Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
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Movie Reviews of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Movie Review: Convinced yet?
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't kid yourself, when you've got a kid frolicking in the Skittle hills with the "primal scream" puppet people and feudal Oompaloompas dancing around hidden by snowflakes, you realize once and for all that Godot is never in fact going to show up and all this waiting around you've been doing was just an excuse to overpopulate the planet with your diseased lies and ever-bloated reflection. And the dogs of war barking from a tunnel and scenes from nuclear winter looking suspiciously like a Macy's Thanksgiving Parade gone awry might cause a lesser man to doubt his sensibilities, but not Kurosawa, by god. For he knows that dying leaf is watching you as it falls and that anguish is measurable only in sines and cosines by this alien race now spying via foliage.Movie Review: "Akira Kurosawa Dreams" - Cinema as a pure audiovisual form of contemplation
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in the latter part of his career, Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams" is a film made for sake of cinema. Only pure image,just pure sound. Movements of caracthers within the frame, the pace between shots, scenes and sequences is in such a way as to provide means of artistic contemplation. A testemony to the collective cinematic memory, this film ranks in the higher ends of cinema as an art form. A look should be done to the sequence dealing with a dream about Vincent Van Gogh. I believe we see here a perfect marriage between Painting an Cinema, as the warm pallette of the Dutch is superbely drawn upon the big screen. The pace is slow, all is there to be seen. An extraordinary filmMovie Review: Stunning Color and Inspiring Imagery
Summary: 5 Stars
I wish I were eloquent enough to convey just how much I loved and apprecciated the feelings this movie evoked in me when I watched it the first time. Each dream or vignette is distinct and yet somehow connected. My favorite was the 'peach orchard' segment. It was so stunningly beautiful it brought me to tears. The colors were unparalleled and the message was clearly yet sensitively conveyed. It is not a movie with the traditional beginning, middle and end. It is separate 'dream' sequences that fit together in an unusual but highly effective way. I love all of Kurosawa's movies, but this is a special piece I will hold in my heart forever.Movie Review: So Glad to See "Dreams" Finally Available!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this film several years ago and even today I recount it's imagery as perhaps among the most beautiful I've even seen. It's certainly not for everyone, but if you are a person who's mind is more sighted toward symbolism rather then realism at times, then this film is unforgettable. The aesthetics are lush and poetic, and the vignette's are touching if you allow yourself to be receptive to what Kurasawa's putting before you. The Van Gogh vignette is particularly beautiful. I've seen several Kurasawa films, enjoyed them all, but "Dreams" really captured my imagination in a very endearing way.Movie Review: One of the best foreign films ever...
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be one of the best foreign films that I have ever seen in my life. Kurosawa made a magical film that will stay with me forever. I will never forget "Sunshine Through the Rain" or "Crows". I loved these two the most. Some of it is almost Lynchian in the way that dream logic is used, but of course, this IS a film about dreams so that is to be expected. Martin Scorsese even has a cameo where he plays Vincent Van Gogh, and he's not all that bad. All in all, I loved this film.I will be adding it to my collection very soon.
HIGHLY recommended!