Global Film Resources

 

John Ford

 

The Heroic Past in John Ford

The Myth of the West in John Ford

2 Films about 2 Books about 2 Priests

 

John Huston

 

John Huston's The Misfits, The Failure of the Western Ethos

 

 

 

 

Akira

Kurosawa

 

Akira Kurosawa's Samurai Meet the American West

The Moral Problematic in Rashomon

75 Days to Live in Ikiru

A Japanese Macbeth and Throne of Blood

Red Beard and Looking on Pain

The Super Samurai and the Anti Hero

Ran and the Failure of the Samurai Ethic

 

 

Saints and Artists

 

At Every Epoch under a Different Disguise in Orpheus

Three Danish Encounters with a Spiritual Reality

Roberto Rossellini

 

Variations on Sacrifical Love

Blaise Pascal and the Search for Historical and Artistic Truth

 

 

 

Tarkovsky

 

Tarkovsky's Rublev, Art is a Form of Prayer

Solaris Compared

Discussion Questions for Tarkovsky's Stalker

Tarkovsky on Nostalghia

 

Robert

Neame

Horse's Mouth as Comic Hero

Andrezej Wajda

 

Andrezej Wajda's Man of Marble and Iron

Wajda on Censorship

 

Kiarostami

 

Kiarostami's Close-Up
 

Sanctifying the Tomb of Tarkovsky