Word: inwardness
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movie released so far in 1962, a stylistic tour d'esprit that employs a subtle and modern language of cinema to release a mood and distill a moment of great inward sweetness and intensity...
...Monet's studies of Rouen cathedral are here, as is a small study by Manet after Valazquez, anticipating several later works. A self portrait by Van Gogh captures both the texture of the flesh and the introspection of the personality in precise but broad brush strokes moving inward towards the center of the composition. Van Gogh's' 'Portrait d' une femme employs the medium of oils eloquently in conveying the tactile qualities of an aging woman's face...
...TEMPTATION or DR. ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign...
...Understanding in the heart," said Woodworth, "and wisdom in the inward parts" come "most readily, most surely, most happily" from this vision--which is to be found in "the world of nature" and "in the beauty of music, and poetry, and art, and literature, in the empire of the mind...
Father Castle is convinced that the church in the city must try "to win new-frontiers for Christ." By turning inward and seeking only to survive the "holocaust" of social change, he believes, the Protestant church condemns itself to stagnation and death. "We have to live and work with the people," he says. "Only then, and with much patience and faith, will this become the church it should have been years...