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Kurosawa. The festival of great Japanese films continues at the Park Square, the Kenmore remaining immobilised by an interminable run of the Monty Python film. Anyway this weekend features Rashomon and Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. Rashomon is set in something like 9th century Kyoto, and examines four people's subjective accounts of a murder. After that Park Square is showing Yojimbo (which Kurowasa made because he was so pissed off that the Americans copied Seven Samurai when they made The Magnificent Seven--so it's a parody). With it is another film starring Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood (a version...
...Rashomon. Much more is at stake in the battle than personal power. With international oil prices likely to stay high for a long time, the U.S., as Ford has noted, must accelerate Project Independence to develop alternate sources of energy-but the effort needs an undisputed leader. A more pressing question-how long to maintain price controls on domestically produced oil-is also hanging fire. Morton and Simon last week advocated a quick start on phasing out the controls. Sawhill, who administers the controls, insists that rapid decontrol would be inflationary...
...Rashomon, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45, Ugetsu...
...Phase III guideline for wage increases goes Rashomon one better: it differs not only according to who is describing it, but according to who is describing it in which sentence. Last week John T. Dunlop, chairman of the Cost of Living Council, announced that "the wage and price standards that existed in Phase II...continue in effect," including the 5.5% guideline for average pay raises. In the same press conference, Dunlop said that he fully agreed with a statement by COLC's labor-management advisory committee that "no single standard of wage settlements can be formally applicable...
King Kong. Harvard Square, 3:25, 6:35, 9:50, 9:50. With Rashomon, 2, 5:10, 8:25. Through March 10. Jules and Jim, by Truffaut, 2:15, 5:55, 9:35, with Grand Illusion, Renoir, 4:05, 7:45, beginning March...