Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHAME. Ingmar Bergman tells a painful parable of the horrors of war and the moral responsibility of the artist. This is his 29th film and one of his best, with resonant performances by Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand...
...week long Czechoslovakia had braced itself for major political changes, and now an announcement was expected on TV. While waiting, Czechoslovaks were forced to watch the first Soviet film shown since the invasion, a potboiler entitled The Man Without a Passport. Finally, the familiar visage of Czechoslovakia's white-haired President Ludvík Svoboda flashed onto the screen. In an emotion-laden voice, the old general told his countrymen what most of them had been grimly expecting to hear for months. Alexander Dubček, who last year led his country into its shortlived "Springtime of Freedom...
...most dreams are unconscious responses to recent, emotionally intense experiences. If people are forced to go without REM sleep and its dreams, their ability to handle similar stress experiences the next day declines. In one experiment, Greenberg and two co-workers showed a group of volunteers a grisly bedtime film of an autopsy, measured the emotional tension that the movie provoked, and then let the volunteers have an uninterrupted night's sleep. When the subjects watched the movie again the next day, their reactions were considerably calmer than they had been the first time. But a test group...
...years following the course, McClelland and Winter periodically measured its effect. Some of the case histories, they report, read like Western success stories. A film exhibitor in the city of Kakinada expanded into the ticket-printing business and now supplies 45 theaters in four states. The owner of a small radio shop opened a branch office which he turned over to a woman manager (an unprecedented delegation of responsibility in India), called in an outstanding loan and established a paint and varnish factory...
...aristocrat, wants to flee to America, the middle-class nation par excellence.) Olga, for her part, loses sight of a dominant urge to climb to riches and power by involving herself in true-love affairs. Though both characters come to know the deepest urges of their characters by the film's end, opposing urges push them into contrary actions; the frustration of their desires (partly a consequence of their imperfect self-knowledge) which results, limits and ultimately destroys them...