((It is always a pleasure to see dreams well-portrayed in a movie; these eight vignettes were repetitive dreams of Kurosawa, one of the premier film directors of all time. Memorable.))
From the Dreams of Akira Kurosawa
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Roger Ebert’s tribute to Kurosawa:
Akira Kurosawa one of the greatest of all film directors, died Sunday in Tokyo. He was 88. His later years were spent in near-blindness, and yet he continued to work, sketching scenes with the paper only inches from his eyes, and his final film was made only five years ago. Of the postwar giants who redefined the art of the cinema, what other director, save perhaps Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman, could claim so many masterpieces?
