Screening of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954, PG), presented by local film expert George Cromack as part of the Stephen Joseph Theatre's Moviedrome series.
Seven Samurai is coming to the Stephen Joseph Theatre on Friday 27 November, as part of the theatre's Moviedrome series. It's Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic, the one where a village of rice farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits. If you've seen it, you know the drill; if you haven't, it's a touchstone for action movies ever since, with Kurosawa sustaining suspense over a long runtime and giving the whole thing a kind of Shakespearian grandeur. The screening is introduced by local film expert George Cromack, who presents every film in the series.
For a bit of context, Moviedrome is the SJT's own take on the cult BBC4 programme that ran from 1988 to 1994, and the series opens with a 1990 quote from Alex Cox on Moviedrome: The Guide about cult films. The idea is to put on screenings that inspire, excite, agitate and spark conversation, with each month's choice coming from George Cromack. The connective thread is that the films are all offbeat in some way: lower-budget, edgy, political, daring, or containing elements of excess. Seven Samurai fits that bill—a sprawling, high-stakes epic that's as much about the people as it is about the fighting.
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It's a long film, so it's the kind of thing that works better on a big screen than at home. The screening is rated PG, and tickets are £9 whether you book online, at the Box Office or by phone. The theatre is on Westborough in Scarborough, YO11 1JW.
