December 1 ~ Pandora’s Box (1929) Released on December 1, 1929, Louise Brooks embodies the “flapper” spirit of her Lost Generation in this sexually charged and erotic silent melodrama ahead of its time in its depiction of the divide between men and the feminine psyche. It tragically ends in the winter slums of Soho during …
Director: Akira Kurosawa (Japan) Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on March 23, 1910, as the youngest child of seven children by an officer descended from Samurais, and a woman that came from a family of merchants in Omori, Tokyo. Initially, Kurosawa found himself drawn to art. After finishing high-school, he studied at the …
