Ran at the Duke Screen Society

Those who missed Gabor's earlier event at the Chelsea will have a second chance to ignore this monumental masterpiece (free screening).

(Akira Kurosawa, 1985, 162 min, France/Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP)
“Spectacular! Among the most thrilling movie experiences a viewer can have!” – Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times
“★★★★★! Critics' pick! Kurosawa's magisterial epic demands viewing on the big screen!” – Time Out New York
“Kurosawa’s late-period masterpiece, transposing King Lear to period Japan, is one of the most exquisite spectacles ever made, a color-coordinated epic tragedy of carnage and betrayal—passionate, somber, and profound.” – New York Magazine
“A tragedy fed by Shakespeare, Noh, and the samurai epic… a film that shows human brutality, warfare, and suffering as if from the eye of a dispassionate God, seated far above the world’s terror…a great metaphor of the apocalypse, a world in flames whose chaos is made strangely beautiful.” – Michael Wilmington
"They don't make them like Akira Kurosawa's magisterial Ran anymore, but the truth is, they didn't really make them like this regal epic back then either." – Kenneth Turan, LA Times

https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/ran-akira-kurosawa-1985-40th-anniversary-screening
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089881/

Let's gather 15 min before the show (which starts at 19:00) in front of the theater.

Group discussion will follow in the Rubenstein lobby or, if there is enough interest, at some downtown location nearby.