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‘Highest 2 Lowest' Review: Spike Lee's Kurosawa-Inspired Kidnapping Drama Isn't So Much a Remake as a Manifesto
There's enormous risk in remaking a movie like "High and Low." Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the bar high with his 1963 ...
Trying to analyze a filmmaking legend using Chobani yogurt
Julia Izumi’s “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)” at Woolly Mammoth is a ...
Spike Lee on the collision of his two passions, the Knicks and cinema, in Cannes
Some of Spike Lee's most deeply felt passions — filmmaking and the New York Knicks — have collided at the Cannes Film ...
Denzel Washington's "unpredictable" crime thriller debuts with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating
Denzel Washington 's "unpredictable" new crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest has debuted with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. The film from director Spike Lee is a new interpretation of Akira ...
A complete list of Akira Kurosawa’s 33 favourite American movies
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, director of 'Seven Samurai' and 'Rashomon', once picked his favourite American movies by the likes of John Ford and Scorsese.