Word: confession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must confess that I find the sympathetic portrayal of such a man politically confusing. While not wanting to make the argument that for a film to be good it must have my political stance, I think that by his subtly favorable presentation of la Masiere as a thoughtful, controlled, and supremely rational person (indicated by a coolness of demeanor, a reasonable tone, an obvious emotional distance from his own words) Ophuls is implicitly and irrevocably leading us to make the same kind of judgment of this man as a political actor. Even if Ophuls does not mean this, he must...
...cinema verite. This permits the best possible conditions for improvisation, and gives the public a continuous sense of risk and danger." It also means, as Bertolucci admits, that "it would be proper to put my analyst in the main titles, because he is the first person to whom I confess the ideas of my films...
WHILE visiting Harry Truman in the closing months of his presidency, Winston Churchill spoke with blunt generosity: "The last time you and I sat across a conference table was at Potsdam. I must confess, sir, I held you in very low regard. I loathed your taking the place of Franklin Roosevelt. I misjudged you badly. Since that time, you, more than any other man, have saved Western civilization...
...must confess that I was one of those "prisoners of limited vision" you referred to in your special section on Space. Now that I understand that science has determined the age of the moon to be 4.5 billion years, and it only cost us $30 billion to uncover that truly mind-blowing statistic, I and my family will be sure to keep track. Next year, when the moon is 4.5 billion and one years old, we will hold a birthday party. You are invited. So are all the children with birth defects, leukemia, mental retardation, etc., who could have been...
...political labels: "I do not care for conservatives who are for South Africa, Rhodesia and Greece, or liberals who care for Russia, China or Cuba. I suspect my politics are close to the new Libertarian Party [a Westminster, Colorado-based group opposed to big government] of which I confess almost total ignorance, but I dig the name...