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This week, this Music Box hosts a special screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, the Japanese director’s excellent Macbeth adaptation, to coincide with Chicago Opera Theater’s own forthcoming staging of the Shakespeare play. Throne of Blood‘s recent digital restoration was created in 2K resolution from the original 35mm fine-grain master print, and it’s said to be among the better digital prints out there today. This is an exciting opportunity to see the film in a new light while also getting a sneak peak of what COT has in store, as excerpts from its Macbeth are also previewed.
- Ikiru (1952) A continuation of Drunken Angel‘s postwar themes, this moral parable, considered by many to be Kurosawa’s masterpiece, avoids the director’s usual preachiness and elitism, offering instead a humanist story of regret and redemption that ranks among the most sincere and heartbreaking of any film in history.
