Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tendryakov, a young prose writer whose most memorable story, about an escaped convict who bilks his rescuers, is a horrifying allegory aimed subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant for the bewildered and inarticulate...
...without exaggerated theatrics) that even famous tenors and sopranos find themselves in danger of being upstaged in his presence. De Paolis seems able to play any role at all-Goro, the wizened Japanese matchmaker of Butterfly; Shuiski, the crafty adviser to the Czar in Boris Godunov; Spoletta, the evil police agent of Tosca; Don Basilio, the fatuous music master of Figaro. His palsied Emperor in Turandot is one of his most recent and brilliant successes. In Tales of Hoffmann he has four roles (Andres, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz) and four rapid-fire makeup changes. This week in Boston, where...
Reactionary Yale politics achieved a well-argued victory at the end of the movie when the film was hissed because it was produced by the Fedoral government. For as we all know, whatever government does is evil, and necessarily poor. Hollywood films have demonstrated the brilliant success of private enterprise to Yalie satisfaction...
...love and faith of little children have turned him from his evil ways...
...shall reign forever and ever!" Seldom in cinema has the nature of revolution been realized with such profundity and expressed with such power. Bunuel indulges in no sentimentality about "the masses." Rabble is rabble to him; the mob is a beast with many heads that destroys both good and evil, that overwhelms humanity with animality. Nevertheless, Bunuel seems to believe that revolution is necessary in Spain, that only a revolt of the masses can dissolve its calcified social structure. But after the revolution, what? Viridiana witlessly abandons what is good in her religion along with what...