dvdspindoctor.typepad.com - 8/20/2009
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Criterion's Blu-ray of Akira Kurosawa's late-period masterpiece "Kagemusha" merits a table-pounding call for owners of the previous DVD to upgrade. It's that work of alchemy we've been waiting for since the classics label got into the HD game. Purists who hated Kurosawa's move from soulful ...
mattehavoc.blogspot.com - 8/18/2009
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mattehavoc.blogspot.com —
This multitudinous review is part of the Akira
Kurosawa installment of the LAMBs in the Director's Chair...
feature sponsored by the Large Association of Movie Blogs . Nora inu / Stray Dog (1949). For several years after the end of World War II, ...
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Work of Akira Kurosawa
movieprojector.blogspot.com - 8/18/2009
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movieprojector.blogspot.com —
NOTE: I am reprinting this post from September
2008 as part of the LAMBs in the Director's...
Chair event on Akira Kurosawa. To read more on Kurosawa and for a link to the LAMB website click here . The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) ...
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Contemporary Kurosawa: The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low
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Massive Kurosawa set due from Criterion
DVD Spin Doctor —
... "Throne of Blood," also included, has just been rereleased as an Essential Art House title, going for about $14 on Amazon. This is the master at his best. Also, "Kagemusha" hit Blu-ray last month with stunning visuals. ...
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atomicpopcorn.net 9/8/2009 —
I know nothing of the animated Akira , other than it involves a post-apocalyptic setting, a huge gun, and a pretty freakin’ sweet motorcycle. Which is also just about all I need to know in order to be excited about anything.
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getthebigpicture.net 9/8/2009 — Were we smokescreened earlier this year when it was revealed that Leonardo
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now it looks like it's back on.
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Massive Kurosawa set due from Criterion
feedproxy.google.com 9/18/2009 — Criterion will cheer fans of Japanese cinema with its December release of "AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa."
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