Apparently, no director has ever needed a good script more than John Sturges. His work in The Magnificent Seven is static, the camera as disinterested in the film’s goings-on as the majority of the cast. He lets the camera sit and stare, cutting when it wakes up from its nap. He also appears not to […]
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The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
May 2nd, 2007 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe Bad Sleep Well (1960, Kurosawa Akira)
March 16th, 2006 2 Comments
I had no idea it was Mifune Toshirô (nor did I get the Hamlet subtext).
Kurosawa mixes genres a lot with The Bad Sleep Well. It’s an incredibly romantic film, but not from the start. The start is a twenty minute wedding scene, all told from reporters’ points of view. It creates a distancing effect, it […]
