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...does not cut off the dancers' feet, a common Hollywood error. But in the long Kingdom of the Sweets sequence, the action is blurry. The Waltz of the Flowers, with its swift pace and swirling, swooping movements, almost falls apart. The choreographic patterns are unreadable, and even Nichols' brilliant dancing loses some of its definition...
...said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that religion was crucial to civilization. "Only the Christian faith had the possibility to heal these people and give a new beginning," he says. He was ordained a priest in 1951, and moved on to a brilliant career as a theologian that reached its first peak at the Second Vatican Council...
...Wobegon, where "all the children are above average." Working-world Asians, meanwhile, have produced a veritable galaxy of stellar performers in the U.S., from the arts and sciences to business and finance. Like immigrating Jews of earlier generations, they have parlayed cultural emphases on education and hard work into brilliant attainments...
...Over a period of weeks, a taut shooting script emerges. The result is depressing and uncompromising. In Britain Naked's unredeemed hostility is straining the loyalty of Leigh's many admirers. In Cannes, however, the film won him the Best Director award this year, and David Thewlis, who is brilliant as rotten Johnny, was named Best Actor. Life for Leigh's lower-class mates is nasty and brutish; women are doormats and men are misogynists. The director does not ask for sympathy for Naked's characters, and the audience feels none. Once met, though, Johnny cannot be forgotten...
...individual imaginations, regularly tossed barbs at "the witch doctor Freud" and "the Viennese quack." For similar reasons, Ludwig Wittgenstein objected to the pigeonholing effects of psychoanalytic categories, even though he paid Freud a backhanded compliment in the process: "Freud's fanciful pseudo explanations (precisely because they are so brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures to use in 'explaining' symptoms of illness...