Word: landlord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When any action intrudes upon the sequence, the change is welcome indeed. Here writer Kaneto Kuroda begins to preach, against the evil landlord, the indifferent doctor, the unsympathetic fishmonger. But the constant struggle is the link as well as the main subject of the film. Each variant scene lies apart like an independent engraving, showing only its momentary effect on the couple's lives...
There was a serf who led a very unfortunate life. His landlord, pretending to goodness, gave him a lot overgrown with wood. "Work it," he said, "and it shall be yours...
...lonely public house perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...
...immigrant Jew lives in a shabby single room on Manhattan's East Side. He quarrels with all forms of life: pigeons, cats, dogs, landlord, goyim. He hates them all because they still have their life, while he is soon to die. He treats no one worse than his son Carl, who fled to the suburbs and keeps a house that is not strictly kosher. The old man knows how to make him feel guilty. "You think I keep a diary of all my aches and pains, so I can tell you about them every two months?" he grumbles when...
Immobiliare no longer likes to be a landlord. Instead, it builds and sells whole suburbs of apartments and homes, and throws in all the amenities from roads and utilities to churches and football fields. Even its apartments it sells on a "condominium" basis: the customer buys the apartment and thereafter can sell, rent or mortgage it on his own. In Italy, Immobiliare's prices for houses and apartments range from $7,000 to a top of $35,000, but in Washington's Watergate some of the posher pleasure domes will...