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Eternal Movement – A Thematic Understanding of Akira Kurosawa (Patreon)

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Eternal Movement – A Thematic Understanding of Akira Kurosawa

Start your 30 DAY FREE TRIAL now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Follow me: Sign up for my weekly newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/likestoriesofold Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video: Video essay exploring the themes and filmmaking philosophy found in the work of Akira Kurosawa. Sources: Every Frame A Painting – Akira Kurosawa – Composing Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8 The Cinema Cartography – Seven Samurai – Drama Through Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZSRxp-dJ-Q Akira Kurosawa – Something Like An Autobiography: https://amzn.to/3bIbgw1 Roger Ebert on Kurosawa: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/akira-kurosawa-focused-on-individual-ethical-dilemmas Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking Media included: Drunken Angel; Stray Dog; Rashomon; Hakuchi; Ikiru; Seven Samurai; I Live in Fear; The Lower Depths; Throne of Blood; The Hidden Fortress; The Bad Sleep Well; Yojimbo; Sanjuro; High and Low; Red Beard; Dodesukaden; Dersu Uzala; Kagemusha; Ran; Dreams; Rhapsody in Agust; Madadayo; The Searchers; Silence; The Magnificent Seven; Star Wars IV: A New Hope; Ghost of Tsushima Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Music: Cathedral – Summer Cathedral – Spring Slow Meadow – Fake Magic Is Real Dustin Lau – Portrait Slow Meadow – Those Who Rush Across the Sea Slow Meadow – We Can Only Love Through Suffering Slow Meadow – Screensaver Prelude Slow Meadow – A Small Balloon And A Great Mountain Music licensed from Musicbed. Elevate your videos with record-label quality music here: http://share.mscbd.fm/likestoriesofold

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MackenzieJ

Can't wait to sit down later and watch this!

Deemak Daksina

Hey Tom, I want to join the discord community

Anthony Bonet

You have outdone yourself yet again. This was an exceptional video even considering the exceptionally high standards you had already set for yourself. This video, in particular, showcases your talent for finding exactly the right moments in individual films that do more than illustrate your point but combine with your voice, the music and the images themselves to produce an emotional impact that is greater than the sum of its parts. Cinema has the amazing capacity to isolate a small moment -- a boy taking his father's hand at the end ot "The Bicycle Thief" or the remarkable sequence of remembered moments at the end of "Annie Hall" or the patriarch dividing up a small caramel candy so each member of his family can have some before they are all taken to a concentration camp or the formerly blind flower girl realizing that her benefactor was a tramp.. These moments (and so many others) are etched into my soul and yet they are, literally, instants. They are also fragile -- you cannot overload them with extravagant techniques (music, zooming cameras, over-clever editing, hyperbolic performances, etc.) Certain artists hit their mark much more frequently than others: De Sica, Bergman, Tarkovsky and Kurosawa (among many others) seem to understand the power of cinema in this regard where others -- even some very good ones (Spielberg, for example) don't seem to trust their audiences and cannot resist the impulse to overstate their case. Your beautiful, thoughtful video essays are proof that you really understand the emotional and intellectual power of art in general, of course, but specifically of the impressive skill set that goes toward making memorable cinema. (Sorry for being long-winded... I got carried away)

Kathy L Russell

This essay captures the heart of Kurosawa, so thoughtful and poignant. One of my favorite Kurosawa films is Red Beard, a journey of breaking down pride and building humility and humanity. Thank you for the work you do, I am always deeply moved...and usually brought to tears.

Elliott Rose

It will be a great tragedy when you stop making these incredible videos. Absolutely brilliant

Michael Ilasi

Please don't ever stop - but then...stop when the time is right. But these essays are some of the greatest things i have discovered in my life. Treasures all of them.