Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb Drama Center--Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller...
WITH remarkable clarity, the words reached the earth from a quarter of a million miles away in space. "Houston," the distant voice announced, "Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." Though somewhat overlooked in the drama of the lunar landing, the intricate electronics systems that brought Neil Armstrong's voice back from the moon were almost as much of an engineering triumph as the rocketry that carried him there...
Babel was not merely compelled to rewrite a story dozens of times, as the Russian authors suggest. He seems to have been incapable of writing anything that did not follow the unique lines of his own ironical and conflicting character. For all their straightforward drama and excitement, the Red Cavalry stories rest on the contradiction between professional bloodletting and revolutionary ideals...
...moral plane, and then as Jannings on the same moral plane, and then as Jannings comes on stage to a terrifying long shot of the stage, rectangle of light, surrounded by the darkened hall and crowd. Despite the weight of this darkness, our attention is riveted to the personal drama on the bright stage. This finally proves the ideal and Romantic basis of Sternberg's drama as against its Expressionist surroundings...
...contradictions; their stance toward reality is ironic. But the means and indeed than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to situate himself in the midst of them. Though he does not relinquish his personal reference point, his personal reference point, his subject is an object trouve, a "real-life drama," and the structure of his film is determined by the nature of that subject in action. From this aesthetic of minimum interference are derived the techniques of direct cinema, the result of ways in which these film-makers are forced to work (since they cannot structure the situations to suit their...