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Kurosawa: SEVEN SAMURAI CONTEST! Win a Kurosawa DVD of your choice! Guess the number! (by Lewis Saul)
WIN A KUROSAWA DVD OF YOUR CHOICE! I am elated to have had this opportunity to blog about Akira Kurosawa. I like to count things, and I have counted every single cut in Shichinin…
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XX. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Yume (Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams) [1990] (by Lewis Saul)]
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
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Up After Three Months in My Bed Last Night by Michael O’Keefe
Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell Gone now the baby's nurse, a lioness who ruled the roost and made the Mother cry. She used to tie gobbets of porkrind in bowknots of…
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R.I.P., J.D. Salinger
"It's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs." "I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody." "All morons hate it when you…
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On Jackson Pollock’s Birthday
<<<On this birthday of Jackson Pollock (born in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912), I’m reminded of Frank O’Hara’s appreciation for Pollock’s paintings. From the beginning of Pollock’s experimentation in the late 1940s—dripping paint…
