Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon wasn't a big hit when it was released in Japan, but when it won a Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival it opened the floodgates for Japanese cinema into the cinemas and film festivals of the west. No less than Ed Sullivan wrote that "the direction, the photography and the performances will jar open your eyes," and within a year films by Mizoguchi and Ozu joined Fellini, Bergman and Rossellini in the art houses. It took barely ten years from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and VJ Day for Japan to go from vicious, possibly subhuman enemy to a culture worth studying and admiring. This shouldn't be surprising; Japan was already in the habit of rapidly transforming both itself and its relationship with the world, and ...
Steyn fields questions on many topics, starting with jury deliberations in the Trump kangaroo court...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Steyn on the UK's future, and the general election's irrelevance to it...
A special Memorial Day edition on battle, sacrifice and remembrance - from the Civil War to the Great War to the unwon wars of our own time...
The convoluted tale of the biggest hit to come out of Africa...
Rick McGinnis on Alice Faye and Tyrone Power In Old Chicago...
Steyn revisits a far-sighted interview by the Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson...
Steyn on hard landings, days of shame, and American "assurances"...
Stephen McIntyre does the actual math on Ofcom's findings re Steyn's vaccine analysis...
A cavalcade of hits with Mark and his guests, including Andy Williams, Bananarama, Paul Simon,, Lulu, Men at Work, Artie Shaw and many more...
Mark and chums with a musical special live on stage at Hillsdale College...
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
The Mark Steyn Club is celebrating its seventh birthday this month, and we thank all our old friends from May 2017 who've decided to hop on board for our eighth year. Ray, a First Week Founding Member from Oregon, writes: I feel honored to be an early member of The Mark Steyn Club and to play a small part in supporting you in both the political & entertainment spheres of your life. Tales For Our Time has brought me the greatest pleasure and I love the musical write-ups and poetry as well. Thank you for standing up to the tyrannical, self-righteous liars who are in authority. I enthusiastically renew my membership. Thank you, Ray. On the other hand, much as we cherish the old-timers, we're thrilled that, after all this time, we're still ...
Episode Twenty-Seven of our current Tale for Our Time - Agatha Christie's second novel The Secret Adversary...
Part Twenty-Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time>: Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary...
Part Twenty-Five of our vernal diversion, The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Part Twenty-Four of Agatha Christie's second novel - and the first to feature Tommy and Tuppence - set against the turbulent and revolutionary politics of Europe after the Great War...
Part Twenty-Three of a rare Agatha Christie adventure set against the turbulent politics of the time, the early 1920s...
Welcome to Part Twenty-Two of our current Tale for Our Time - a vernal diversion by Agatha Christie that looks like becoming one of the all-time most popular entries to the series...
Part Twenty-One of our latest audio adventure: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Part Twenty of The Secret Adversary, the latest entry to our series Tales for Our Time...
Episode Nineteen of our current Tale for Our Time - Agatha Christie's second published novel The Secret Adversary...
Part Eighteen of our serialisation of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Part Seventeen of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Episode Sixteen of our vernal diversion by Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary...
Welcome to the sixty-second audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into the work of the world's bestselling author, Agatha Christie...