Word: tweet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like Tweet (Columbia). The idea is cute and corny: eleven songs with themes that take off from the tunes of far-out birds like the purple finch and the wood pewee. "I suddenly realized,'' writes Jazzman Eddie Hall, "that birds blow the greatest riffs ever created." The band has an airy bounce, and the wonder of it all is that a few birds, notably the Baltimore oriole, come out of it almost as well as they went...
...much greater length (2 hr. 20 min.) than the average spectator can be expected to tolerate. Furthermore, Actor Shimura, though at moments transcendently right and revealing, rather too continuously resembles a Japanese Jiggs who has just been beaned by the eternal rolling pin and is about to say tweet-tweet. But the minor actors are often superb. The camera work, the cutting, the use of flashback and sound track are spectacularly apt and original. And the great strength of the picture is the total seriousness and importance of what Kurosawa has to say: to live is to love; the rest...