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This essay, on the debate over decolonising Shakespeare, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 23 March 2025, under the headline “Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?” “My quarrel with the English language,” James Baldwin wrote in his essay Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare, had been “that the language reflected none of my experience.” And so “I condemned him as one of the authors and architects of my oppression...| Pandaemonium
Spike Lee’s newest film, Highest 2 Lowest, has finally made its way to audiences. Now that viewers have gotten a hold of it, the Rotten Tomatoes score has debuted as well, reinforcing the positive response of the film. Functioning as a retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s High And Low, Highest 2 Lowest follows a titan of| mxdwn Movies
Akira Kurosawa remakes are hard to come by, good ones even rarer, but after Highest 2 Lowest's huge success, check out these 3 other Kurosawa remakes.| But Why Tho?
What can world cinema — watching movies made outside of Hollywood — teach us about film as an art form and about life? The post Overcoming the ‘one inch tall barrier of subtitles’ with Akira Kurosawa appeared first on The Stanford Daily.| The Stanford Daily
El amor por un hermano, al fin y al cabo, es una cosa indescifrable. Puede llevarte, llegado el caso, a renunciar hasta a matarte.| Libertad Digital