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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...
...first two films are consciously commonplace in their choice of theme. In Black Hair, a young samurai, discouraged with his poverty, divorces his wife and remarries to advance his position. He succeeds in becoming rich but is haunted by his desertion. Eventually he returns home to his first wife, at which point the film reaches its ironic climax-worth not revealing. In the Snow Woman, a young woodcutter, caught in a storm, sees his companion killed by the woman of the title, but he is spared on condition that he never reveal what he has seen. As soon...
Kobayashi lavishes all his technical skill on making the limited number of scenes expressive of the implied greater whole. In Black Hair, for example, we see the samurai and his second wife together only once, but a scene of the woman slapping her sleeping husband is so constructed that their relationship is defined without ambiguity. The devotion to detail makes individual scenes become stylized pageants. Rhythms between sound and image and contrasts between sets of extraordinarily evocative color photography manipulate our expectations so that we are drawn along in a kind of measured processional...
...needed divine guidance. At first, the group was apprehensive. "I felt like an idiot, an impossible Buddhist Quixote in this age of technology," recalls Masaki Umehara. The public felt differently. To many Japanese, the picture of a solitary band of Buddhists silhouetted against smoke-belching factories suggested latter-day samurai...
...displayed a set of photographs of himself in the nude. Last week the body that he had trained until it became his pride, together with its severed head, was cremated. Yukio Mishima left two farewell waka, the 31-syllable Japanese poems, that he had composed, like a good samurai, on the eve of his death. One of them read...