Akira Kurosawa: Best Director Ever?

Who you got - Fellini? Welles? Hitchcock? Cassavetes? Godard? Cameron? Shyamalan?

Either way, Happy 100th Birthday to Kurosawa... so let's dance!



Guardian Blog has got a good retrospective of 10 of his essential films: link.

Even Google gives props.

Happy Birthday Gloria Steinem

Read her very long wiki page.

Happy Birthday: Ben Gazzara

The amazing actor Ben Gazzara turns 78 today. One of the best voices and laughs in the business.

You may know him as the porn producer Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski, where the Dude accuses that he "treats objects like women, man!"

Though, his real genius is exposed in the films he made with John Cassavetes. Husbands, Opening Night, and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Here's the trailer for the latter:


It's creepier, and even more amazing than it looks.

Also, check Gazzara out on the Dick Cavett show with Cassavetes and Peter Falk. Talk shows were really a lot better when you could smoke and be drunk on TV.