Directed by Akira Kurosawa So Rashoman is one of Akira Kurosawa's most famous films, maybe his second after Seven Samurai. Screened at the Venice Film Festival, it was the first of Kurosawa's to be seen widely by western audiences. It won best foreign film at the 1951 Academy Awards and like later Kurosawa films (Yojimbo and Seven Samurai) … Continue reading Rashomon (1950)
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Stagecoach (1939)
Directed by John Ford While it wasn't the first western, nor was it close, Stagecoach was the first modern western. Along with the introduction of what would become repeated tropes in the genre, the film was Ford's first foray into Monument Valley, the landscape he would eventually make famous, and it is what made a star … Continue reading Stagecoach (1939)
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