Word: directs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressionistic, as we expect film-dreams to be, then increasingly mechanical and artificial, Coonradt demonstrating that Jane's reality is imposed by the camera and the way the director moves it. The last sequence, a magnificent three-minute series of near-identical close-ups of Jane, serves as a direct confrontation of actress-character and director-alter ego. Coonradt projects himself through Jane and dares the audience to watch it: both director and actress are triumphant and, simultaneously, supremely vulnerable...
...have known men and women for whom a single encounter with Dr. King has become a landmark in their lives. Had I met him but once, it would have been so for me. But too much should not be inferred from direct contact. He harbored no secrets from his vast congregation of the hopeless. He did not posture for the masses, and all of us saw him change and knew of his anxieties...
...father until he begged forgiveness from his mother. As Von Sydow descends into insanity, he keeps re-enacting that scene in the closet. His dread of the dark, his punishment and redemption, are constantly replayed; the characters who destroy him are shards of his shattered personality that, by direct transference, come to obsess his wife...
...Kubrick, this dehumanization is more than the result of the undefined force exerted by the monolith and proves a direct consequence of advanced technology. Kubrick is no stranger to the subject: The Killing and Lolita both involve man's self-expression through the automobile; Spartacus's defeat comes because he is not adequately prepared to meet the advanced military technology of the Roman army; Dr. Strangelove, of course, contains a running motif of machines assuming human characteristics (the machine sexuality of its opening titles) while humans become machinelike, a theme carried further in 2001. The central portion...
...letter is dated March 26, but was mailed Wednesday. An insert, pointing to the recent peace overtures in Vietnam, says, "The war remains morally and politically indefensible; the draft is still a terrible reality. We continue to believe that opposition to the draft is an honest and direct response to the choices forced upon each...