One of Akira Kurosawa’s last films, RAN is simply put one of the greatest films ever made. Made with the financial help of the likes of Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas, it stands as a testament of a master at the end of his life and top of his craft.
Kurosawa was nearly blind at the time and yet you will never find a more beautifully realized, perfectly composed movie.
RAN is Kurosawa’s take on…
A remake of Sidaris's first feature, STACEY!, only swapping genders of the lead. Darby Hinton as Cody Abeline makes for a charming if goofy, cowboy himbo—one of the rare Sidairs movies with a male lead that doesn't leave you checking your watch.
It's only his third movie, and you can already see Sidaris, the auteur, start to gel. Fueled by a stark bisexual gaze, MALIBU EXPRESS is stacked with dirty Dad jokes that you know had Sidaris giggling behind the…
I'm not entirely sure I get what Bujalski is getting at with COMPUTER CHESS, but I was also enraptured by every surreal second of it. The actors capture the mannerisms of the time so percisely, I swear to God, for the first five minutes or so, I thought this was a documentary.
Then shit starts getting erid. COMPUTER CHESS feels like a trip into an alternate dimension, a reality very much like our own but with enough of a difference…
No way the Blue Line to Long Beach looks that clean. I don't care how early it is.
