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Gertrud. The young art of film has produced few enough old masters, but any cinematic pantheon must make a place for Carl Dreyer, the Danish director whose reputation rests on a handful of somber, infrequent movie classics, among them The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Day of Wrath (1943). Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam...
...true original, unmistakably and incorrigibly American. But critics have endlessly speculated on the astonishing and unfathomable range of a man who could address himself to such disparate subjects as frontier humor (Roughing It), the adventures of youth (Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), chastity (Joan of Arc), obscenity (1601, a privately published Twain excursion into four-letter Tudor conversation), and nihilistic despair (What...
...shall gain, equal opportunities." Refreshing as those words might have been to newly enfranchised Negroes, they were heresy to Alabama's old-line whites. And when Martin Luther King began promoting a GROW-WITH-FLOWERS bloc vote among Negroes, Lurleen began to look like Joan of Arc to anxious white supremacists...
...Guggenheim Museum. Each measures 68 in. by 72 in., contains ever so slight variations of vertical bands, each setting up harmonic tensions with the rest. Viewed under intense illumination, Newman's striped Stations seem to quiver with the vibrancy of lines of diffracted light seen through an electric arc spectroscope...
Gabo's sculptures are frequently made from translucent plastic, phosphor bronze or glass; the shape is usually a swooping arc, strung with taut wire or string, like a harp, that forms a delicate open-sided cage for space. Their construction has been likened to architecture, their humming strings to music, their balance to mathematics...