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5 Things You May Not Know About Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'

26 April 2012 6:58 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Picking your favorite Akira Kurosawa film is a tricky choice for any movie fan. From "Rashomon" to "Ran," the great Japanese filmmaker, one of the most beloved and influential directors of all time, knocked out a string of classics in a career that lasted well over 40 years. But more often than not, at the top of the list for Kurosawa fans is "The Seven Samurai," the 1954 samurai epic that redefined the action movie for generations.

Following six samurai (and one pretender, iconically played by Toshiro Mifune) who are recruited by a village of farmers to protect them from bandits, it remains to this day one of the most stirring, thrilling adventures in cinema history, and landed Kurosawa firmly on the map in international cinema. The film was released in Japan 58 years ago today, on April 26th, 1954 (a U.S. release, heavily cut down, would follow 30 months later), and to mark the occasion, »

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ActionFest Countdown: The Final Lineup of Films, Special Guests, How to Win a VIP Badge and More

9 April 2012 6:30 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »

  Hello again, Movies.com readers! This is Ed Travis, and ActionFest 2012 officially begins one week from this writing. We couldn’t be more excited to have this final blast of information to share with everyone! Yes, that’s right, our final wave of programming and special guests is now announced to the public. Check it out!   Final Wave Of Actionfest Programming Announced! Click any of the following titles for links to their trailers and/or websites! Dragon Eyes (North American premiere w/ star Cung Le in attendance!) Director: John Hyams, U.S.A. Mma superstar Cung Le, Jean Claude Van Damme and Peter Weller star in this modern version of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Yojimbo. A Gang Story (Regional Premiere) Director: Olivier Marchal...

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Dragon Eyes (2012) Movie Review

9 April 2012 1:53 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Let’s get one thing straight: This is not a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. Although his face is front and center on the DVD artwork, the big guy’s role in the film is very small. However, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as it allows former Mma champion Cung Le to flex his considerable muscles. “Universal Soldier: Regeneration” director John Hyams’ immensely satisfying action epic “Dragon Eyes” puts Le in the proverbial driver’s seat, and he does a good job steering the audience through a number of jaw-dropping fight sequences that are as brutal as they are entertaining. As long as you don’t mind Van Damme tackling a much smaller role than most of us are used to, then you shouldn’t have a single thing to complain about. Screenwriter Tim Tori (“Prowl”) uses Akira Kurosawa’s classic “Yojimbo” as a framework to tell the tale »

- Todd Rigney

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Top Ten Movies Based on TV Shows

19 March 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Top Ten TV to Film Adaptations This weekend 21 Jump Street scored the top spot at the weekend box-office and Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall are busy preparing a sequel and after posting my review someone on Twitter told me one of the reasons they liked it was because it was a huge improvement compared to most TV-to-film adaptations. While I enjoyed it, I wasn't as excited over it as some people seem to be and I never even thought to compare it to other TV-to-film adaptations, especially considering a film needs to stand on its own, whether it's simply better than other films that tried to make the leap from the small screen to the silver screen is irrelevant. But it did get me to thinking... what are the best TV-to-film adaptations? So I started the process of compiling a list and while 21 Jump Street is a good flick, it »

- Brad Brevet

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John Badham on A Fistful Of Dollars

8 March 2012 10:59 PM, PST | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »

Dashiell Hammet? Akira Kurosawa?  Are these among the progenitors of the spaghetti western?! Yep. Hammet’s Red Harvest informed Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, which was transformed into the first Sergio Leone Dollars blockbuster that took the world by storm (although it was not the first example of the form). Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name was treated by Us distributor United Artists as a western James Bond and marketed accordingly. All three Dollars films were released in the Us in 1967, although the first was shot in 1964. As was the custom, this original Italian trailer Americanizes the names of the cast and crew: Leone becomes Bob Roberts, Gian Maria Volonte becomes John Wells, etc.

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Five Essential... Hollywood Remakes (The Remake)

6 January 2012 3:01 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

Simon Moore selects his Five Essential Hollywood Remakes...

Remakes are easy targets. Anyone who wants to make Tim Burton cry, for instance, need only whisper ‘Planet of the Apes’ in his pale, elfin ear. Even seeing Conan the Barbarian rehashed with an Easter Island statue in the title role gets film buffs nostalgic for Arnie’s bouncing biceps. Bear in mind though, if you go to see a film about a guy in a loincloth, you’re getting all the homoerotic mental images you deserve.

Ho there, pilgrim. Let’s be sensible here. Conan is only the tip of the iceberg. The absolute worst remakes are like the worst sequels; it’s the same old story, same old beats, usually even the same bloody sets if they can manage it. So it follows that the remakes that work... aren’t remakes at all. They start over. They look at the »

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