Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calling for the strongest possible voting bill, protection for demonstrators in Alabama, and vigorous enforcement of Title VI of the 1940 Civil Rights Act, which denies Federal funds to enterprises practicing racial discrimination. The Ministry has already received assurances of support from Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass). Rep. Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass) and Rep. Williams H. Bates (R-Mass...
...creaky ante bellum mansion where Charlotte has lived in unkempt seclusion for decades has to be torn down to make way for a bridge. "Dollin' Cousin" Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) arrives to help Dr. Drew (Joseph Gotten) handle the crisis and learns firsthand that the good old days are far from over. That night, in Miriam's closet, a dress is slashed to ribbons. Soon a head rolls out of a box, a hand starts picking out tunes in the music room, and heaven only knows where a body will turn...
...series of scream-in-the-night shocks, the better to batten a script strikingly short of sneakier surprises. In Charlotte's formula for terror, the nuttiest characters naturally turn out to be saner than anyone else. But there is rich menace in the dark, lushly mossy photography of Joseph Biroc, whose camera seems to have a malevolent presence of its own-a thing of shadows, catching the glint of an evil eye through the gossamer of steamed windows or sweeping up a curved balustrade that coils into the blackness below like an enormous question mark...
Taken scene by scene, the film shows matchless artistry. When the handyman Joseph rapes and murders a neighborhood child he encounters in the woods, violence is unearthed with horror, poetry and compassion in one brief shot of snails inching across the dead girl's leg. In another agonizing sequence, the lady of the manor haltingly discusses her frigidity and her husband's unusual demands with an acquisitive young priest who prefers to talk about repairs for the church roof. "1 can only stress that for you there must be no pleasure," he offers distractedly...
Though the triumph of mean-spirited men is clearly Buñuel's theme, he seems perversely unable or unwilling to settle accounts with the chambermaid, his pivotal character. She spurns her master, loves the murdered child, seduces the sadistic Joseph, promises to marry him, turns him over to the gendarmes with some show of regret, and finally marries the boor next door. Miraculously, Actress Moreau performs a contradictory role with an air of wry and knowing detachment, as if she were privy to soul-deep secrets that even the best directors can only guess...