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VIA DARJEELING set in RASHOMON mode - News
2008-06-07 09:00:00 In the years gone by, many films internationally have drawn inspiration from Japanese classic RASHOMON which was directed by Akira Kurosawa…. Read Original story
Love – The Rashomon Effect
2008-05-06 08:17:00 Have you seen Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon? Being a movie buff, I not only watch Hollywood productions but also world cinema. The movie is about an incident which has different viewpoints from all four of the witnesses. When I started writing this post, somehow I remembered the film, its unique concept and more importantly, its significance in my life today.Rio called today. As soon as his number flashed on my mobile screen, my heart skipped a beat. I said a tentative “hello”. He immediately broke into a torrent of words. I could not follow what he said in entirety because the content kept pushing me to the edge of the cliff. To cut a long story short, he was saying how he met Stephanie at a basketball match.A basketball match: it has brought happiness to a woman named Stephanie, ecstasy to a man named Rio, indifference to the players (they’d play anyway), entertainment to the spectators (they’d cheer or jeer anyway) and numbness to a creature named Emmie.Tennyson though...
Rashomon - Papillon D'Amour
2007-12-10 04:07:00 My husband posted about Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa today. That reminded me of this video "Papillon D'Amour" by Nicolas Provost which I had seen some months ago."By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance. " (via wikipedia.com)In July 2006, a Japanese court ruled that all Japanese films produced before 1953 are part of the Public Domain. So you can watch the whole movie (1h27m) here or here. The movie "Rashomon" is Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story dealing with the subjectivity of eyewitness evidence in the solving of a crime.
Pretext for murder narrated in 'Rashomon' style
2007-06-03 11:53:00 Book review of "Pretext For Mass Murder" by John Roosa:When he wrote his review of Victor Fic's Kudeta 1 Oktober 1965 and Anthony Dake's Sukarno File, referring to the two books as "fairytales with footnotes" and "truly misleading" (Kompas, March 18, 2006), readers were taken aback. So much had been written already; what more could John Roosa hope to provide in his own book, published not long after the appearance of this scathing review? In Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement & Suharto's Coup D'Etat in Indonesia, Roosa presents a convincing narrative of events surrounding one of the most infamous, inhuman massacres of the 20th Century -- a massacre in which more than 500,000 innocent Indonesians were killed.Roosa has studied radical politics in both India and Indonesia and is an assistant professor of history at the University of Columbia.Unlike the works of previous authors who, whether coming from right or left, enter the field chiefly in order to find d...
The Truth about Rashomon
2007-02-24 03:34:00 The Truth about Rashomon Akira Kurosawa’s movies are some of the best works in cinema that I have ever seen. From the first movie that I have seen of him, I realized why people regard him with such reverence. The first movie that I saw was Seven Samurai. One couldn’t help but be awed by that movie when you consider the fact that it was made in 1954. After that I became unwavering fan of his work
By: Kerala Articles
KUROSAWA, RASHOMON
2007-02-15 05:25:02 Filmes japoneses com data de produo anterior a 1953 encontram-se agora no domnio pblico, o que significa que podem ser descarregados legalmente e sem problemas com direitos de autor. Entre as obras disponibilizadas pelo site The Internet Archive encontra-se Rashomon, de Akira Kurosawa. O filme pode ser descarregado em diferentes formatos: do mais leve (95 MB) ao de maior qualidade (MPEG2, 3.9 GB). As legendas so em ingls.
By: Bitaites
Rashomon in the Public Domain
2007-02-08 18:49:01 Interesting news over at we make money not art: Kurosawa’s masterpiece Rashomon has passed on into public domain. The Japanese masterpiece is now available at the internet archive and Google video. Rashomon tells of an encounter between a samurai, his wife, and a bandit - from all three points of view. The film was responsible for launching Japanese cinema globally, and won an honorary Best Foreign Film Academy Award before the category existed. For more on Rashomon, check out our Revival Tent coverage from a couple weeks ago. So, how does something like this happen? Well, in this case, a Japanese court ruled that any film made in Japan before 1953 is public domain. However, in many cases people simply FORGET TO RENEW THE COPYRIGHT. More on public domain movies after the jump…
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