Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great War, the Russian Revolution and the Weimar Republic. This was the last period in which the dream of the engaged avant-garde seemed credible: that corrupt societies could be toppled and Utopias created with...
...horny faun who spends his afternoon chasing-and being rejected by-nubile nudes; a serpent whose proffered apple is spurned by Adam and Eve and who makes the mistake of swallowing it himself, only to be driven to despair by modern society; a spilled drop of Coke that becomes the primal seed for an army of fantastic monsters; a tidy bee whose neat little world is crushed by the love thrashings of a monstrous (to her eyes) human couple...
...belong to a literate lawyer, and Keaton has just called. Anxieties have gnawed dangerously at confidence during the night, and repairs must be made. "I'm a guilt-ridden, anhedonic type," says Allen, whose conversation can sound like a Woody Allen movie without the jokes. He lives with despair, gloomily believing that his films "are all strikeouts. None of them achieved what I'd hoped to do." Keaton argues that the films are lovely, funny, an imperishable national asset...
...season--brutal words for any athlete, words that cause incredulity first, then outrage, then despair...
...note of hope as the film's protagonist gains his release from a local mental institution. Played by a German actor going under the nom de theatre of Bruno S., the Stroszek character quickly becomes an awkward and self-conscious symbol of the social orphan. Herzog sketches the despair and alienation of the vagrant with an unflinching vengeance...