Category: Movies at the Riv
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One man’s quest for a missing gun turns into an introspective journey on the plight of postwar Japanese veterans in this venerable Kurosawa picture. On his way home after a session at the gun range, Detective Murakami finds himself the victim of a pickpocket. But the thief doesn’t steal a couple of coins, but a…
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Eleanor Coppola’s archival footage of her husband’s trials during the filming of Apocalypse Now (1979) remains one of the finest examples of behind-the-scenes footage ever. In one of the most legendary shots of the 1979 Vietnam War classic Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen in full commando garb, ascends from a lake, his…
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At a 4K Restoration at the SBIFF Riviera Theater, Masayuki Suo’s tale of a businessman learning ballroom dancing is as timeless as ever. In one pivotal scene from Masayuki Suo’s Shall We Dance? (1996), successful Japanese businessman Shohei Sugiyama dances alone underneath a bridge, while the private investigators his wife hired to follow him look…
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Akira Kurosawa pulls off a perfect Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare in this beautiful classic. Hunters stand on rolling hills in the Japanese countryside. One finds three boars in the distance. They mount. They pursue. And soon, all three are dead. The main conflict in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran is not political, or even dynastical. It is,…
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