Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Blake once divided up the districts of England in the form of a giant man. The same could be done for America: the Northeast is the nervous system, the Midwest the muscles, the South the spirit and the emotions, and the West-well, the gonads...
...penetrating analysis would not have been possible, McCarthy claims, had not Celine himself felt an overwhelming need to hate. In other words, Celine's anti-semitism amounted to a more virulent manifestation of the sensibility that even his detractors found riveting and considered essentially harmless in its purely literary form...
Salt of the Earth. A highlight of the women and work film series, this film was made by blacklisted Hollywood directors in the fifties about a strike in a Chicano mining town in the southwest. The strikers themselves form the cast for this extraordinary documentary which conveys in all its intensity the importance of union struggles for people who face the entire weight of a discriminatory and oppressive society arrayed against them, from mineowners to the goonish forces of law and order they control. But the unusual aspect of this film is its focus on women's participation...
Line not only verbalizes but dramatizes movement in the common scenes from simple life. "Straining Vinegar" is staged with elaborate painterly choreography and blocking. The energy directed into the jars from the table in the form of flowing vinegar is channeled by all forms in the painting. "Flowing" becomes a drama...
...images in Autumn form brilliant thematic patterns. In the first chapter we see unforgettably "dead craters of harsh moon ash on the endless plain where the sea had been," we hear "a disaster of hoofs and animal sighs from behind the fortified walls," we smell "the lunar dust-covered rosebuds under which the lepers had slept." Such descriptions return to haunt us, as they do the patriarch; they are fragments of a real or created past, the whole of which we do not know and he has forgotten...