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Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism. The central figure is dying of cancer; his final months lead through the discovery of goodness to one of the crudest pieces of sustained misanthropy the screen has ever shown...
...film vault by an enterprising U.S. distributor, has long been acclaimed by film buffs as perhaps the finest achievement of Japan's most vigorously gifted moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...
...primary colorations that once made his ritualistic evocation of a peasant wedding such a shocking piece of musical theater. But last week's audience had traveled a long way from the 1920s: its reaction was not one of shock but of reverence in the presence of an acknowledged masterwork...
...Carl Orff's lightly lyrical Carmina Burana, both conducted by Leopold Stokowski. The audience took to the double feature so enthusiastically that an additional performance was scheduled for last week. The season's second big hit: a superb production of Mozart's crystalline comic masterwork, Cosi Fan Tutte. Vienna-born Director Rudel, 38, is also offering the standards-Madame Butterfly, Boheme...
...Mencken called Man and Superman, "with Ibsen doing running high jumps; Schopenhauer playing the Calliope and Nietzsche selling peanuts in the reserved seats," runs a paltry three hours and fifteen minutes in its deft and buoyant revival by the Group 20 Players. In order to make this enormous masterwork fit such a brief compass, the usual expedient is to cut the dream scene in hell, a glorious ideological quartet for voices, specifically designed by the author as a detachable interlude. The reigning powers at Group 20 have decided to leave in the hell scene, and to take in compensation frequent...