Yes or No?

My proposal went something like this: "It looks as if we are going to lose the war, and if it comes to the point of the Honorable Death...

Eat this chair!

[Kurosawa has to undergo a directing test upon completion of Sugata Sanshiro; the examiners include the censors of the Ministry of the Inter...

mono-no-aware

Rereading Kurosawa's Autobiography. (re editing Uma [Horses]): There is one place in the story where a foal has been sold and the mare f...

You say Brief Encounter, I say WTF

From Kevin Brownlow's David Lean: A Biography : Howard (to Lean): David, will you please explain this to me. This is a fucking awful s...

a wonderful life

Economic fallacies are especially abundant in films designed to teach business to children (72, 125). In Mrs. Peabody's Beach (125) a gr...

this sounds great!

Characters wander around aimlessly, do things for no reason, vanish, reappear, get arrested for unnamed crimes, and make wild, life-altering...

would they had blotted a thousand...

Barbara and I eventually reconciled ourselves to the fact that in buying our tickets we had sent about $20 to a place from which it would ne...

More techno

The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what y...