Tag Archives: Akira Kurosawa

primal energy fields: love children in space

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Famous Monsters of Filmland October 1978 issue, #148 Photograph: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 35 years ago this spring (officially, May 25th, 1977) STAR WARS opened in theaters across the country, and mainstream movies would never … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, famous monsters of filmland magazine, George Lucas, jack kirby, jesse marinoff reyes, jim warren, Joseph Campbell, joseph campbell art, Joss Whedon, Kurosawa The Hidden Fortress, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, robert newman, robert newman the village voice, roy thomas marvel, Star Wars anniversary | Leave a comment

mifune : mimicked but….accept no substitute

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Last week we looked at 24 Akira Kurosawa film posters on the occasion of his 102 nd birthday, with many of the posters featuring his star, Toshiro Mifune. Today, we look at Toshiro Mifune on what would … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Shake Your Hips | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, hiroshi inagaki, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, miyamoto musashi swordsman, Sergio Leone, Toshiro Mifune, Toshiro Mifune Samurai trilogy, Toshiro Mifune Sanjuro, Toshiro Mifune Yojimbo | Leave a comment

mifune: 3 feet of film deep

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Happy Birthday Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997). Today, we look at Toshiro Mifune on what would have been his 92st birthday (with many films directed by Kurosawa). Well, they did 16 films together and they ranged from great, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Shake Your Hips | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Film history, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Toshiro Mifune, toshiro mifune drunken angel, toshiro mifune rashomon, toshiro mifune scandal, toshiro mifune the seven samurai | Leave a comment

exotic culture and exotic trauma

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Dave

We are often surrounded by Japanese manufactured and designed products, yet not much is known about the national context that gives rise to this phenomenon of innovation. It is not a random occurrence, but instead part of a national tradition … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged advanced robotics, Akira Kurosawa, allan levine, asimo, asimo honda motor company, haruki marukami, ian buruma, japanese gundams, japanese tsunami 2011, karakuri ningyo dolls, kobe abe, larry kudlow, sakyo komatsu, wakamaru robot | Leave a comment

japanese anime: sailing into the edges of the divine

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Dave

Its an exotic culture but who would have thought it could contain such struggles over the nature of utopia? There is always a secret beneath the shiny hard exterior of the body politic.Underneath the signature poses and porcelain gestures there … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, antonia levi, brent allison, brian ruh, Edward Said, Henry Jenkins, ian condry, japanese anime, osamu tezuka, Steve Anderson, susan napier, thomas f. DeFrantz | Leave a comment

PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Penn, Bruce Willis, Christopher Frayling, Clint Eastwood, Dashiell Hammett, Drucilla Cornell, Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, Pasquale Marco Veltri, Paul Cooke, Peter Bondanelle, R. Philip Roy, Robert Altamann, Robert Altman, Robert Pippin, Ross Miller, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Leone, Sergio Sollima, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Thomas Weisser, Tim Dirks, Walter Benjamin, Walter Brennan, William Wellman, William Wyler, Wyatt Earp | 2 Comments

TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dave

According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune | Leave a comment

ABANDONMENT ANXIETY & MAD PRIDE

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Dave

As is well documented, Van Gogh, shot himself, accidentally or intentionally.It was called a suicide. But, was his own physician partly to blame for his death? The end of Vincent Van Gogh, was indeed strange. …. In 1947, Antonin Artaud, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Searle, Akira Kurosawa, Antonin Artaud, Armand Guillaumin, Dietrich Blumer, Felix Rey, Gaugin, Henri Gastaut, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Richman, Lesley Stern, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, Robert Altman, Stephen R. Killeen, Theo van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Wilfred Niels Arnold | Leave a comment

DOSTOEVSKY, KUROSAWA AND THE HEIJI WAR

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Dave

Akira Kurosawa ( 1910-1998 ) applied Western philosophy to Eastern themes in films that appealed to both worlds, but not always for the same reasons. Kurosawa used a narrative style to recount his stories, a form of cinematic deconstruction that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Akia Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, Crime and Punishment, Dan Harper, Donald Richie, Heiji War, Ikuru, Japaenese Cinema, Japanese Film history, Maxim Gorky, Otero Vedi, Ran, Seven Samourai, Tatsuya Nakadai, The magnificent Seven, Toshiro Mifune, Verdi | Leave a comment

A COUPLE CHINA CAT SUNFLOWERS

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Dave

China Cat Sunflower is a Grateful Dead song from the LSD heyday written by Robert Hunter, about obscure and random observations while on an acid trip.”Look for a while at the China cat sunflower/Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun/Copperdome … Continue reading →