Word: catharsise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In creating his modern tragedy, Director Lumet has contrived to effect his catharsis. Why should Nazemann, who has been living in New York for twenty years, exposed to the same influences, suddenly wake up? Why should he be able to recall traumas from repression when anyone else would need an...
But catharsis can only come from such a closely-knit sequence of highly charged events compressed into a narrow time span. If those events all work together to virtually place the viewer inside the main character's skin, the film attains tragic proportions; if they do not, it degenerates into...
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of, the catharsis of Greek tragedy.
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of the catharsis of Greek tragedy.
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR is an animated documentary that grins like a skull at the follies of World War I. Adding humor and song to pity and terror, Lovely War achieves a catharsis hardly to be believed of a musical. The hand that guides it is Joan Littlewood'...