IKIRU (1952) The Idiot didn’t do well, but after the international success of Rashomon it didn’t matter. Kurosawa had an unprecedented amount of clout for a Japanese director. However, he wasn’t quite satisfied that he had made his name with a period piece and explicitly said in his acceptance of the Venice Film Festival Prize …
In a typical Hollywood film, cancer is never funny. It’s not hard to rattle off dozens of films devoted to people having a terminal illness and how awful it is for everyone involved and, of course, the tale inevitably ends in tears. Perhaps the worst offender is the Michael Keaton vehicle My Life, in which …
Well Dennis Hopper has succumbed to cancer. How shitty. Truly a fantastically talented actor who rarely brought less than his A game to even the most frivolous of films, he’s an American cinema icon who will be sorely missed. I don’t know about you but I plan on honoring him by drinking 6 bottles of …
Well I originally had a different film in mind for my next viewing, but considering the news broke today that Patrick Swayze had finally succumb to cancer* I thought it would be best to select one of the few films of his I hadn’t seen during my formative years. That film being the post-apocalyptic epic …