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Movie Meetup — Kurosawa's Throne of Blood — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:40

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Movie Meetup — Kurosawa's Throne of Blood — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:40

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We're going to see Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth, Throne of Blood.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.

ABOUT THE FILM

"Akira Kurosawa's remarkable 1957 restaging of Macbeth in samurai and expressionist terms is unquestionably one of his finest works -- charged with energy, imagination, and, in keeping with the subject, sheer horror."
— Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"Kurosawa's vision of Macbeth as a samurai is still a stunning reading, not merely of Shakespeare, but of history, power and sexual politics."
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Throne Of Blood defeats categorisation. It remains a landmark of visual strength, permeated by a particularly Japanese sensibility, and is possibly the finest Shakespearean adaptation ever committed to the screen."
— Derek Malcolm, The Guardian

"The dominant theme is the futile struggle of the self against nature. Kurosawa implicitly condemns the doomed battle of human pride and desire against an indifferent universe of overpowering scope, weight and persistence, but also mourns the suffering of the human spirit tricked into waging that battle."
— Robert N. Watson

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Meet in the café / bar, Watershed
1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside · Bristol, BS1 5TX