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...from the U.S. has doubled. Thus the trade balance for the U.S. has improved considerably. We now think the $4.2 billion imbalance in Japan's 1972 fiscal year will be cut to around $2.7 billion this year. I believe that current U.S. policy on the dollar is very clever. Despite all your assets, you make out your currency to be very weak. A stronger dollar is also to Japan's benefit, and so we are ready to cooperate with the U.S. to strengthen...
...Palma made Greetings, a clever film about draft resistance that stood out above the typical youth films then being made. He has had as much trouble obtaining backing for films as most talented young directors, but he insists that Sisters is a film he had wanted to do for a long time, not a piece of commercial hackwork. The film appears under the American International Pictures label, and though that company is known mainly for its slick promotion of cheap sex, De Palma insists that the choice of a distributor was a business decision unrelated to his artistic intentions...
...murder committed by a schizoid, as does Psycho. De Palma tries to go Hitchcock one better by making his murderer the ultimate split personality: one member of a pair of Siamese twin sisters separated at the end of their adolescence. The way De Palma handles it, it's a clever idea, and it allows him to include a clever documentary film within the film which he made with the assistance of Jay Cocks, the young film critic for Time. Unfortunately, De Palma never treats the psychological facet of the girls' unusual predicament with any more depth than the freakshow fascination...
...best and also the shortest of the three plays. For unknown reasons, two strangers suddenly find themselves trapped in a single room, and in between rationalizing their behavior, they obey the directions of a gigantic hand, which gestures to them to remove their clothes. The gimmick alone is clever, and Mrozek, with a fine sense of the dramatic, skillfully brings out the contrast between the feeble human discussions and the powerful silence of the Hand...
...story works by a series of comic revolutionary skits, some more clever than others. Perhaps the best is a workers' musical number which Godard presents in a two-tiered factory set in cutaway, complete with ascending staircase a la Bye Bye Birdie, around which are draped the singing strikers. Later, the captive plant manager is forbidden to urinate, until he is so tormented that, irony of ironies, he breaks the factory window and lets fly on the street below...