The filmmaker’s first two features join the Criterion Collection this week, but two of his later films have been dismissed as lesser efforts. Not so fast.
Shudder’s new “A Nightmare Wakes” is the latest attempt to bring the real story of Frankenstein’s creator to the screen – and, once again, it’s a big miss. What keeps going wrong?
This early Kurosawa effort, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a striking slice of postwar noir (and a sharp contrast to the work he's best known for).
The British novelist, who died late last year, leaves a legacy of film adaptations that jettison the girls and gizmos of Bond in favor of complex characterizations and world-weary cynicism.