Muriels Hall of Fame, Class of 2014: The Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

"It is an adventure film AND a character study AND epic AND intimate AND an essay on how to live a moral life in a way that makes the segregation of our current cinematic landscape look petty indeed. Like all great cinema, The Seven Samurai makes the boundaries between genre and art cinema melt away and look utterly arbitrary." ~ Bryce Wilson

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