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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Kurosawa's

Ran / Chaos (1985)

This is the samurai version of King Lear.

It is pretty good.

Ebert has a a second review that takes an historical angle on the film.

This is the kind of film that I watch intently because I think that I am supposed to.

There is no doubt about the quality, the integrity, the artistry.

And it is not "audiencentric".

It is long. It is operatic. We know the story.

The 160 minutes do not melt away as we watch. At least not for me.

But I am glad that I saw it and it is indisputably a 5 out of Netflix5 and I think that you ought to see it too.

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