History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and many others). Unfortunately, as fantastic as these ...

Akira Kurosawa made movies from the 1940s until the 1990s, with classics like Ran and High and Low being the best he made in ...

Forty years on from its release, war film Ran continues to prove popular among movie enthusiasts and is available on the ...

Akira Kurosawa was a cultural Commodore Perry. His 1950 Rashômon opened the West to Japanese movies. From there, he became one of the giants of ’50s art-house importing, mentionable only with Bergman ...

Akira Kurosawa could very well be the single most influential filmmaker of the 20th century. With the possible exception of Alfred Hitchcock, no filmmaker has been more frequently shouted out by ...

Originally published in The Los Angeles Times in 1991, here is a scintillating conversation between two late, great masters. Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died in April of this year, ...

Spike Lee will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, where the Oscar-winning ...

Spike Lee opened up about his decades-long friendship with Denzel Washington. The pair have made five films together. Read ...

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the poster for its upcoming 77th edition which pays tribute to Japanese master Akira Kurosawa and his late career feature Rhapsody in August. The image shows a ...