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HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, An Autumn Afternoon, by Yasukiro...
Yasujiro Ouzu's Autumn Afternoon (sometimes titled The Taste of Mackerel) is, quite, simply, a masterpiece. Its muted color and rigorously simple camerawork are consistently a joy to watch, and its emotional insight into post-war Japan is consistently moving. Little more could be said without delving into the intricate simplicity of this wonderful film...
There was one set of statistics that oil executives were not at all reluctant to disclose last week. Largely as a result of the Arab oil embargo, imports of crude into the U.S. declined by 10% from the week before, and are now running 22% behind the early autumn. Treasury Secretary George Shultz last week said that Middle East troop disengagement (see THE WORLD) would lead to a relaxation of that embargo; but he did not predict when. Saudi officials have declared that they would keep it clamped on until the Israelis agreed to a complete pullback behind 1967 borders...
...Autumn Afternoon. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, his 53rd and final film, made in 1963 and released here for the first time this year. It is a profoundly simple movie about an aged widower hanging onto and inhibiting an only daughter who has reached marriageable age. An older Japanese culture of tradition and ceremony is giving way before a newer Japan caught up in a mad scramble for things: golf clubs, refrigerators handbags. It is a realized testament to the Ozu art (Tokyo Story is the best known of his films); the still camera hugs the floor, the rhythmed sound...
...casualties of the Yom Kippur War was the growing ecumenical spirit between Christians and Jews. In fact, like the 1967 war before it, the war this autumn shocked Christians into sometimes sharp reappraisals of Israel, and shook Jews with the fear of antiSemitism. One Protestant ecumenical expert in Israel, indeed, lamented that Jewish-Christian relations "have never been more seriously threatened...