Movie Meetup — Kurosawa’s Ran — Meet from 10:45 am, Film at 11:30 am

We are going to see Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 film, Ran.

Note that this screening is earlier than usual:

• We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 10:45 am, to say hello and chat, ready to go into the cinema at around 11:15 am.
• Afterwards, we'll have time to stop and talk about the film.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.

ABOUT THE FILM

"Akira Kurosawa’s spectacular epic transplants King Lear from Celtic Britain to feudal Japan. In its epic scope and expert execution, Ran can be seen as a culmination of the great Japanese director’s filmmaking career; a late triumph which he planned and refined over several years.

"By fusing the narrative – about an arrogant King who’s betrayed by his resentful children – with non-naturalistic Japanese aesthetics from the samurai epic and Noh theatre, Kurosawa crafts an arresting and singular cinematic (re)vision of Shakespearean drama. Epic and bloody spectacle is underscored by a sombre mood of loss, regret and mortality, making Ran both enthralling and disturbing."
— BFI Summary

"Kurosawa pulled out all the stops with Ran, his obsession with loyalty and his love of expressionistic film techniques allowed to roam freely."
★★★★★ G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Examiner

"Though big in physical scope and of a beauty that suggests a kind of drunken, barbaric lyricism, Ran has the terrible logic and clarity of a morality tale seen in tight close-up, of a myth that, while being utterly specific and particular in its time and place, remains ageless, infinitely adaptable."
★★★★★ Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Ran is a great, glorious achievement.
★★★★★ Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com