Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything in the film could be considered a kind of flashback from this one moment. Mick reassesses his recent life with the new knowledge that the only way to deal with absurdity is to recognize it. Winning that insight, he may be again the lucky...
...Sanders says that he came to Harvard "to bring basketball into the proper perspective as far as winning is concerned." But from all early indications, he brings much more than that. He brings, after five years of turmoil in Harvard basketball, a sense of direction for the program and insight into the nature of the Harvard position. And after five years of frustration, perhaps he brings a chance for productive end to "the great Harvard basketball experiment" as well...
...body of the book pursues -through every novel, play and story, good, bad or silly, that Maugham ever wrote - Calder's all-purpose insight that Maugham was preoccupied with the escape from bondage. Calder has dis covered, for example, that "examined in their entirety, Maugham's works contain over 300 images concerned with liberty or enslavement...
...schoolboy life he made in 1969. When I last saw If..., the night before the world premiere of O Lucky Man!, I felt that the more sensational aspects of the film's ending -- in quasi-surrealism with a chic nihilistic attitude toward revolution -- were beginning to overshadow the basic insight and vitality found in the earlier parts of the film. Anderson's talents as a director of actors still seemed considerable, and the photographic images he produced in collaboration with the Czech cinematographer, Miroslav Ondricek, seemed as striking as when they first appeared, but the fuzzy radicalism Anderson tried...
...gain sufficient distance to see ourselves in the Hollywood mirror, we may hopefully give due recognition to other filmic trains of thought which reflect light on the nature of film as perception, and cultural utterance. Brakhage, as a metaphor for the exploding, embryonic, experimental film ghetto of insight, is an opportunity for those interested in the potential and future for film to discover a most human vehicle of introduction...