Word: apocalypticism
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As his vision of the modern world becomes more apocalyptic his films became more didactic and relentlessly intellectual. Where artists traditionally sought unity he sought fragmentation and where they traditionally depended on illusion and empathy he aimed at a self-mocking anatomy. His basic technique was simply to project a...
Cymbals crash. Kettledrums thunder. The screen fairly buckles under the image of a belching steel furnace. Then, from the midst of the apocalyptic flames, the title roars with a force that threatens the entire population of the first twelve rows of the orchestra. The Damned, it proclaims, shimmering with the...
A fascinating interview with I.A. Richards opens the issue, and with anecdotes of a pristine Cambridge and Mao's China he poses the tension between nostalgic tradition and contemporary urgency that finds its way into most of the magazine. His sheer good sense and faith in man is refreshing in...
No one who has seen B.C. will ever forget it. It was a ghastly, primeval Romeo and Juliet, with the Shell and Rock families replacing the houses of Montague and Capulet. Loana Shell (Raquel) and Tumak Rock (John Richardson) meet and fall agonizingly in love. Agonizingly, because he already has...
TERRENCE McNALLY'S Noon does not have the apocalyptic ending of Morning, but it deals with very much the same problem in a different context, that of sex.