Akira Kurosawa Centennial Festival at Film Forum
January 12–February 18, 2010
30 different films at
Film Forum
209 West Houston (between 6th Avenue and Varick)
“SIX ACTION-PACKED WEEKS! Two masterpieces bracket this domo-arigato series, a canon that incorporates everything from pulp to Noh theater, Shakespearean tragedy to the almighty Bushido code.” – Flavorpill
“The wonder of Akira Kurosawa's 50-year career is that it was at once remarkably varied and satisfyingly coherent. Kurosawa elevated the samurai genre and reinvented action filmmaking. He adapted Shakespeare, Russian classics and American pulp novels. And he offered street-level portraits of tumultuous postwar Japan that ranged in mood from uplift to despair. Kurosawa is also honorary godfather to genres as disparate as the sci-fi adventure and the spaghetti western. Kurosawa gravitated to large canvases and grand themes. He engineered his material for utmost emotional effect; his films, in terms of both physical action and thematic meaning, are models of lucidity.”
– Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times
