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  Dreams (1990 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dreams — aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Yume (夢), I Saw a Dream Like This, Konna yume wo mita, or Such Dreams I Have Dreamed — is a 1990 portmanteau film based on actual dreams of the film's director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life.
At the end of the sequence (and the film), a funeral procession for an old woman takes place in the village, which instead of mourning, the people celebrate joyfully as the proper end to a good life.
This segment was filmed at the Daio Wasabi farm in the Nagano Prefecture.
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 Dream Videophile by Deirdre Barrett - International Association for the Study of Dreams
The film is most concerned with the monk's sidekick, The King of the Monkeys, who angers the Goddess Kuan Yin and is flung to a far corner of the earth and transformed into a man, doesn't remember that he's been either a monkey or a king.
Unlike most dream-related films which tend to be fanciful or surreal, this one is a tight mystery in the Hitchcock tradition, with the emphasis on waking secondary process analysis of the dream.
Dreams as preparation of death is discussed as a concept in diverse cultures from the Australian concept death as return to the Dreamtime to Rev. Jeremy Taylor leading a dream group for elderly Californians to the Dali Lama discussing dreams in relationship to the Bardo state of the Tibetans.
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 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (JAPAN 1990)
Eight short films with overlapping themes and characters based on the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is comprised of eight short films, each featuring a character named "I," who we are to assume is Kurosawa himself.
Dreams is Kurosawa's most personal work, and when it's over the viewer might feel like they've just met the man who delivered this work of art, much like "I" was somehow able to meet Van Gogh in one of his paintings.
www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/akira_kurosawa_dreams.htm   (453 words)

  
 Cinema of Japan at Film-North, Kurosawa
The film as a whole consists of their variations and permutations, which are tightly interconnected in fuguelike construction.
The way the dreams are presented make their interpretation very open ended and with each viewing I have had a different interpretation of many of the dreams.
This dream is finished by joyous funeral procession which works as an excellent bookend to the film and is very reminiscent of the Fox wedding in the first dream.
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 Amazon.com: Dreams (1990) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The film is a succession of sweeping dramatic gestures and lofty incantations performed in an atmosphere of hushed solemnity.
The second half of "Dreams" is weak: the fifth episode, "Crows," about a fantasy encounter with van Gogh, is a thin conceit; and the remaining three segments are all static, self-conscious, and...
For example, in the Watermills dream, the vocal narration (dialog) tends to drag on and overshadow the effect of the visuals.
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 GreenCine | product main - Dreams (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The fourth dream deals with a man (Akira Terao) -- a Kurosawa stand-in complete with the director's trademark floppy white hat -- who encounters ghosts of Japan's militaristic past in a forlorn tunnel.
The sixth and seventh dreams venture into nightmare territory -- one deals with a nuclear meltdown that threatens Japan while the other concerns post-nuclear mutants.
It is pretty clearly an experimental film on Kurosawa's part, complete with shaky dolly shots that belie it's budgetary constraints.
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 Dreams (1990 film) articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His early work helped to bring Australian film to world attention; his later films, made in Hollywood, mingle American movie technique with the style of European art films.
Kurosawa, Akira KUROSAWA, AKIRA [Kurosawa, Akira], 1910-98, Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and producer, b.
Fellini, Federico FELLINI, FEDERICO [Fellini, Federico], 1920-93, Italian film director.
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 Goodfellas (1990) - Film Talk
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The source materials for each of the films were equally different as the films are in what their main focuses are.
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 RicepaperOnline | Magazine for Creative Asian Canadians
The film consists of eight parables based on Kurosawa’s dreams, with the common theme that the collapse of human nature and the environment is the result of man’s stupidity, greed and laziness.
The mother instructs the boy to seek forgiveness from the foxes, though “you must be ready to die.” The scene in which the boy walks through a vibrant meadow searching for the foxes beneath the rainbow is an example of Kurosawa’s visually stunning imagery.
The film ends on a life-affirming note as a colourful funeral procession passes by while celebrating the passing of a woman who had led a naturally long life.
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 DVD Talk Forum - Best Film of 1990 (ongoing survey)
Please start your post with your #1 film from 1990 (try to limit it to one - after all, that's the point - two at the most (I'll split the vote)), and yes, discussions are more than welcome!
Dreams, I watched in film classes last year and absolutely dispised.
I can understand your hatred of dreams, but I rather enjoyed the poetry of the film and I dug what kurosawa was trying to say with it.
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 Yume (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I saw this film for the first time in 1993 and it was placed forever in my mind as one of my greatest cinematic experiences.
It is very artistic in that the cinematography carries a lot of the story and some may become bored with it.
This film needs to be seen in the letterbox format as it was intended.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0100998   (439 words)

  
 Dreams (1990) (Yume)
Kurosawa made a handful of films in the immediate post-War period but did not gain recognition until the remarkable international success of the classic Rashomon (1950).
Surprisingly though it is one film in Kurosawa's canon that has gone almost unrecognized.
But viewed as a progression of dream images, it is a film of successively overwhelming and beautiful parts.
www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/yume.htm   (924 words)

  
 REVIEWS IN BRIEF
All the poems are responses to "Dreams," Akira Kurosawa's 1990 film of eight dreams that explore our precarious relationship to the environment.
The film concludes with a utopian rant about living in harmony with nature.
In his preface, editor Michael Cross suggests that the preachiness and heavy-handed tragedy of Kurosawa's film are at odds with the aesthetics of the New Brutalists, whose project is to challenge received notions of reality and language.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/27/RVGOH773T11.DTL   (305 words)

  
 Dreams (1990)
Akira Kurosawa's DREAMS consists of eight short films based on actual dreams of the director.
Finally the gentle "Village of the Watermills" brings the film to a quiet, pastoral end.
While many of the middle sequences are eerie and surreal, the first two films and the finale ("Sunshine Through the Rain," "The Peach Orchard," and "Village of the Watermills") are gorgeously lush and serene.
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 Total Recall (1990) - Film Talk
Best scene EVER in this film is when Arnold uses some poor schmos body as a shield in a gun battle on a escalator.
Never once did I ever question if this was a dream or real, all that matters is everyone is out to kill Arnold but he is unstoppable.
This film may not have been the truest adaptation of Dick's short story, but to me it is a fun ride with some twists to the story which makes you wonder what is real and what isn't!
www.film-talk.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=11327   (1729 words)

  
 Amazon.com: In Dreams (1999 Film): Music: Elliot Goldenthal,Elliot Goldenthal,Edward Shearmur,Jonathan Sheffer,Eric ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I'm a big fan of Goldenthal and it's interesting to see what he does from film to film (his collaborations with Neil Jordan produce some of his best stuff).
His style is a little looser here, but still familiar (there's still the thunderous brass and tragic strings)even allowing for a little experimentation with guitars.
Dream baby, the song at the end, music by Goldenthal, lyrics by Neil Jordan, is an odd, lilting hymn to end on but utterly beautiful.
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 Ishiro Honda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ishiro Honda, Toho's most renowned director of science fiction films, is most famous for his numerous entries in the Godzilla series, but Honda also did a great deal of films in other genres during his career at Toho.
Honda has also worked with the famous Akira Kurosawa on numerous occasions, and would actually come out of a self imposed retirement to direct several films with Kurosawa, including segments in his 1990 film Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.
Toho is the owner of all copyrights and trademarks in its respective films and characters, and all of its rights are expressly reserved.
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 Dreams [1990] - Compare prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Made toward the end of his life, this film by Akira Kurosawa is at once amazingly beautiful and incredibly slow going.
An anthology of imagery and lessons, Dreams focuses on the ways life both gives and takes away, almost with the same hand.
Nonlinear to the point of expressionism, it's a film only for the Kurosawa enthusiast who feels the need to see all of his films.
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 World of Reading: Journey of Hope
Academy Award Winner of 1990 best foreign language film based on the true story of one man’s dreams for a better life.
Haydar and his wife Meryem are poor Kurdish villagers living with their 7 children in Turkey, dreaming of a "paradise" in Switzerland.
In Kurdish, Turkish, German and Italian Unrated, the film contains mature subject matter.
www.wor.com /catalog/1411.asp   (134 words)

  
 The Middle Stage
The director's interest in Van Gogh is most evident in the storyboards for his 1990 film, Dreams, in which a fictional Kurosawa steps back in time to watch the painter in action, and then walks through several of his paintings.
In this, it offers a lesson in the circularity of artistic influences, with Van Gogh himself having been much inspired by the work of Japanese artists, particularly Hiroshige.
Where painting is an unavoidably static medium, film celebrates motion, speed and action.
middlestage.blogspot.com /2004/12/celluloid-painter.html   (266 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | | Movie painters quiz
The 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy featured a square-jawed Charlton Heston giving a decent impression of...
In the 1997 film Basquiat, which famous singer played the part of peroxide pop artist Andy Warhol?
Kirk Douglas was Oscar-nominated for his performance as tortured artist Vincent Van Gogh in the 1957 film Lust for Life.
film.guardian.co.uk /quiz/questions/0,5952,1123160,00.html   (315 words)

  
 Black Maria Film + Video Festival Award Winners By Film Title (All Years)
Alaya: Nathaniel Dorsky; film; Festival: 1988/89 - Eighth Annual
Bywandering Films: Susanne Cockrell; film; Festival: 1993/94 - Thirteenth Annual
Film Wipe Film: Paul Glabicki; film; Festival: 1983/84 - Third Annual
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 Black Maria Film + Video Festival Award Winners By Filmmaker (All Years)
More than one person or organization may have been associated with a particular film.
In these cases, the film is referenced again under the other names involved.
The Amish: Not to Be Modern; film; Festival: 1985/86 - Fifth Annual
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 At-A-Glance Film Reviews: 1990-1999
The Final Sacrifice (1990) (aka: "Quest For the Lost City")
Hands of a Murderer (1990) (aka: "Sherlock Holmes and the Prince of Crime")
The King's Mistress (1990) (aka: "The King's Whore")
www.rinkworks.com /movies/i/1990s.shtml   (739 words)

  
 SCREEN WORLD 1990 FILM AN
This is the comprehensive pictorial and statistical record of the 1989 movie season.
This volume features such notable films as DRIVNG MISS DAISY, FIELD OF DREAMS, BATMAN, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, PARENTHOOD, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, SEA OF LOVE and DEAD POETS
This volume features such notable films as DRIVNG MISS DAISY, FIELD OF DREAMS, BATMAN, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, PARENTHOOD, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, SEA OF LOVE and DEAD POETS SOCIETY.
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 Backstreet Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Greg Vail has recorded for hundreds of Commercials and Shows for TV, Cable, Radio and Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jazz Saxophone Player Greg Vail — Recording Credits for Film, Television, Cable and Radio Commercials.
“Molder Of Dreams” 1990 Christian Film of the Year for Focus On The Family
Smooth Jazz TV Shows with Peter White have aired many times, nation wide.
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