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Reared in his family's Episcopal faith, Michael became deeply interested in theology as an undergraduate at Wake Forest College, a Baptist school in North Carolina. Now he is a first-year student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., though he does not plan to become a minister...
CATHEDRAL: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay. 80 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral, from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay, a young architect, uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches, accompanied by a brief, clear narrative. He shows how to design and build a flying buttress, cast a bell in bronze, use the mortise-and-tenon method on the roof beams. By changing his viewpoint, he also powerfully conveys the immense rook-filled...
...cattle, and immediately pans in on the cloven hooves scuffing through the dusty soil. Thereby Rooks has introduced what turns out to be a major motif in the movie--feet. The film's fascination with this part of the anatomy is endless. When Siddhartha pads solemnly through the forest in search of you know what, we become familiar with his dirty toes. And when Siddhartha has 'crossed the river" (this, by the way, is symbolic) into the fleshpots of the city, countless heels dance decadently across expensive rugs...
This is all fine, especially for Siddhartha, who has no possessions, magically lives off the forest, and is automatically taken into the bosom of every household and every bed he approaches in his travels without so much as an introduction. But when the implication is that "this is all ye know and need to know"--the ultimate panacea--one wonders about the starving Indian peasants who this film loves to display dancing and smoking dope: They're in rags, but they're spiritually free...
...PRODUCED, directed and edited the film, creates a world that rings true both as history and as cinema. His soft colors and elegant camerawork belie a willingness to experiment for chilling or striking effects such as the visual echo of quick cuts which shatters the silence of the forest when Karl-Oscar's younger brother Robert shoots what he believes is an Indian warrior. In his control of natural images, his imagination and sense of the complex relations of individuals to social processes, Troell comes closer to Bergman than any other current director. He edges near the best Faulkner, imaginatively...