Kurosawa or the need to see what is unbearable.Charles TsonCinema Criticism Magazine, December 2001, No. 35 "There is nothing better in life than the last moments. Be careful" - from the dialogues of the movie Red Beard.I think Kurosawa's tendency towards action films has made him so popular in the West. "The image must move". This thinking of Satya Jitray (Kurosawa's inspiration) is not recognizable in his style. Although...

Writers Union of America strike; What effect does this strike have on the theater?On Tuesday, May 2, the Writers Guild of America, which is mostly responsible for series and movies made by broadcast platforms such as Netflix, HBO, etc.; They went on strike. The last union strike dates back to 2007. When there were no Netflix and... and the protest was over the rights of writers in bigger cinema works.But gradually and with the emergence of...

Anaïs Nin au Miroir, written by Agnès Desarthe and directed by Élise Vigier,[1] was another production at the 2022 festival that sets off to investigate how an artist and an intellectual are made and function. Set in the backstage of a theatre cabaret, it focused on the enigmatic identity of Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), the French-Cuban writer and poet, known as one of the first female writers to specialize in erotic fiction.A theatre company...

When a man narrates almost the same story over the course of thirty years and through fifty films - the story of the conflict between existence and evil - and in line with this single line, he maintains the same style that is basically and in an exemplary way based on exposing the characters and submerging them. Their performance is based on the mental space of their passions, I think it is hard not to accept the fact that for once we are in...

Recently, The Times Theater reporter went to an Iranian-born artist named Talia Ranjber and determined her relationship with the world's theater. It is true that Talia Ranjber is challengingly trying to go beyond habits and everyday life, but she still shows a deep bond with her community. This point is evident both in the content of the works she creates as a playwright, songwriter, researcher and director, and in their...

I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of COVID related isolation, working on screens, and deprived of live encounters in theatre; but also shattered by the war in Ukraine and realization that the world I have known, specifically in Europe, has dramatically changed. I expected that what I would see at the festival would inevitably speak back to these global disasters, albeit very different...