Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In an age when kings have gone out of style and the craft of kingship is all but forgotten, it is the good fortune of Thailand-and of the free world-that the present occupant of the nine-tiered umbrella throne, ninth monarch of the 184-year-old Chakri dynasty...
Director Varda exempts exempts François both from praise and condemnation. She merely accepts his behavior as an inexorable fact of life, and dramatizes it bewitchingly in unforced New Cinema style, using abrupt cuts and soft focus to suggest the spontaneous electricity generated by lovers, repeating one action several...
The film's visual style, to which Gavras clearly gave a great deal of attention, sometimes drops to the level of mere flashiness. Gavras will not always resist ostentatious camera angles and tricks like shooting upside down or through the bottom of a beer stein. But often the style is...
Events by and large proved him right. More significant for those who wish to know something about this outspoken Negro leader, however, was not that his prediction was confirmed but that his character was, and still is, so completely distorted by this hate symbolism. Somewhere behind the press releases, the...
To dismiss Malcolm X with such facility is to do him an injustice. His was an extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to...