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from The Guardian : Seven Samurai tops critics' poll of best foreign-language films
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I was learning to use my lap top with the aid of a Scottish IT expert called Ian who gave people lessons and assistant withn their PCs at home in the south of Spain .
I mentioned having seen this film and he said .... yes i know this film very well .... it is all about the defence of "civil society "and the concept of policing it ie keeping the law and order.
Then later i heard other things about the defence of the so called" rabbits"" meaning people are generally vulnerable ..... from others .
The Topic was intriguing because , like many other people i took the daily tranquility of life as a normal daily blessing .... but perhaps the message of the film was saying .... the Samurai worked so hard to defend the farmers and by doing this ie their job .... they didnt get anything out of it (and perhaps they should have been less noble and taken stuff from the farmers as their payment for risking their lives .... ( it seemed as if the villagers were ungrateful and trying to be too greedy for their own good).
There is a legend in Persian mythology about a king who had two serpents living on his shoulders and everyday he had to feed fresh young humans to these .... he owned everything in the country and yet he suffered from this ailment ......
Kaveh the Blacksmith (Persian: کاوه آهنگر – Kāve ye Āhangar; Kurdish: Kaway Asngar), also known as Kawa or the Blacksmith of Isfahan,[1][2] is a mythical figure in the Iranian mythology who leads a popular uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahāk (Aži Dahāk). His story is narrated in the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran, by the 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi.
Kāveh was, according to ancient legends, a blacksmith who launched a national uprising against the evil foreign tyrant Zahāk, after losing two of his children to serpents of Zahāk. Kāveh expelled the foreigners and re-established the rule of good.[3] Many followed Kāveh to the Alborz
i mean to say that sometimes security is just not possible when you have a double headed serpent living on your shoulders ....
Seven Samurai tops critics' poll of best foreign-language films
Akira Kurosawa epic beats Bicycle Thieves to top of BBC’s 100-strong list that includes just four female-directed films
The BBC culture website polled more than 200 “film experts” from more than 40 countries, including critics, academics and curators to create a top-100 list. Seven Samurai beat Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Tokyo Story (1953), which came in second and third respectively. Another Kurosawa film, the multi-perspective crime fable Rashomon (1950), was in fourth place, while his Ikiru (1952) and Ran (1985) also made the list, at 72 and 79.
However, the most repeatedly acclaimed film-makers were Ingmar Bergman and Luis Buñuel, who each recorded five entries.
Best in French … La Règle du jeu, 1939 (AKA The Rules of the Game). Photograph: Allstar/The Criterion Collection
French proved the most popular non-English cinematic language, with 27 films (led by Jean Renoir’s 1939 masterwork The Rules of the Game), followed by 12 in Mandarin and 11 in Japanese and Italian.
Only a handful of films directed by women made the list, despite 45% of the voters being female. The highest rated is Chantal Akerman’s 1975 art-film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, at number 14. The other female directors in the list are Claire Denis (with Beau Travail at number 43) and Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), and Kátia Lund, the co-director of the 2002 Brazilian drama City of God.
Top female director … Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
Gabrielle Kelly, editor of Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through, told the BBC: “Film studies have always focused on men because men have controlled most aspects of film, ever since it became a profitable business in the US.”
The results showed that it will take time for more recent films to accrue critical favour: the newest film in the top 100 is Michael Haneke’s Amourfrom 2012 at number 69, while the only other film made this decade is Iranian Oscar-winner A Separation (2011), at number 21. The top 20 is notably light on films made after the 1970s, with only In the Mood for Love (2000), Farewell My Concubine (1993) and A City of Sadness (1989) registering at numbers nine, 12, and 18 respectively.
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