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Brain Coral. The illusion of hardcore Dada, that art could change politics, never took root in him. With profound and wry dignity, Schwitters accepted the contradictions and limits of revolutionary art. Change art and you do not change the world, he admitted. But, he would have added, anyone must work...
Middle-class ennui in a faltering social system is certainly an acceptable subject for a film, and even an imperfect treatment is far better than another commercial exploitation of the revolution. The subject, though, is too vague and ill-defined to be reduced to the microcosm of three lives. In...
Cassavetes makes the trip to London a critical turning point of middle age, a forced decision between a return to marriage and an escape to illusion. But he senses that the problem is too complex to be resolved. So he skips entirely the scene toward which the whole film has...
SOME societies are dominated by the past; America seems obsessed by the future. No sooner is a President elected than commentators begin to estimate his chances next time around. Hours after the discovery of a trend, someone is predicting how and when it will end and what will take its...
Kim, who masterminded all the "exercises," has caught this feeling completely. There is no sense of a flow of time. but rather of wandering about within it. In the small segment of film (by Alfred Guzzetti), each image is followed by its after-image in optical illusion. The framed faces...