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...years. Like a prodigal at home again, he lets his camera roam lovingly across London-Tower Bridge to Covent Garden, Hyde Park to Scotland Yard, where Chief Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowen) is trying to solve the unsavory murders of a dozen London women who have been strangled with a silk...
With their Italian silk suits, Swiss watches and flashing grins, the happy foreigners stood out conspicuously in Santiago, Chile. They came from Swaziland, Barbados, Fiji and other developing states to confront representatives of richer industrial countries in the third
...RIVAL FACTIONS are equally immoral and led by men of ordinary appearance: a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) and a sake merchant (Takashi Simura). These men manipulate groups of extraordinarily conceived caracatures of evil. The degeneracy of the merchants is hidden beneath masks of respectibility and only when they make their plans is the full measure of their malevolence revealed. With their henchmen, however, the situation is different. They boldly flaunt their fugitive status and are terrifyingly eager to implement the merchant's plans for destruction. A henchman (Tatsuys Nakadai) of the sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person...
...warrior's perception of reality reduces any scene to its proper dimensions. When the silk merchant makes an attempt to woo him through the use of dancing girls, the camera focuses on the dancers' insipid expressions and stylized foot motions while the sound track conveys their uninspired attempts at music-making. Then, there is a close-up of the samurai's face stamped with a look of such marvelous scorn that the dancers become a spectacle of banality...
SIMON'S AUDIENCE that Thursday afternoon was the most genteel I'd ever seen at the Lowell Lecture Hall (where only six days previously Mr. Mailer had regaled a rowdy bunch with pungent braggadocio). Strike activities and riot scares had daunted all but the most dyed-in-the-silk aesthetes amongst undergrads. Professors and their wives dominated the thirty present, along with scattered unafilliated ladies. But Smiles of the Summer Night--Simon's subject for the day--is the most polite of Bergman's films...