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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Will Collaborate on a Remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Film, ‘High and Low’

 ©Courtesy of Toho  Spike Lee, who is currently heading the jury at the Red Sea International Film Festival, took time out to talk to reporters about his upcoming film, Highest to Lowest, which he described as a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller High and Low. Kurosawa’s film was about a Yokohama shoe-company executive…

Akira Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI, Restored in 4K for the First Time | Opens July 5 at Film Forum

©Courtesy of Toho Studios “THE FINEST JAPANESE FILM EVER MADE.” — Donald Richie TOSHIRŌ MIFUNE STARS IN AKIRA KUROSAWA’S  SEVEN SAMURAI U.S. PREMIERE OF 70th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION RESTORED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 4K JULY 5 – 18 AT FILM FORUM ©Courtesy of Toho Studios A new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s epic masterpiece, SEVEN SAMURAI…

MIFUNE, 4-Week Festival of 33 Films Opens Feb. 11 at Film Forum

Co-Presented byFEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 10 AT FILM FORUMFOUR-WEEK FESTIVAL OF 33 FILMS STARRINGTHE LEGENDARY JAPANESE ACTOR TOSHIRŌ MIFUNE35mm rarities and rediscoveries imported from the libraries ofThe Japan Foundation and The National Film Archive of JapanSeries includes SEVEN SAMURAI, RASHOMON, YOJIMBO, THRONE OF BLOOD, A WIFE’S HEART, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, HIGH AND LOW, DRUNKEN ANGEL,…

Netflix’s Monster : An Investigation On The Nature Of The Truth — Film Review

Monster is an American legal drama film directed by Anthony Mandler, from a screenplay by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley and Janece Shaffer; based on the YA novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, and is now available on Netflix. Just like…