Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics) IFI@Home 'Shoah and 4 Films After

'Shoah and 4 Films After Shoah' Director: Claude Lanzmann (1985-2013) Eureka Masters of Cinema 4-Disc Blu-ray Box w/ 60-page book

Itami’s 1962 debut short film

'Kiss Me Deadly' Director: Robert Aldrich (1955) Criterion collection restoration

attached to the Texas frontier in 1879 to protect settlers from attacks by Apaches

'making of' and director's commentary

Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics) IFI@Home 'Shoah and 4 Films After'Seven Samurai' by Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics paperback) A celebratory study of Kurosawa's film from a writer with expertise in Japanese cinema and history. Mellen contextualises the film both in Japanese cinema and Kurosawa's career while exploring the story's roots in medieval history. She explores the masterful use of visual language to create an elegiac work.