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...found a half- eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw a photograph of the departed First...
...program may not have broken as much new ground as Kovacs did, and wonderful characters like the Coneheads or Belushi's demented samurai may not have been any funnier, finally, than anyone on Your Show of Shows, but this book gives full measure to the size and the weight of S.N.L.'s substantial legacy. If the show was in danger of going down in history as a farm team for Hollywood, Hill and Weingrad have righted that misconception. S.N.L. was bodacious and irreverent, brazen enough to make everything else on the networks seem irrelevant. If Michaels' current edition of S.N.L...
...hopeless fight for Lowry and Jill, as each mishap and misadventure complicates their lives. As if in self-defense, Lowry begins to retreat into his own mind. In his dreams, the stormtroopers who beat him become massive, fantastic samurai fighters with whom he does battle. His fellow employees and the kingpins of his mother's high-society existence become orc-like creatures who are dragging Jill in a cage. The myriad ducts which encroach upon his apartment become snakes which attack him, and his mother, who has been getting progressively more drastic facelifts, appears looking like his daughter...
...Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like Sam's dream girl. To be near her he accepts promotions in the bureaucracy and learns firsthand $ of its comprehensive brutality...
...imagery is of comparable quality, at once awesome in its power, delicate in its irony and, finally, for all the violence of the events it recounts, eerily serene in the sureness with which it achieves its effects. At 75, with such films as Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo already installed furnishings of the modern sensibility, Kurosawa is not only the master of his own medium but, more important, of his own mind as well...