Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FILMS PORTRAYING vast lonely open spaces; films whose gradations of light and dark are textural, tactile; historical films telling what really happened from the viewpoint of the people to whom it really happened: pudgy people, people with freckles, people whose hands belie their age--until recently, these films have been almost the exclusive export of Australia...
...official of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control who has been monitoring the search for a cause-and possibly a cure-admits that epidemiologists are still in the dark. Said Dr. Peter Patriarca: "To our knowledge, an illness like this has never been associated with cooking oil or, for that matter, with any kind of food. Some chemicals found in these oils should not be there, but they've never been connected with an illness like this. There is something else that we just can't pin down, and as long as we don't know...
...running he began up in the Poconos, as a way of getting his body back from those sodden years he never thought about it, just ate and did what he wanted, restaurant lunches downtown in Brewer plus the Rotary every Thursday, it begins to pack on. The town is dark he runs through, full of slanty alleys and sidewalks cracked and tipped from underneath, whole cement slabs lifted up by roots like crypt lids in a horror movie, the dead reach up, they catch athis heels...
Director Reisz and cinematographer Freddie Francis work together to create the two very different settings. Filmed in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, the 19th-century backgrounds are impossibly green fields, lush forests, and dark, crashing waves. The music supports the imagery, strings welling up in the background to suit this vivid and strikingly visual interpretation of every Victorian novel ever written. The blacks are black and the whites white in this world of sin and expiation where the characters care deeply about the conventions they transgress. Today's world, in contrast, appears in crisp, colorless light, everything modern...
...urban Blacks as a buffer against Black revolution cannot succeed. Even the most privileged Black can never forget that he is a third-class citizen. Every Black must live in one of the Blacks-only areas, all of which are miserable. Every Black must carry at all times a dark blue pass book. Unless this little booklet bears a stamp authorizing the holder to remain in white South Africa, he or she faces imprisonment or deportation to one of the so-called homelands, regions comprising the poorest and most overcrowded land in South Africa. These homelands, some which have been...