Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kadar was in the midst of shooting a movie when the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia scattered his cast and crew. Kadar himself wandered over to America where he did a miserable adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Angel Levin. When the tension in his homeland eased, Kadar returned to Prague, regathered his company, and completed without the slightest visible ripple in continuity a film of extraordinary beauty and complexity...
Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert, by Luis Bunuel. Kirkland Dining Hall...
...Joan is heroic and noble (and shows those Chicago stockyard bosses); Grusha of The Caucasian Chalk Circle triumphs gloriously over those mean Ironshirt heavies. And those who are neither good nor bad but are in morality's mushy middle are at least nice; Baal of Baal is no angel (or devil), but it's tough not to like him. And we can at least understand why Mother Courage keeps at it. Morality is codif lable in Brecht; each of his characters has an assignable moral value, to be seen in relation to other characters with different assignable moral values. Brecht...
...Angel of the Morning...
...territory. But love, and all personal relationships, are just as tragic as they are in Bergman--if in more idealized ways, and in ways which echo a deeper social disillusionment. Love comes at the purgative ending of The Wild Bunch, when gunslinger Pike Bishop tries to save Mexican rebel Angel from the torture of the Federales--only to be slaughtered in a suicidal attack both epic and glorious. It becomes muted, perhaps sadder, in The Ballad of Cable Hogue: Hogue's woman leaves him and his desert home, and returns too late to share his life. She brings back...