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...ever made about Christ, possibly one of the best films ever made. Nothing in my experience of De Mille-school blockbusters discourages the first label, but I think that a few pitfalls have stopped Matthew short of the summit. A silent film, Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, might serve as a standard to measure Matthew against, since it steered its religious theme around some of those same pitfalls on its way to greatness...
...suspicion of Russia. Rumania is, in many ways, the Gaullist France of Eastern Europe. The label fits not only in Bucharest's relations with its allies but physically and culturally as well. Fully 65% of Rumania's foreign-language students are learning French; Bucharest even boasts an Arc de Triomphe. Berets are de rigueur in Bucharest's working-class bistros, and the nascent Rumanian film industry-a mere 15 years old-has borrowed French New Wave techniques, along with one of French Director René Clair's cameras, left in the country after a recent filming...
...drugs, chewing gum, model airplanes and racks full of Playboy, the delights of Le Drugstore are inexhaustible. But now there is a new- and equally exotic- rendezvous: an English pub, inevitably called the Sir Winston Churchill, right there on the Champs Elysees, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe...
...remember how fascinated you were when you first read the story of Jeanne d'Arc and how your ambition was to be something like her?" wrote Jawaharlal Nehru from a British prison in India to his daughter on her 13th birthday in 1930. "In India today we are making history, and you and I are fortunate to see this happening before our eyes. I cannot say what part will fall to our lot, but whatever it may be, let us remember that we can do nothing that may bring discredit on our cause or dishonour to our people. Goodbye, little...
...their place. In times when life as well as education was far shorter than today, they often made history at an age when the modern young are still working for their degrees; Edward the Black Prince was 16 when he won the battle of Crécy, Joan of Arc was 17 when she took Orléans from the English, and Ivan the Terrible was the same age when he hounded the boyars to death and had himself crowned czar. But for ordinary people, particularly under the long-prevalent guild system of apprentices and journeymen, life was a slow...