Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's comedy, in which he stars as a woefully unconfident young man coached in the art of winning women by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart. Though the play sometimes resembles an extended nightclub routine, it proves an amusing evening...
FORD'S LAST pre-war film shows the disintegration of a family and a way of life in coal-mining Wales. It also represents the passing of an art. In How Green Was My Valley a certain type of American film reached its height--only to end. Ford's most intense melodrama brought the art of Griffith to an indescribable climax. Ford made many great films after World War II, but they are less intimate in subject, broader in pacing and lighting...
Still, the label that in one sense best suits Nabokov's practice and precept as a writer is art for art's sake...
Sculptor in Soil. In place of a plot, Jancso exhibits portraits of an embryonic police state, set against a pitiless sky and a plain so vast that it seems to show the curvature of the earth. In his cold eye, war is an aleatory art in which values are as random as bullets. A military band plays an exhilarating march; a moment later the tune is whistled by a doomed man. A woman is run, naked, through a line of whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits...
Though the end contains a ritual slaughter, it comes too late to save the project. The western is essentially a naive art. When it tries for sophistication it collapses into self-mockery, like a cowpoke dressed by Cardin...