Word: characterizations
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Best Foreign Picture, that is. Whereupon, to extend the analogy between Character and Titanic, as the director accepted his Oscar, his ego succumbed to an attack of St. Vitus' dance, causing some among us to avert embarrassed eyes. But it's worthwhile, in the case of Dutch director Mike van...
Character's protagonist, a young man named Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huet), lives in emotional country bordered on one side by Kafka, on the other by Dickens, or, if you insist on being literal, in dank, gloomy Rotterdam in the 1920s. He is the product of a one-night liaison between...
As the movie proceeds, taking time to linger with complex subsidiary characters, letting us absorb the detailed richness of its imagery, contextualizing its story in a broader social history (unlike most movies, it is aware of working-class unrest and Marxist attempts to organize it early in this century), two...
By the Brezhnev era, Lenin's dream state had devolved into a corrupt and failing dictatorship. Only the Lenin cult persisted. The ubiquitous Lenin was a symbol of the repressive society itself. Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet of the late 20th century, began to hate Lenin at about the...
Churchill came of a military dynasty. His ancestor John Churchill had been created first Duke of Marlborough in 1702 for his victories against Louis XIV early in the War of the Spanish Succession. Churchill was born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the house built by the nation for Marlborough. As...