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31 May 2012 2:34 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Akira Kurosawa dreams of a sustainable, happy world to live in; he calls this world Village of the Watermills. This short film is the last in Kurosawa’s collection of eight shorts called ‘Dreams’. All eight films are actual dreams that Kurosawa had at different points in his life. The final dream appears to be a happy ending that leaves the audience with a ray of hope for the future.

Kurosawa was a highly influential Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer and editor who won multiple awards at Cannes, Oscars and Berlin. He also won the Academy award for lifetime achievement. He is said to be the inspiration for George Lucas’s Star Wars. Kurosawa’s vision is extraordinary and his profound stories can often be looked at from different points of view.

Village of the Watermills is the story of a young traveler who walks into a village that perhaps resembles paradise on earth. »

- Archana Iyer

10 February 2012 1:34 PM, PST | BestWeekEver | See recent BestWeekEver news »

With the 2012 Grammy Awards upon us and everyone already thrilled for the big Beach Boys / Foster The People / Maroon 5 reunion (finally!), let’s take a second to remind ourselves of something we all already know and complain about every year: The Grammys are, without a doubt, the weirdest and most arbitrary awards show in the entire entertainment world. To re-prove this time-tested theory, we’ve scoured Grammy’s checkered past and compiled some of its most bizarre winners in a desperate search of some meaning for this odd gramophonic statue. From the awesomely-random to the just flat-out terrible, here’s a list of 13 People You Can’t Believe Won A Grammy: 1. Zach Braff Without rehashing the internet’s eminent disdain for Garden State, let’s just take a moment to acknowledge that an actual physical golden gramophone was given to Zach Braff for being the “compilation producer” of the »

- Dan Hopper

7 January 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

(Akira Kurosawa, 1975, Artificial Eye, U)

In the early 1970s Akira Kurosawa's fortunes and spirit were at a low ebb. He'd been dropped by Hollywood from the Pearl Harbor epic Tora! Tora! Tora! in which he had invested much time and energy. His first colour film Dodes'ka-den was a critical and box-office failure. A crisis in the Japanese film industry had made financing his movies impossible. As a result he attempted suicide. But eventually his career was restored by a Soviet invitation to direct a film version of a non-fiction work he'd loved in his youth, and back in the 1940s he had planned a Japanese version that was aborted, partly due to unsuitable locations but mainly because its themes were in conflict with Japanese militarism. Published in 1923, the book is a memoir by the Russian army engineer Captain Vladimir Arsenyev about his friendship with a nomadic hunter, Dersu Uzala, »

- Philip French

3 items from 2012