Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approve a cautious statement acknowledging that priests want an "authentic co-responsibility" within the church. But the bishops did not comment on the demands of the radicals, who made it clear they intend that their voice be heard. At week's end, the rebel clergy agreed to establish a permanent European Assembly of Priests, with headquarters in the Belgian city of Louvain...
...elucidation of a second source or vitality in the story lies with a number of remarkable performances. Reacting variously to their Christ, a number of supporting players establish the fascinating ineffability of his presence. Though they are too many to note fully here, these players include Ken Tiger's sympathetic and sublet Pilate, Arthur Friedman's carefully modulted Caiaphas, Woody Lorriman's magnificently emotional Mary Magdalene...
...pretty patterns which Ballard was allowed to establish in True Grit are absent in The Wild Bunch since, unlike the Hathaway film, Sam Peckinpah has directed half to three-quarters of this epic in close-shot. The major exception to this rule of composition comes in the slow-motion orgies of violence which punctuate the film at various crucial points...
...main irony of the film that the men who so desperately try to establish an identity through their collective action become overwhelmed by it. Peckinpah's vision of battle is total chaos. Uncompleted zooms are followed by cuts to entirely unrelated images. Pursurers are confused with pursued. At the end we are left with nothing but a sense of the beauty...
...worst when it is either moralizing (dialogue which nearly screams "Vietnam, Vietnam" at the audience) or when it is tentative (nostalgic close shots superimposed over the final track). But for the most part Peckinpah is honest both to his audience and himself. Rather than attempting to establish a mythical west, Sam Peckinpah has given us a segment of his own world, and it is a far more vital one indeed...