183. Russian director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s US film “Runaway Train” (1985): An unusual Hollywood film that intensely deals with philosophy and the choices one makes in life
Lady Anne: “ No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity ” King Richard: “ But I know none, therefore am no beast.” --a conversation from Shakespeare’s Richard III, a ppearing as an end-quote in Runaway Train R unaway Train is a remarkable work from Hollywood. The film was both a box office success and a critically acclaimed film. It is directed by the Russian maestro Andrei Tarkovsky’s classmate in film school Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky was no ordinary classmate of the legendary Tarkovsky—he co-scripted as many as 6 screenplays with Tarkovsky, in including two classics of world cinema directed by Tarkovsky: Ivan’s Childhood (1962) and Andrei Rublev (1966). He even acted in the former. But Runaway Train ’s original script was sculpted by another giant of cinema, Japan’s maestro Ak...