Word: ests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Resnais admits to no conscious influence of Proust, the perpetual presence of memory is unmistakably Proustian. Even in as realistic a film as La Guerre est Finie, flashes into the past and future become part of the hero's present reality. No less significantly, Resnais recalls how--scarcely pausing to eat--he read all of Remembrance of Things Past in ten intense days...
While more liberal Jews are willing to search for the common denominator of faith within a broader idea of Jewish peoplehood, the Orthodox are more demanding: faith must come first, peoplehood second. Indeed, for the strict est Orthodox, their rigidly sectarian faith actually separates them from other Jews. Even so, the basic Orthodox concept of Jewish identification is far healthier today than was expected just a few decades ago. Now it is burgeoning, partly because the melting pot is passe, but also partly because the Orthodox birth rate is unusually high...
...triggered by several fallacies. One is that if some event makes headlines today, the knowledge that it has happened before, say half a century ago, will electrify and elevate playgoers and perhaps lead them to wag their heads sagely while muttering "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
Last Year at Marienbad, and a memorable year it was. 6, 9:40. Plus LaGuerre est Finie, 4 (weekend only) and 7:40. Two classics by Resnais, both at the Brattle until Tuesday...
...Budapest, where Husband Richard Burton is making a movie called Bluebeard, the beautiful 40-year-old invited some 200 friends in from all over the world for a couple of days of drinking and dancing and laughing and looking at the birthday girl and her jewels. The lat est Elizabethan dazzler was a present from Burton: the flat, heart-shaped diamond given by 17th century Indian Shah Jahan to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal -for whom he built the Taj Mahal. Shah Richard promised to match the cost of the pendant (guesstimate: $100,000) with a donation to charity; he also...