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In The Lessons of History, the Durants do not set themselves up as oracles. On the contrary, they are disarmingly honest in admitting that all historians operate with partial knowledge, and that any belief that they can examine a past epoch with total perspective is largely an optical illusion. "Most...
Flight. As Stephanie's guest, Stanley plunges into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The...
Godard calls cinema "truth twenty-four times a second," a debatable point when we consider that the foundation of film technique, both narrative and experimental, is still that of montage, the art of putting shots together to convey something other than that conveyed by each individual shot--an art of...
Finally, a camera style of slow and balanced moving shots is, successfully executed, one of the great joys of narrative film. When Chris goes to Paul to reassure him in a scene discussed earlier, Chabrol cuts together shots already in motion, joining a shot moving left in a circular are...
Bunko Anyway. Reaching out for the newly affluent swinging set closer to home, the dowager of Knightsbridge underwent some startling changes during the last couple of years. They seem to have paid off. "The illusion that Harrods' customers were all duchesses was always bunko anyway," says a titled store...