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...festival did try to add a touch of spice, which seems to have become de rigueur since Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris stirred things up four years ago. But this year's offering, In the Realm of the Senses, directed by Japan's Nagisa Oshima, was impounded by U.S. customs officials after they viewed it at a press screening. Nobody seemed to mind much, which probably had less to do with indifference to civil liberties than with general embarrassment over the quality of the film. In the Realm of the Senses is like the customs...
BRATTLE Sept. 22-288 1/2 Federico Fellini La Viaccia Mauro Bolognini Sept. 29-Oct. 5 Elvira Madigan Bo Widerberg Morgan Karel Reisz Oct. 6-12 Persona Ingmar Bergman Devil By The Tail Phillippe de Broca Oct. 13-19 The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa Oct. 20-26 Boy Nagisa Oshima Weekend Jean Luc Godard CENTRAL SQ. Oct 13-16 The Big Store Marx Brothers A Day at the Circus Oct. 17-19 Ninotchka Greta Garbo Anna Karenina Oct. 20-23 Lolita Peter Sellers The Night of the Iguana Richard Burton Oct. 24-26 Captains Courageous Spencer Tracy Mutiny on the Bounty...
...book Underdeveloped Countries by Ives Lacoste. Buenos Aires, 1962). A national income of 2.200 million dollars ranked Cuba 40th out of 91 countries studied in the "Atlas of Economic Development" by Professor Morton Ginzberg, Chicago University Press. 1961. It ranked fifth in Latin America. Studies by H. T. Oshima of Stanford University, California showed per-capita income in Cuba to have risen to ?520 in 1956-1957, thus placing it third in Latin America and 31st in the world...
...Oshima's Bisonburger
...billboards. They are horrified at the amount of food piled on their plates and at the haste with which Americans eat, but usually leave ecstatic over American salads and agreeably surprised by California wines. Meat, particularly "steaks big as blankets," impresses visitors, but when Japan's Dr. Chozo Oshima sampled a bisonburger, he had to pronounce it "not for the Japanese palate." Since television in most of the world is government-owned and often without advertising, tourists are fascinated by American television, particularly the commercials, which left Swedish Visitors Inga and Rune Svensson with the impression that "Americans live...