Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...village destroyed by the war. The candles flickering in the wind, the funereal rolling of drums, the hush over most of the line of march?but above all, the endless recitation of names of dead servicemen and gutted villages as each marcher passed the White House ?were impressive drama: "Jay Dee Richter" . . . "Milford Togazzini" . . . "Vinh Linh, North Viet Nam" . . . "Joseph Y. Ramirez." At the Capitol, each sign was solemnly deposited in one of several coffins, later conveyed back up Pennsylvania Avenue in the Saturday march...
...also been lucky. Unlike most of the others, I had had my tacky bit of existential drama. It had taken place right out there on Canal Road. And now, here it was five in the morning, and I was forcing my recalcitrant body to sleep in the crowded quarters of the car's front seat. The guy with the bullhorn and Frank's white Rambler-they must serve as my moral equivalent of war. Second-rate substitutes of course, but then, you'll have to admit, these are second-rate times we are living...
Instead he joins a group of aristocrats in a country mansion. During their extended party the tangled relationships between them proliferate. The drama becomes a monstrous pattern without order, filled with action which develops only to greater confusion and triviality. The mansion is a collection of rooms we cannot fit together, each with its own specific disorder. And when it's closest to an apparent resolution the film becomes completely chaotic. Octave and Christine. alone in a greenhouse in the park, decide to elope. The light falling on the scene is so broken that their faces and their surroundings...
...Incidentally, "Morning, Noon and Night" not only helps close out a decade of history but a decade of Loeb drama as well. In the Loeb's case, this production does not so much end an era as herald in a new one. Everyone may not be ready for this step into the future, but hopefully everyone will go and see for themselves. While you may be driven crazy if you do go, you'll be just as crazy...
...Ronde's final fascination lies in the terms on which Ophuls offers his drama to us. His other films enlarge the audience's moral awareness of its experience by developing the implications of their styles. Our enjoyment of Madame de... shifts toward regret when we see that its sweeping camera motions are imprisoning its characters in dances through time. The vulgarity of our love of spectacle and self-revelation turns Lola Montes into a terrible humiliation of its heroine...