Akira Kurosawa

"Red Cliff," John Woo's return to Chinese-language cinema after a decade and a half of Hollywood productions, cannot be viewed as anything less than a triumph. While it is not a return to the contemporary crime genre on which his reputation is built ("A...

• Brad Brevet comments on today's announcement of nominations for the 37th annual Annie Awards, noting, "Focus Features' 'Coraline' topped the list of feature nominees with 10, with Pixar's 'Up' following with nine and Disney's 'Princess and the Frog'...

Only a handful of cinema artists made Shakespeare their own on screen, and no one did it with more steely grandeur than Akira Kurosawa. His 1985 late-career masterwork “Ran,� an inversion and exploration of “King Lear,� is back in a......

Because we live in the cinema capital of the world, there's a high probability that you're familiar with legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. If not, you may want to catch up with a double feature at the Egyptian. First is the 1970 flick “Dodes'....

Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 7 - 13 in PDF format This week's TV movies BONES: Russell (Christian Slater, right) investigates remains found in a box in the season finale of "The Forgotten" at......

Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 21 - 27 in PDF format This week's TV Movies RUMER HAS IT: Jessica Lowndes, left, and Rumer Willis in a new episode of "90210" at 8 p.m. on......

THE BEGINNING... SM: So you started acting at six on The Andy Griffith Show. Your dad, Rance, was also an actor. RH: My dad was a good teacher. He’d never been to Strasberg, but he’d taken enough classes to understand the fundamentals—just to listen and...

Quick trivia No. 1: What are the only three films since 1980 to win both the box-office crown and the Academy Award for best picture? Read on while you ponder. As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prepares its perennial pageant, one might...

IN 1940, at the height of Japan's military aggression during World War II, a movie called "China Nights" won the hearts of countless Japanese soldiers and patriots who were riveted by the stirring singing voice of the young girl who plays a Chinese orphan...

William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" receives a contemporary-dress adaptation from Australia that streamlines the stage play, primarily by shearing it of the subtlety of themes and characterization and reducing it to a series of bloody plot points. Director...

A Secret Service agent (Dennis Quaid) who's back on the job one year after taking a bullet. His all-American partner (Matthew Fox), who harbors some kind of dark secret. The earnest U.S. president (William Hurt) who's determined that a political summit in...

Paul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only son. A citizen activist who campaigned for liberal...