citing the success of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in Venice in 1954, when it won the Silver Lion, as a "great inspiration for Asian film-makers". But he added: "I have seen some films which I thought should have won but did not and sometimes I have seen films that did win that should not have.". (BBC News -- Europe)
Brian Mackey: Weighing the worth of movies watched Jul 24, 2009
Brian Mackey, Arts & Entertainment editor of The State Journal-Register. Thu Jul 23, 2009, 11:52 AM EDT. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Film Print Gives Way To Digital Glint Jul 17, 2009
Other titles being shown on Saturdays and Sundays -- mostly in double features -- include such repertory favorites as Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows," Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," Roman Polanski's "Knife in the Water" and Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai.". Rather than the traditional 35mm prints being shipped to the Upper West Side venue, the films will be delivered via the same dedicated high-speed Internet line used for high-definition theater and opera presentations. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Quentin over Fellini? "Annie Hall" over Antonioni? Jul 15, 2009
The one foreign-language film is "The Seven Samurai," which also strikes me as an American-inflected choice ... Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa 9. (Salon)
Japan launches digital archive on director Kurosawa May 28, 2009
The archive includes scripts with his scribbles and drawings of scene ideas as well as photos taken on the sets of Kurosawa classics such as 'The Seven Samurai', 'Kagemusha' and other award-winning films. Also on display are photos showing Kurosawa as a child on a rocking horse, relaxing as an adult at his Tokyo home, and dining on a trip to France. (Yahoo! Asia News)
* World News Quick Take May 28, 2009
The archive includes scripts with his scribbles and drawings of scene ideas as well as photos taken on the sets of Kurosawa classics such as The Seven Samurai, Kagemusha and other award-winning films. The director died in 1998 aged 88. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
A Bug's Life BD May 21, 2009
Taking its inspiration from The Seven Samurai and the old fable about the ant and the grasshopper, A Bug's Life, the story centers on Flik (voiced by Dave Foley), an inventive young ant who lives in a colony terrorized by a swarm of brutish grasshoppers. Each year, the swarm comes by their small ant hill to eat a hard-earned offering of seeds, leaves and berries before the rainy season. (IGN FilmForce)
Movies in Mexico May 5, 2009
"The Magnificent Seven" (1960): A remake of sorts of "The Seven Samurai," set in a Mexican peasant village. The farmers import Steve McQueen, Yul Brenner and Charles Bronson, among others, for protection. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Different Kind Of Ghost Mar 22, 2009
"I wanted to go as far as possible from the horror genre," says Kurosawa, who is from Kobe and is not related to the late "Seven Samurai" director Akira Kurosawa. "I was intrigued by a set of four family members who could equally be protagonists, who all had their own stories," he continues. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
