One Wonderful Sunday August 3, 2023Its greatest point of interest is a device employed at the end when Kurosawa breaks the fourth wall, in a manner oddly reminiscent of Peter Pan but perhaps really indebted...
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town August 3, 2023The bumbling Longfellow Deeds, a small town tuba player moves to the big city when a relative dies and leaves him a fortune. Deeds contends with the interest of greedy...
The Making of Body and Soul August 3, 2023A pre-cursor to the Rocky Series (1976-1985) and Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980), Body and Soul recreates in parts the true story of boxer Barney Ross.
Sugata Sanshiro Part II August 3, 2023Akira Kurosawa’s government suggested sequel to his 1943 debut allegorically indicates the superiority of Japanese disciplines over foreign martial forms to revive Japan’s shattered self esteem at the end of...
Sugata Sanshiro Part I August 3, 2023Kurosawa’s confident debut on the journey of Sugata (Susumu Fujita) as he progresses in the spiritual mastery of judo establishes many of Japanese master’s favourite themes of masculinity and the...
Dead End August 3, 2023Gangster Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart) goes back to the East Side street where he grew up to see his mother, who denounces him as a murderer, and his childhood...
