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...second picture directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, 37, is a cinema masterpiece. Deep, original, strange, it propounds the parable of a young teacher (Eiji Okada again) who takes a field trip to an isolated duneland, misses the last train, accepts an invitation from the village elders to sleep in a shack at the bottom of a sand pit. In the morning he finds the ladder drawn up and no way out of the pit. "I'm sorry," says the young woman (Kyoko Kishada), who lives alone in the sand pit. "You cannot leave." Again and again he tries, again...
...crazy drivers in this country"; he commanded Democratic congressional leaders at a legislative breakfast to "switch about twelve votes" in the House so that the Administration's once-beaten pay-raise bill could pass; he told a dead-broke Kentuckian on the porch of his shack to "take care of yourself, now"; and he quietly asked New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating during a plane ride to New York if he would please pray...
...BLOOD KNOT. Playwright Atholl Fugard traps a black and white pair of half brothers in a tin shack in South Africa, which proves to be a no-exit hell for a conflict that is bruisingly bitter, ruefully humorous, and much more than skin deep...
...BLOOD KNOT. Playwright Atholl Fugard traps a black and white pair of half brothers in a tin shack in South Africa, which proves to be a no-exit hell for a conflict that is bruisingly bitter, ruefully humorous, and much more than skin deep...
...suggests that everyman's mind, like the dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...