Faithful readers know that a retrospective of thirty Kurosawa movies was recently shown at the Film Forum in New York City's Houston Street, and we had the good fortune to get a running commentary, as meticulous as it was enthusiastic,from Kurosawa maven Lewis Saul.
Now Turner Classic Movies is about to show Kurosawa movies on three consecutive Tuesdays. On Tuesday March 16,
2010, at 8:00 PM TCM is showing The Bad
Sleep Well (1960) with its echoes of Hamlet. At 10:45 PM, it's High And Low (1963), also with Toshiro Mifune -- based on an Ed McBain police procedural. Red Beard (1965) goes on at 1:15 AM., and I Live in Fear (1955) at 4:30 AM.
TCM is going to be all Kurosawa all the time on Tuesday March 23 -- with The Seven Samurai, Stray Dog, Rashomon and Yojimbo. Three more of his late pictures, including Ran, will play on March 30. And more to come in April.
Read or re-read Lew's posts after or before seeing any of these great movies, Click here, for example. or here (on Seven Samurai) or here (on High and Low).
