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Kurosawa, In Order #2 – The Most Beautiful

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL (1944) In normal times, Kurosawa would have been given free rein after the success of Sanshiro Sugata. But it wasn’t normal times, it was World War II and Japan was losing. So Kurosawa was basically ordered to make a propaganda film with preapproved messages and material. The result was one of the …

Vampyr

I had the perfect setting for my screening of Vampyr, then life had to go and ruin it. See, the girlfriend was going to visit her parents in Brainerd this weekend. Since I don’t have weekends off I can’t afford to go see her family as often as she does, so it means that essentially …