Actors who worked with Kurosawa
Actors who worked with Kurosawa
More than Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, and Federico Fellini? Maybe there are other directors worthy of to be listed, but I'm not sure. Of course, I haven't seen every movie ever made .
This page is, at the moment, an evolving checklist of films I've seen since the beginning of 2009, mostly on DVDs, very often from the excellent Criterion Collection. It's presented roughly in the order that I viewed them, starting with Kurosawa. Omissions of indisputably great films like "Citizen Kane" or "The Godfather" just means that I haven't seen them since early 2009.
One minor point about watching movies. Where did we get the idea that we should only see a movie once? That a film should communicate all that it has to say in one viewing? We listen to the same pieces of music over and over again. ... "Beethoven's Fifth? Nah, don't play that; I've already heard it." Books? I've read The Iliad, The Lord of the Rings, and Moby Dick many times. Some people read the Bible endlessly. Plays? Who would not see a good production of Hamlet because they had already seen it? To be sure, there are many movies that I regret spending the time to see even once. But that's a different matter. There are plenty of films that bear 2nd and 3rd viewings. One critic even said that a film that has nothing more to share after one viewing isn't a very good movie.
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Film
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Year
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Director
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Comment
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1950
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Akira Kurosawa
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winner of Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival
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Seven Samurai
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1954
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Akira Kurosawa
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Sight & Sound's 2002 Critics and Directors Poll for the best films of all time
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Ugetsu
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1953
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Kenji Mizoguchi
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Silver Bear at Venice, TIME's 100 Greatest
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Tokyo Story
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1953
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Yasujiro Ozu
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Sight & Sound's 2002 Critics and Directors Poll for the best films of all time, TIME's 100 Greatest
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1952
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Akira Kurosawa
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TIME's 100 Greatest |
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La Strada
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1956
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Federico Fellini
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Academy Award Best Foreign Film |
| La Dolce Vita |
1960 |
Federico Fellini |
Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain! statue of Christ flown over Rome |
| Nights of Cabiria |
1957 |
Federico Fellini |
Academy Award Best Foreign Film |
| 8 ½ |
1963 |
Federico Fellini |
Academy Award Best Foreign Film Guido's harem scene |
| Amarcord |
1974 |
Federico Fellini |
Academy Award Best Foreign Film |
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1958
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Stanley Kubrick
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great anti-war film |
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| Open City |
1945 |
Roberto Rossellini |
landmark Italian Neorealist film |
| Das Boot |
1981 |
Wolfgang Peterson |
indisputably one of the greatest war movies ever |
| The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
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| Fellini's Satyricon |
1968 |
Federico Fellini |
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| Battleship Potemkin |
1925 |
Sergi Eisenstein |
The Odessa Steps |
| The Big Lebowski |
1998 |
Coen Brothers |
"Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner? " |
| Fargo |
1996 |
Coen Brothers |
"Blood has been shed, Jerry." |
| Sunset Blvd |
1950 |
Billy Wilder |
"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille." |
| Full Metal Jacket |
1987 |
Stanley Kubrick |
"You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit." |
| Mulholland Dr. |
2001 |
David Lynch |
First part is the dream; second part is reality. |
I also have a page on Japanese WW2 movies, none of which are listed here.
The article is just a list of films, and does not replace Wikipedia's excellent, encyclopedic articles. Also, if you want a DVD, the Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
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