Unavailable for decades — and screening here in a sparkling new 35mm print — this Oscar-nominated film was Kurosawa’s first work since Red Beard five years before. [more...]
This magisterial film — the great masterpiece of Kurosawa’s late period — is both an enthralling piece of epic movie-making and an inspired reworking of King Lear. [more...]
Kurosawa’s final film — his thirtieth feature — is a tranquil, autumnal drama, infused with his trademark humanism and belief in the transcendent power of art. [more...]
"Cast as a bleak memory in which, from the other side of paradise, a condemned man surveys the age-old trail through sex, love, and disillusionment." [more...]
This first-rate, fatalistic urban nightmare comes from noir stalwart and stylist Robert Siodmak — one of the key contributors to the genre’s aesthetic. [more...]
This dark, disturbing dissection of small-town, white-picket-fence America is said to have been Hitchcock’s own favourite among his American films. [more...]