Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 181: Tue Jul 1

I Live in Fear (Kurosawa, 1955): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm

This 35mm presentation also screens on July 11th at the Prince Charles. Details here.

Chicago Reader review:
A 1955 feature by Akira Kurosawa and one of his most underrated, starring Toshiro Mifune as an aging patriarch who, frightened by the prospect of a nuclear war, decides to sell his family business and move to a farm in Brazil. Along with Kurosawa’s sublime Rhapsody in August, which also deals with the atomic bomb, this was probably the most poorly received work of his entire career, but I persist in finding it among the most memorable: eerie, troubling, and haunting.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and and above) are the film's theme tune.

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