DVD Extra: 'Throne of Blood'

Criterion drops Kurosawa's Japanized 'Macbeth' on Blu-ray

"...its name aloud; however, once you watch Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, you may begin to think about Shakespeare’s..."

Jan. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Hide the lasagna: The fat, lazy cat – and his doppelgänger – is back.

"...Billy Connolly and Ian Abercrombie. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Game of Thrones Is Coming to SXSW. Let the Bloodletting Begin.

Hit HBO show launches massive blood drive, SXSW activation

"...How much do you love Game of Thrones? Enough to open a vein?..."

Feb. 19, 2019 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

The SXSW Game of Thrones Blood Drive Is More Fun Than the Red Wedding

Bleed for the Throne jump-starts nation's largest promo blood drive

"...this year they’ve gone all-out to promote the final bloody season of Game of Thrones. Partnering with the American..."

March 8, 2019 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

DVDanger: Of Flesh, Blood and Boners

"The Final Member" gets phallic, plus "Dracula" and "Ravenous" bite

"...errand. But what if at least a little bit of you can go on, at least after the rest..."

June 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kevin Curtin's Top 100 Austin Albums of 2020

Why stop at 10 when 10 times that still only scratches the surface of year-topping ATX releases?

"...hundred albums emerged from Austin artists in 2020. One of COVID-19's undisputed truths is that art matters – on..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

AFF Crowning Game of Thrones Showrunners

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss join prestigious roster of honorees

"...The blood on the ground from Battle of Winterfell has barely..."

May 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

‘Game of Thrones’ Gets a Dowager Countess

And other non-spoilery bits about Sunday’s season 3 premiere

"...When it comes to labeling HBO’s epic series Game of Thrones, “fantasy” isn’t a misnomer – its call sheet,..."

March 29, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Game of Thrones Red Cross Blood Drive

"...In anticipation of Game of Thrones final season, HBO and the American..."

March 8, 2019 Photo Gallery

From Unknown to Throne

Sugar and spice from Austin's Jelly Queens

"...holiday season? You couldn't do better than a jar of organic, locally made sweetness from Austin's own Jelly Queens...."

Dec. 13, 2013 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Trump’s Twitter Library, a Ferris Wheel of Cheese, and More From the Wide, Weird World of SXSW

Festival-adjacent events abound!

"...panels. It also opens the door to a lot of crazy shit. Here are some of the more promising-sounding..."

March 8, 2019 Features Feature by Kimberley Jones

Eve of Destruction

Lawrence Wright on 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9 / 11'

"...Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, a history of the Islamist movement and al Qaeda up to the..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Books Feature by Taylor Holland

(Re)learning Japanese

One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature. The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who stumbled into acting after his grizzled mug and gruff mien won a talent search. Together, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune created some of the Japanese cinema's most enduring treasures.

"...One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature trained as a painter and apprenticed to director..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Speak the Speech

"...would be hard to sit here and argue against Throne of Blood and say that simply because Kurosawa chose..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Ran

Kurosawa uses Shakespeare's King Lear as a template, but in Ran Lear's three scheming daughters are sons, and the action is transposed to a mythic, dreamlike, feudal Japan. Like an adrenalized fever dream of ultimate power gone awry, Ran reveals Kurosawa's grasp of visual splendor at its most powerful.

"...and Hitoshi Ueki. Akira Kurosawa's1985 film Ran is one of the 10 best films ever made, period. I'll brook..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Arcade Awards Announced

Samurai Gunn slashes & shoots its way to victory

"...With a long history of absurdist awards for their showcase games, the Fantastic Arcade..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...aspiring movie-makers, and dilettantes who had forsaken the comforts of both their creative approaches and their soft pillows to..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa and longtime lead Toshiro Mifune together interpreted Macbeth to legendary effect.

"...Throne of BloodCriterion Collection, $39.95 So it's come to this:..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Riddick

In this third outing, the science-fiction antihero played by Vin Diesel is stranded on an inhospitable planet.

"...Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Jordi Mollà, Matt Nable, Katee Sackhoff, Bokeem Woodbine, Dave Bautista, Raoul Trujillo, Nolan Gerard Funk..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The 2006 Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Schedule: May 24-Sept. 8

"...Admission – tickets are on sale on the day of the show at the Paramount Theatre Box Office (713..."

May 12, 2006 Screens Feature

Page Two

"...don't understand, then stares out at the rain and offers, "You should be careful what you wish for ..."..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Kurosawa/Mifune Retrospective Schedule

"...Friday-Saturday, Feb. 7-8: High and Low (1963) and Throne of Blood (1957)..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature

Yojimbo & Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa

A double re-release from one of cinema's greatest director-actor duos

"...If I don't get away soon, I'll be going blood simple like the natives." In 1929, that fork in..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Screens Review

Olivier's Shakespeare

Now that 'Deadwood' lies murdered in the mud, Shakespeare is the only solace.

"...– does not. "Artificial," calls it the former governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Richard III's essential commentary..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Extra Special

Gift guide

"...soon, Ran's staging is largely representative, Kurosawa's continued use of traditional Noh theatrics still acting as a shorthand for..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Bad Sleep Well

Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing

"...sensei's facility with shorter, sharper blades (2½ hours instead of three or four). As laid out in an auxiliary..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Blast the Canon

Scotland, PA and Maura Tierney's foul-mouthed, oversexed Lady M

"...First of all, you're too quick to belly-ache -- you're winning,..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

In Print

Alain Silver's book is back and better than ever after 30 years. Still, it's not nearly as potent as Hanzo the Razor.

"...I were having, he recommended the three-film series Sword of Justice, about Hanzo, a renegade constable. I had never..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Meet Accomplice, the Austin Startup Paving the Way Toward an Immersive Future

Striving for a world with no more boring experiences

"...to. Marketing has hijacked the term whenever the use of digital experiences ham-fistedly intersects with something that must be..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

Outlaw King

Chris Pine aptly fills the crown of Robert the Bruce

"...There's a famous, possibly apocryphal story about a screening of Mel Gibson's trash historical fantasy Braveheart, that there was..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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