Lecture Series "Film Noir: High and Low" with Billy Flesch

High and Low (1963) is among Kurosawa's very greatest movies. Although at first blush it looks quite different from Seven Samurai, also starring Toshiro Mifune, it was nevertheless just as influential a movie and inaugurated the police procedurals that have become so popular ever since.  But it's far more than that, and its exploration of love, loyalty, and psychology is extraordinary.   (And you've never seen Mifune play a role as different from his performance in Seven Samurai.)  Participants should read Ed McBain's short 87th precinct novel King's Ransom (1959) beforehand, but we'll mainly be going through the movie scene by scene.

Dates:

• Monday, August 11
• Tuesday, August 12
• Wednesday, August 13
• Thursday, August 14
• Friday, August 15

Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm ET

Location: Zoom