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XIX. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Rashômon (In the Woods) [1950] (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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Bullet Post [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Sorry to be filing late. When I sat down at my desk there was a blue sky with white puffy snowflakes that turned out to be insulation from the house they’re building…
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Pat Conroy, Blythe Danner and the Beaufort International Film Festival by Michael O’Keefe
On February 18, 2010 I am flying to Savannah, GA and driving an hour north to Beaufort, SC for the Beaufort International Film Festival. Pat Conroy, novelist and author of The Prince of Tides…
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Tolls [by Michael O’Keefe]
Tolls (For MG. A.) We are not much more than water sheathed in skin, everything passing through us like ships in a thin canal. Cargoed with expectation, memory and loss, we levy ourselves with…
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XVIII. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Kagemusha (The Double/Shadow Warrior) [1980] (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…