Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin to assume the other's personality. Stefan becomes more sedate and Julius more wild. The scenes in which the two of them are alone are the film's best. Physically, Lauterbach and Ochsenknecht are diametrically opposed. Lauterbach is trim, dark and balding; Ochsenknecht fair, muscular and dramatic...
Sixteen hundred freshmen implies 1600 freshman stories. Some are funny; most are ordinary. Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
Hard to see why. The film is no winner but no atrocity either. We are in Shanghai, 1938. Warlords and China dolls are bumping into faded carbon copies of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. That must make Penn the Bogart figure -- a hustler and self-styled "Glow-in-the-Dark-Tie King" who helps a prim but spunky missionary (yep, Madonna) find 1,000 lbs. of opium to help soothe the wounds of Chinese soldiers. "Guns cause pain," she says fervently. "Opium eases pain...
...home, the Committed Artists, the Earth Players, the Bahumutsi Drama Group and the other black groups featured in the festival work largely in the dark. Since theaters are nonexistent in South African townships, the companies operate like the mystery players of medieval England, wandering from shantytown to shantytown and staging their dramas in churches, schoolrooms or whatever space is available. And since printed texts might be considered subversive, they commit little of their improvised theater to paper...
...generation of work done now in this area," he explains. "When you have so many stumps, when you can see what the forest floor was like, when you have the soil of that time, when you know the angle of the sun giving the months of dark, you have a heck of a lot of facts to work on. We're going to have our fling...