Lange, and others, Taymor revealed the real reason Shakespeare has endured for so long. Like the Bible, his writing is open to many meaningful approaches. Along with Branagh, Zeffirelli, Laurence Olivier, and Orson Welles, no one was better at bringing...

At around 12,000 words, Lo’s review reads like an article in a high-tone magazine. To describe his stance, he invokes Rashomon the famous 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa in which four conflicting accounts of the same murder are given, one of them twice. ...

Cowie has written some 30 books on film, the most recent being "Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema" (Rizzoli). Only the director's third feature, the film proved an instant hit in the U.S. When François Truffaut died in 1984, at the age of just 52, he...

I wanted to choose people who had done great work or were eyewitnesses to great times. So we have Stanley Donen [director of Singin' in the Rain] and we have the brilliant Japanese actress Kyoko Kagawa who was in all the Yasujiro Ozu pictures and Akira...

An esoteric, brilliant, abstract, and well-written film, death is portrayed as a constant companion through the movie. G.V. Iyer took 35 years to write the script. It won the Swarna Kamal from the Government of India in 1983. It is often believed that...

Which one is the truth, asks Gamal Nkrumah Only once is there a jolt of spurious simplification of history. Hosni Mubarak is out of office, but five of Egypt's most highly regarded authors and political writers vied with each other to bring forth five...