Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Movies for Thursday, March 23, 2017

The movies for today, March 23, 2017, include a classic Japanese drama, a classic western, and a disaster film.



Rashomon (1950) is a classic film directed
by Akira Kurosawa of Japan, who was born
March 23, 1910.  It relates several
varying accounts of a rape/murder.  The
movie was awarded an Oscar for Best
Foreign Film.




Rashomon







The great screen actress Joan Crawford
was born this date in 1905.  The western
Johnny Guitar (1954) is one of her
best movies.  The film is listed on the
National Film Registry.



Johnny Guitar








March 23, 1989, is known as Near Miss Day,
the day the Earth and a large asteroid had a
"near miss."  Armageddon (1998) is a disaster
movie about an asteroid heading directly for
Earth.




Armageddon
























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