Tag Archives: Akira Kurosawa

primal energy fields: love children in space

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Famous Monsters of Filmland October 1978 issue, #148 Photograph: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 35 years ago this spring (officially, May 25th, 1977) STAR WARS opened in theaters across the country, and mainstream movies would never … Continue reading

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mifune : mimicked but….accept no substitute

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Last week we looked at 24 Akira Kurosawa film posters on the occasion of his 102 nd birthday, with many of the posters featuring his star, Toshiro Mifune. Today, we look at Toshiro Mifune on what would … Continue reading

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mifune: 3 feet of film deep

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Happy Birthday Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997). Today, we look at Toshiro Mifune on what would have been his 92st birthday (with many films directed by Kurosawa). Well, they did 16 films together and they ranged from great, to … Continue reading

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exotic culture and exotic trauma

We are often surrounded by Japanese manufactured and designed products, yet not much is known about the national context that gives rise to this phenomenon of innovation. It is not a random occurrence, but instead part of a national tradition … Continue reading

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japanese anime: sailing into the edges of the divine

Its an exotic culture but who would have thought it could contain such struggles over the nature of utopia? There is always a secret beneath the shiny hard exterior of the body politic.Underneath the signature poses and porcelain gestures there … Continue reading

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PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL

Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading

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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading

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ABANDONMENT ANXIETY & MAD PRIDE

As is well documented, Van Gogh, shot himself, accidentally or intentionally.It was called a suicide. But, was his own physician partly to blame for his death? The end of Vincent Van Gogh, was indeed strange. …. In 1947, Antonin Artaud, … Continue reading

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DOSTOEVSKY, KUROSAWA AND THE HEIJI WAR

Akira Kurosawa ( 1910-1998 ) applied Western philosophy to Eastern themes in films that appealed to both worlds, but not always for the same reasons. Kurosawa used a narrative style to recount his stories, a form of cinematic deconstruction that … Continue reading

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A COUPLE CHINA CAT SUNFLOWERS

China Cat Sunflower is a Grateful Dead  song from the LSD  heyday written by Robert Hunter, about obscure and random observations while on an acid trip.”Look for a while at the China cat sunflower/Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun/Copperdome … Continue reading

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