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...white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose eerie and deliberately vague and cryptic oil renderings of commonplace snapshot subjects, magazine and catalogue illustrations have elicited viewers' shudders and critical raves throughout West Germany, Switzerland and Italy...
...about 95% mythology," says Notre Dame's Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie. Except among some fundamentalists, the concept of a three-tier universe with heaven above, hell below and mankind in the middle struggling for divine judgment is recognized as a complete distortion of God's cryptic revelation on eternity...
ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic, skeletal dialogue, Joseph Losey directed...
...waiting at the Calais station. He became fascinated by "the signalization of the railways. I thought how dramatic this 'signalization' was, how necessary a part of our century." Ever since, he has been putting together odds and ends of old army tanks, trucks and planes to form cryptic beacons, panels of flashing green, violet and red aircraft-landing lights, needles that sing with an electronic Zorba whine...
...Oxonian summer, accenting the mood of haunting irony that Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) strove for. But despite the excellence of his camera work, and of Bogarde in the central role, Accident is a flawed work. The fault is largely that of Scriptwriter Harold Pinter (The Homecoming). His customarily cryptic dialogue probes too deeply, revealing all of the characters' inner anxiety and guilt, almost none of their outward life and feeling. Although they suffer from pangs of the flesh, they seem to be skeletal symbols rather than passionate human beings, not truly moving or fully alive. Accident ultimately suggests...