Takashi Shimura stars as the career bureaucrat who wakes up from a sleepwalking existence to give his life meaning in Kurosawa’s most personal movie.
Tag: 1952
Jean Renoir’s ‘The Golden Coach’ on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel
Anna Magnani stars as the earthy, vivacious diva of The Golden Coach (France/Italy, 1952), an adaptation of a Prosper Merimee play about a traveling troupe of Italian commedia dell’arte players in a Peruvian backwater where three men (a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a fellow performer) vie for the affections of the company’s leading lady. An […]
Blu-ray: ‘On Dangerous Ground’ on Warner Archive
On Dangerous Ground (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) (1952), directed by Nicholas Ray from a script he developed with A.I. Bezzerides and producer John Houseman, opens on the urgent yet fractured dramatic score by Bernard Herrmann, a theme that rushes forward anxiously, pauses with quieter instruments, then jumps again as we watch the nocturnal city streets in […]