1948
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 1948.
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Drunken Angel
Shockingly (or perhaps not), Toshirô Mifune delivers one of his best performances in his first Akira Kurosawa-directed film. Takashi Shimura is his equal here and seeing the two Kurosawa legends interact so closely at the top of their games is a real treat, not to mention their narrative relationship as the elder doctor Shimura bluntly… (read more)
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Rope
I’m astonished that, for a director valued for his sense of suspense, Rope is not seen as his peak in that regard. The real-time single room setting combined with the illusion of a single take brings the tension to life in a way few films are capable of achieving. The stakes are so high and… (read more)