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...RITCHIE,62, acerbic American director best known for his debut films Downhill Racer and The Candidate; in New York City. Ritchie also directed the Fletch comedies starring Chevy Chase and an hbo production self-explanatorily titled The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. DIED. HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA, 74, Japanese film director and artist; in Tokyo. Teshigahara is best known abroad for directing the Oscar-nominated Woman in the Dunes, but he was also a calligrapher,ceramicist and headmaster of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, the renowned flower-arranging academy his father founded in 1927. FILED FOR DIVORCE...
...gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshima mon amour and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes are a kind of atomic glaze - an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings...
Wednesday: Woman in the Dunes. Director Hiroshi Teshigahara...
...There are many beautiful things," Sofu Teshigahara has written. "The silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all. Among beautiful women there are said to be silent beautiful women, but none can compare with the silent flower." Sofu (the name means Blue Wind) is revered for such views in a land where a beautiful blossom is a benison. Round, gnome-like Teshigahara, 77, is Japan's most innovative and successful master of the ancient art of ikebana, which bears about the same relationship to flower arranging as usually practiced in the West as Rachmaninoff to country rock. Within that...
...looking for help and a place to hide after he goes AWOL. He is aided by sympathetic families, a bar girl, a truck driver and, ultimately, by a counseling group that convinces him that going back to base, then turning himself in, is the best thing to do. Hiroshi Teshigahara's previous film, Woman in the Dunes, (1964), was overburdened by a kind of febrile surrealism, but it at least demonstrated energy. Summer Soldiers is slackly directed in a trumped-up documentary style. Jim is a numbingly inarticulate spokesman for war resistance; like the well-scrubbed kids...