Word: gothicisms
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Despite some genuinely inventive work with a one-way mirror, the last half of the film is grade Z gothic explicitly and ludicrously prefaced by a shot of Nero reading Poe. The story defines a specific supernatural cause-a young nymphomaniac (Italian gothic being more open than the American kind) dead these thirty years-for the hero's obsessions and the events that keep animating the house. Instead of taking quantities of diverse experiences, and showing us the ways we process this material and the ways it obsesses us, the film turns its cultural matter to sensationalist ends, and obstructs...
Savoring Keaton's films, the late James Agee once wrote: "Barring only the best of Chaplin, they seem to me the most wonderful comedies ever made." The comparison is inescapable; the two geniuses dominated silent comedy. The difference in their styles was marked: Chaplin, the gothic Pagliacci, wore his art upon his sleeve. Much as he wanted laughter, he craved significance more. Keaton was too busy with sight gags to realize that he was a major surrealist...
...those of the Doria, Colonna and Pallavicini families in Rome, the Corsini and Serristori in Florence and the Cini family in Venice. Still, Professor Mario Salmi, vice president of the Consiglio Superiore delle Antichità e Belle Arti, says firmly: "It is undoubtedly the finest private collection of Italian Gothic and Renaissance art made after 1900 in Italy...
Every nation in Europe glories in its monuments to faith and civilization. For centuries now, pilgrims and art lovers have lingered in reverence before the dazzling domed temples of Byzantine Ravenna, the Gothic splendors of Canterbury and Chartres, the sinuous harmonies of the Baroque churches of Saragossa, Vienna and Prague. But few tourists have yet made their way to Moldavia, a distant province of northern Rumania, where some of the loveliest churches in Europe are clustered (see color pages). The churches of Moldavia are exceptional not only for their beauty but for how they are treated by the Communist state...
...Aces. Because she comes from and writes about California, one would not at first associate her with the neo-Gothic literature of the South. Yet she has, in fact, brought the Southern mentality west. In a revealing essay about her native Sacramento Valley, she mourns the passing of a comfortable, interlocking gentry that were her ancestry. They built manor houses amidst their vast fields of hops and tomatoes, ignoring post-World War II newcomers who brought real estate developments and aerospace factories-until the parvenus usurped their world. Like Faulkner, Didion has an overwhelming awareness of human corruption...