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Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1949 – 1950
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Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1949 – 1950

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Today’s Kurosawa 101 films include the director’s only effort at bringing a contemporary Japanese stage play to the screen (the rarely seen The Quiet Duel), a police procedural that was the finest Kurosawa film to date (Stray Dog), and a scree against tabloid journalism that resulted in one of the weakest films he would ever direct (Scandal).

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10 Great Films Available to Stream This July

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A Parallel History of America Through Filmmaker Debra Granik
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A Parallel History of America Through Filmmaker Debra Granik

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Sure, Debra Granik helped direct Jennifer Lawrence to her first Oscar nod, but her new motorcycle documentary gives her oeuvre a theme: films about the neglected and disenfranchised in America.