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65 Years Ago, a Legendary Director Made an All-Time Classic Samurai Movie — And Inspired Star Wars

George Lucas drew from a pastiche of samurai films and pulp adventures, but Akiro Kurosawa's 1958 classic casts a great shadow on the galaxy far, far away.

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Rebel Moon — Part One review: Zack Snyder delivers The Magnificent Seven in space

In What To Watch's Rebel Moon - Part One review, we called Zack Snyder's confident riff on familiar sci-fi tropes an impressive sci-fi epic with its own flavor.

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Rebel Moon: release date, trailer, confirmed cast, plot synopsis, and more

Here's everything you need to know about Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder's new space epic movie for Netflix.

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Martin Scorsese is still curious -- and still awed by the possibilities of cinema

“Killers of the Flower Moon,” a $200-million, 206-minute epic produced by Apple that's in theaters Friday, is an audacious big swing by Martin Scorsese to continue his kind of ambitious, personal filmmaking on the largest scale at a time when such grand, big-screen statements are increasingly a rarity

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Martin Scorsese is still curious — and still awed by the possibilities of cinema

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an audacious big swing by Martin Scorsese to continue his kind of ambitious, personal filmmaking on the largest scale at a time when such grand, big-screen statements are increasingly a rarity

The Independent UK

TV tonight: more chaos, capers and comedy as Brassic returns

Vinnie tries to stay alive using a cap and glasses. Plus, Stacey Solomon and her cheerful experts help sort out our lives. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa’s truly daring film is still electrifying

Famously telling four contradictory accounts of the same event – a samurai is dead – Kurosawa’s unsettling movie influenced countless productions that came after

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20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!

With the 80th instalment of the festival on the Lido around the corner, we sort through the winners of one of cinema’s most prestigious accolades

The Guardian - UK

What is Rebel Moon? Everything we know about Zack Snyder's new Netflix space opera

The Man of Steel director is off to Rebel Moon for an adventure inspired by both Star Wars and Akira Kurosawa.

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9 The Mandalorian Behind-The-Scenes Secrets About Pedro Pascal's Star Wars Character

There is more to learn about Pedro Pascal's The Mandalorian character from behind-the-scenes.

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I Watched Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress To See How Close It Really Is To Star Wars - This Is What I Found

As many Star Wars fans know, George Lucas was inspired by Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. But, by how much? Well, you're about to find out.

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5 Classic Japanese Films That Were Not Directed By Akira Kurosawa

There are a great many classic Japanese films that weren't directed by Akira Kurosawa. Here are just a few of them.

Cinemablend

'God of War Ragnarök’s Black and White Mode Makes No Sense

'God of War Ragnarök's latest use of cinematic visuals is proof games need to stop lifting from movies without purpose.

Inverse

Michael Phillips: The movies’ greatest action scenes, from the silent era to ‘John Wick 4′

With director Chad Stahelski’s massively successful opening week of “John Wick: Chapter 4” dominating a nervous film industry at the moment, the time is right to argue about the movies’ century-plus tradition of action cinema.

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Bill Nighy plays a dying council worker looking for meaning in Living, which reaches for profundity but ultimately rings hollow

The British actor was nominated for best actor at the Oscars for his role in this 50s-set drama written by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.

The Guardian - UK

‘Eighty-nine perfect minutes’: 30 of the best short films and novels

Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time

Los Angeles Times

The blink-and-you-miss-them film references in 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'

The DNA of "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" is less 16th-century Italian fairy tale than it is 20th-century Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa. Several shots in the animated sequel are directly inspired by some of those masters' most famous images. It's all part of how the "Puss" filmmakers used…

The Guardian - UK

Film-maker Hassan Nazer on his love letter to Iranian cinema

The Scottish-Iranian director’s heartwarming new film, Winners, tells the tale of a child in Iran boy with a passion for movies

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Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy dies at 79

Tom Luddy, who co-founded the Telluride Film Festival as part of a long and varied career in the film industry, has died at age 79.

Inverse

'Rebel Moon' release date, cast, trailer, and plot for the Zack Snyder sci-fi

Zack Snyder and Netflix are reaching for the stars with an original new sci-fi, 'Rebel Moon.' Here's everything we know so far.

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Review: Bill Nighy's elegant performance shows character's zest for 'Living'

Conventional wisdom says it's a bad idea to remake a classic. Fortunately, "Living" ignored that wisdom.

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'Living' review: Bill Nighy captivates in this small, quiet tale

It should come as no shock that the great novelist Kazuo Ishiguro ("The Remains of the Day," "Never Let Me Go," "Klara and the Sun") has a beautifully delicate hand as a screenwriter — but nonetheless "Living," directed by Oliver Hermanus and based on Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru," arrives…

Boston Herald

Movie review: Bill Nighy triumphs in poignant ‘Living’

A greatly moving hybrid film, the British entry “Living” is based on the 1952 film “Ikiru” by the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, itself loosely based on Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” The Kurosawa film features a great Takashi Shimura (“Seven Samurai”) in the lead. “Living,” which…

Los Angeles Times

Review: If you doubted the greatness of Bill Nighy, a moving new drama offers 'Living' proof

Not long into "Living," Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn't come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his calmly appraising gaze or his thin, flat line of a mouth…

The Guardian - UK

Living review – Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale

Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood give deeply affecting performances in this melancholy, understated tale of mortality and lost youth based on Kurosawa’s classic film, Ikiru

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