A.K.
- 1985
- 1h 11m
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7.0/10
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A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.
Takeji Sano
- Self
- (as Takeharu Sano)
Fumisuke Okada
- Self
- (as Fumisake Okada)
Vittorio Dalle Ore
- Self
- (as Vittorio)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis documentary will be included as part of the Criterion Collection DVD edition of Ran (1985).
- Quotes
Chris Marker: [narrating] In this kind of shooting, the first pitfall to avoid is appropriating a beauty that does not belong to us - to play up the lovely, backlit shot. Of course, some of that borrowed beauty will come through anyway, but we shall try to show what we see the way we see it, from *our* eye-level.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu (1994)
- SoundtracksString quartet, A Way Alone, mov.1
Composed by Tôru Takemitsu
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A pleasure for fans of Kurosawa
Chris Marker's elliptical, oblique documentary on the making of Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" is an uneasy blend of hagiography (usual Cahiers du Cinema stuff) and Marker's trademark meditations on the mediating role of technology in memory and the human experience, plus probably aging, and etc., etc., etc. These Gallicisms seem out-of-place; but the philosophies are easily discarded. What makes the film a pleasure are the glimpses we see of Kurosawa's work processes, in addition to all the detail and work that goes into the making of a true epic.
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- cromwell-3
- Jan 25, 2000
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