Akira
Film School
English - July 11, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFilm Reviews TV & Film Arts creativity writing afi afistop100 afitop100 americanfilminstitute creative film filmschool screenwriting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week, we take a peek at Katsuhiro Otomo's masterpiece, and one of the definitive anime films full-stop, Akira. It's over thirty years old now, which is crazy because we're still making this movie. An all-time influential movie, it's up there with Bladerunner in terms of how many movies owe a debt to the way they depict the near-future. So, after all these years, how does it hold up?