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...medieval allegory, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), a Knight, returns with his squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to Sweden after ten years in the Crusades. Death, played inndibly by Bengt Ekerot, comes to take the Knight, but the Knight, Seeking to win a respite, challenges Death to a game of chess. The Knight and Jons travel the contryside, which is ravaged by the plague. Also roaming the land is a band of travelling players--Jof (Nils Poppe), a visionary who sees the Virgin Mary, Jof's wife Mia (Bibi Andersson) and their baby...
Ekerot, swathed in black robes, his angular, bony face impossibly white, stands with Maria Casares in Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" and the peasant in Roberto Gavalodon's "Macario" as one of the greatest visualizations of death in cinema. At one point, Jof sees the Knight playing chess with Death, and he escapes with Mia and their son. The Knight travels to his castle with several of his companios, and it is there that Death finds them. As the film closes, Jof has a vision of Death leading the Knight and his companions in a dance across the horizon...
Many junior fellows explore new fields while atHarvard, but few go as far as one recent fellowwho took advantage of his new freedom to dedicatehimself to chess. The fellow reportedly has goneon to compete in national chess tournaments...
...Every night he goes out on stage and sings different words, and every time it's just as great." He has been accused of singing nonsense; the liner notes in his records include lists of words which have no relation to one another aside from sounding similar ("Close Shave. Chess Leave. Clove Leash." etc). But it doesn't sound like nonsense to me. While any one song might not have a coherent "plot," such as boy-meets-girl or man-hit-the-road, which can get kind of boring anyway, Malkmus' songs are surreal glimpses into a sensibility to contemporary...
...year into the Clinton Administration, Duffy is still struck by the contrast between this President and his predecessor. It is, he says, the difference "between covering a game of checkers and a game of three- dimensional chess. Clinton is a much more complex politician than Bush, and his agenda is as sprawling as his management style." The Bush White House ran with almost military precision, even when its direction was unclear, Duffy says, while Clinton and his staff have a strong sense of direction but are constantly rushing to catch up with themselves. In person, Duffy finds the two Presidents...