THE SCREEN

Paris Vu Par. I can't imagine anyone going to see this, given the timing (it's Sunday night at Harvard-Epworth), but I guess there are some people who aren't in the bunker this week. Like If I Had A Million and that recent film on the Munich Olympics, this is a conglomerate movie, with different directors each interpreting the same subject--here, Paris. The directors are mostly New Wave in this case: Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, others, and--though the information I have here doesn't say so--I could have sworn that Louis Malle did a bit for this one, the best bit.

IIsa. All one can do is repeat the advertisement which last Friday, in anticipation of the weekend, was headed "Heil Students!" IIsa is "The Bitch of Buchenwald." "Even the SS Feared Her!" Rated X. At the Paris Cinema. Check out The Globe for the ad.

Kurosawa. The festival of great Japanese films continues at the Park Square, the Kenmore remaining immobilised by an interminable run of the Monty Python film. Anyway this weekend features Rashomon and Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. Rashomon is set in something like 9th century Kyoto, and examines four people's subjective accounts of a murder. After that Park Square is showing Yojimbo (which Kurowasa made because he was so pissed off that the Americans copied Seven Samurai when they made The Magnificent Seven--so it's a parody). With it is another film starring Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood (a version of Macbeth).