Word: discreeter
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...hallucination, constructed out of studio parts on a million dollar budget. It is to be the city of his imagination, something mythic, and anything so conventional as reality is drastically out of place. So the documentary surface is mere bare-faced pretence. The film moves in a sequence of discreet setpieces--imaginative sashays from bordello to palazzo, now nostalgic, now futuristic--a self-conscious patchwork of familiar imagery in a new extravagance. Fellini is banking on the strength of his own sensibility to hold all the elements together, and the film is as interesting, as inconsistent, and as idiosyncratic...
...history was clearly heading in one direction, that the human race was becoming more and more enlightened through the centuries, and that with this enlightenment would come a new maturity which in turn would make religious myths unnecessary. Hogwash, Greeley argues from Nisbet History shows change to be discontinuous, discreet and non-directional. Neither gradual "enlightenment" nor the loss of the need for myth is inevitable, Greeley says...
...DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE. Luis Buñuel's intricate and elegant dissection of middle-class amorality, shrewd and very funny...
...Ullmann but has a scene in which Birnbaum appears-for about 20 seconds-as a reporter. "Unlike Liv, who says that she can't bear to watch herself in films, I can indeed bear watching myself," admits Birnbaum. "Later, after an extraordinary amount of thought, she offered her discreet professional judgment. 'I thought,' she said, 'you looked very. . .uh . . . natural...
...that she was much too young to play in Forty Carats, and she is. But all the other women who wanted the part were either invulnerable or too old. You can't believe that Liv has any promiscuity in her. Even if she has love affairs, she is discreet. In her movies, when she looks at someone, it isn't to say 'Let's go to bed,' but rather 'What kind...