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...tale was Rashomon in a James Bondian world, an intricate fantasy of scramblers on telephones and double identities, of 5 a.m. rendezvous in wigs and false beards, of exotic island fastnesses that pulse with secret electronics and the glint of fortunes in transit. Its protagonist could only be Howard Hughes, 67, the archetypal, anchoritic billionaire brooding over one of the world's great pools of wealth. He has always been an elusive, somehow haunted presence, sending out his commands from a bewildering entombment in desert or tropical hotels. Obsessively shy, devoted to intrigue, suspicious almost to the point of paranoia...
...seeing Jules, Jim, Charles Foster Kane, Rashomon or King Kong around the Harvard Houses this semester...
What the kids say may be silly, impractical or illusory. To listen to children is like watching the film Rashomon: participants in the same event see it in drastically different ways, all "true." But listening pays?especially in an era when rapid social change is creating roughly one new U.S. generation every five years...
...events as they must seem to other characters as well. The same conflicts are dramatized differently in several scenes. Voices echo and re-echo as tension and release are reflected in household rituals. In his fragile miniature of life, Kawabata has managed to present as many enigmas as Rashomon without shifting attention from...
...audience for Kurosawa films in the U.S. has been severely limited by the vagaries of film distribution. Although Rashomon became an art-house staple after it won an Academy Award in 1951, most of Kurosawa's other films have not found their way to many American screens. Red Beard, like Pierrot Le Fou first shown in 1965 but just released in New York, is being presented at a special foreign-language theater with only a whisper of publicity. Thus, filmgoers across the country may once again miss a masterpiece by one of the world's great film makers...