Tag Archives: Sergio Leone

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

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

POLICE & THIEVES & BIBLICAL DEEDS

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Dave

“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Throughout history, religion has been responsible for a large proportion of the suffering in the world – yet religious beliefs are based in ancient myths and legends that should … Continue reading →