There's this awesome Kurosawa film Dreams. In school we studied it for it's use of colour, then yesterday I head the funeral march song come on from some room and I ask the guy near the door "Are they watching Dreams?"
"I think so."
"Cool." And I nod in approval. Yes, I only watched it for the first time because in my studies it came up, but it honestly is amazing. I love it and watch it voluntarily now!
Here's some film details:
Dreams (1990)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
You may recognize his name since he's the amazing director of other highly regarded films like Yojimbo and Seven Samurai.
Kurosawa has since passed only two years before the turn of the century. He's arguably Japan's greatest director.
Dreams is somewhat of a mesh of reality and fantasy, as dreams usually are. The film consists of several vignettes into events that may of may not be related. We see some repeating themes and characters, but not necessarily a string of consciousness that binds all the tales together. It's not a really dialogue-heavy film either which can be nice. So much more can be conveyed through the set, lighting, color and the body language. After all, words can only say so much.
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