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The sheer discursiveness of The Thanatos Syndrome lends itself to all manner of loose, didactic, free-associative diatribe. We're so swept up by the movement of the novel--and this novel does move; it has a wonderful clip--that we find ourselves swallowing pop-philosophical placebos, medicines Percy, a...
Even though the film is two and a half hours long and spans forty years, The Assault is actually a short epic, concerned with the destiny of the post-war European soul. There is not a gratuitous scene or extraneous line of dialogue in it. Director Fons Rademakers is meticulous...
Marshall says that he intentionally stayed away from the statistics and "didactic narration" of typical documentaries. He deliberately shot the film in color, because "black and white imposes a statement on the film that says it is depressing."
More than anything else, Hoosiers resembles one of those NFL Game of the Week films, with the pounding score and super-slow motion. But there, at least, you generally give a damn about the teams that are playing. Here, you really are given no motivation, beyond the need to create...
The machine, with its stripped and logical forms, its imagery of power, change and fast communication, would make concrete what Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had...