Ikiru (Criterion Collection) (1952) (2 Discs)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Blessed with timeless humanity, grace, and heartbreaking compassion, Ikiru is one of the most moving dramas in the history of film. Legendary director Akira Kurosawa is best remembered for his samurai epics, but this [... more]
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Rock (Widescreen)
excellent film with great extra features: This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film. In this director approved Criterion Collection release, we are treated to some excellent materials. The film follows the story of Francis [... more]
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State of Fear
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Style Wars
From Amazon.com: Some call it tagging, some call it writing, still others call it bombing--it's all graffiti. Whether it's art or not is another matter, but it's undeniably illegal. Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's historic PBS documentary Style Wars [... more]
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The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
Excellent study of a master filmmaker: "The Warrior's Camera" is not a casual book for fans of "Yojimbo" and "The Seven Samurai." It is a dense, scholarly tome designed for film majors to study. The book takes for granted [... more]
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The Lower Depths (1957) (Criterion Collection)
Amazon.com Essential Video: In faithfully adapting Maxim Gorky's classic play The Lower Depths, Akira Kurosawa incorporated themes from several of his better-known films. Transplanted from the play's Russian setting to Japan's Edo (pre-Tokyo) period, the [... more]
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Liquid Sky
Amazon.com essential video: This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film [... more]
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Drunken Angel
From Amazon.com: Upon its release in 1948, Drunken Angel was hailed in Japan as Akira Kurosawa's directorial breakthrough, comparable to Kubrick's Paths of Glory in the way it catapulted Kurosawa into a higher level of artistic achievement. Kurosawa [... more]
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State of Fear CD
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Style Wars
From Amazon.com: Some call it tagging, some call it writing, still others call it bombing--it's all graffiti. Whether it's art or not is another matter, but it's undeniably illegal. Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's historic PBS documentary Style Wars [... more]
CDN$27.95
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State of Fear
From Amazon.com: Amazon Exclusive Content A Michael Crichton Timeline Amazon.com reveals a few facts about the "father of the techno-thriller." 1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois, on Oct. 23. 1960: Crichton graduates from [... more]
CDN$11.99
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State of Fear
From Amazon.com: Amazon Exclusive Content A Michael Crichton Timeline Amazon.com reveals a few facts about the "father of the techno-thriller." 1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois, on Oct. 23. 1960: Crichton graduates from [... more]
CDN$69.95
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