I hope you’ll see Kurosawa’s Ikiru, sometime, which you probably know is its inspiration. I don’t like to do movie + remake comparison film festivals, but it is one of those movies that should be seen for itself.
Last night we watched 1975’s The Legend of Lizzie Borden, which held up pretty well. Despite its Kung Fu/The Waltons-era production values, it captures the 1890’s morose darkness of that time period, found in Ambrose Bierce, Steven Crane and Eugene O’Neill. The explanation it gives for how the killer was never punished is a lame imagining that “coincidentally” adds some softcore porn. (Maybe I should do a comparison film fest and see how the Christina Ricci version pulled it off).