Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dadism, starting in Zurich after World War I, was anti-art--the art of rebellion, aimed at attacking traditional sensibilities, shocking them, and confusing them. Surrealism followed, combining cubism and dadism, using often grotesque fantasy and dream elements to attempt an art of the sub-conscious and irrational...
Ultimate Quest. Here is the recurring dilemma that Agnon never quite resolves in his stories. His scholar-heroes dream of locking themselves up with some sanctified absolute discipline that will freeze change and make even time stand still. Yet, like the guest, they feel disturbing tugs toward the world outside-toward the everyday pleasures of walking in the forest or smiling once more at Rachel, the hotel-keeper's daughter. It is as if what keeps security in also keeps the very flavor of life out. And so, at the moment they discover their sanctuary, Agnon's characters...
...been tough on the nominees. How would you like to spend two days in a crouch?" His final assignment was even more painful: the recital of Academy self-congratulation comparing such movie pioneers as Jesse Lasky and Samuel Goldwyn to "the man from Atlanta" because "they, too, had a dream...
COONRADT here is both defining the personality of his character and attempting to undermine the audience's tendency to accept an all-too-conventional reality. Even the beautifully photographed, frequently superimposed dream sequences are at first 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...
Will we make Martin Luther King's undiminished and unyielding dream of an integrated and just society of black and white a reality? Or will we allow the slow motion of judicial, all deliberate speed to continue to maim the minds of the young, black and white alike...