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
Tagged: Charles Bronson· Eli Wallach· Hashimoto Shinobu· John Sturges· Kurosawa Akira· Oguni Hideo· Robert Vaughn· Steve McQueen· United Artists· William Roberts· Yul Brynner· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The 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 […]
Tagged: Hashimoto Shinobu· Hisoita Eijiro· Kikushima Ryuzo· Kurosawa Akira· Mifune Toshirô· Oguni Hideo· Toho Company Ltd.· ★★★★



