Akira Kurosawa and Great Clips Rick on 04 Jul 2008
Nobody was better at composing for the 4:3 frame than Akira Kurosawa. Like many of the directors of the day, he routinely used normal to slightly wide lenses; with the advent of widescreen, he abandoned them in favor of telephotos, and rarely looked back.
Here’s a scene from Ikiru (1952) that illustrates. The protagonist [...]
Akira Kurosawa and News Rick on 08 Jun 2008
So I was rooting around on IMDB the other day, and I came to Akira Kurosawa’s page, and here’s what I saw under “Director”:
Gendai no No (2010) (filming)
And I thought: You can’t fool me . . . Kurosawa’s been dead for years. Must be one of IMDB’s legendary mistakes. Just for yucks, I pressed the [...]
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