Word: ichikawa
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Visions of Eight. Eight directors from around the world look at the Munich Olympics. Kon Ichikawa, Arthur Penn, Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Mai Zetterling, Juri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger. At Cinema 733, Sunday and Monday...
...original material for Siddhartha--the book itself--was no gem, but the basic setting and action has potential. Louis Malle (Phantom India) and Jean Renoir (The River), along with Satyajit Ray and his Apu trilogy, have shown that India's culture is fascinating on film. And Kon Ichikawa made a brilliant Japanese film called The Burmese Harp about a soldier burying the unknown dead after the World War II defeat, giving the story of a religious ascetic roaming the countryside incredible resonance and conviction...
Directed by MILOŠ FORMAN, KON ICHIKAWA, CLAUDE LELOUCH, JURI OZEROV, ARTHUR PENN, MICHAEL PFLEGHAR, JOHN SCHLESINGER, MAI ZETTERLING
...slow-motion freaks do not fare any better. Japan's Kon Ichikawa, who all by himself made a better Olympics film about the 1964 Tokyo Games, uses slow motion to record the 100-meter dash. Although it is fascinating to see some of the world's fastest humans running in place for a few minutes, it is finally frustrating not to see the essence of their thing, which is a blur. Arthur Penn has some extremely pretty pictures of pole vaulters slowly soaring, but when he cuts a lot of vaults together to form a sort of aerial...
...disaster underscores the problem of crowded skies. Near-collisions have risen to an estimated 200 per year in Japan and 600 in the U.S. Ichikawa's instructor, Captain Tamotsu Kuma, said that "with civilian jets flying upstairs all the time and civilian propeller planes downstairs," it was almost inevitable that military aircraft would continue to stumble into commercial air lanes...