Word: amoralities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edify it." This is, if anything, an understatement. Paschke's art is cold as a fish and, in its handling and sleazy color, twice as slimy. But its sheer perversity of style-which extends even to such innocuous images of gaudy Latin American show biz as Amor, 1970-sticks in the mind (and the craw) like a hook...
...other films, Gertrud does not raise these questions in a religious context. A brief scene at the close of the film shows Gertrud, a recluse near death, telling the old friend who once encouraged her to go to Paris that she has chosen for her epitaph the phrase Amor Omnia. "There is no other life than to love," she says. And he, it seems, has turned from writing on free will to publishing a book about Racine, the dramatist of "tragedy of passion." But Gertrud is left to die alone. The final shot is of a closed door. Is some...
Publicity Stunt? The would-be assassin, police soon learned, was not a Filipino but a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, who had lived in Argentina, the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines since leaving La Paz in 1962. He wanted to kill the Pope, he claimed, "to save the people from hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York...