Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furious, Lena picks a fight with Börje, who takes off back to the city in his MG. At film's end, the two have paid a joint visit to a delousing clinic and have effected a kind of Pirandellian reconciliation, applying less to their roles in the movie than to their extracurricular relationship. Intercut with this dreary dramaturgy are endless man-on-the-street interviews conducted by Lena ("Do you think that Swedish society has a class system?" "Do you belong to the labor movement?") and lots of shots of Sjöman making the film...
Demy does in fact use the back streets and alleys of Los Angeles to maximum tacky effect. His characters, however, have far less meaning than the "Eats" and "Service" signs. Although many of the same people recur in each of his films -Lola, for example, was both the subject and the title of his first feature-they have about as much depth as wallpaper. Indeed, Demy uses his characters like wallpaper, merely as human interior decoration. Anouk Aimee is lovely and gracious as Lola, but her seductive simplicity is too hard-edged for Demy's blurry art nouveau. Dressed...
...study conducted last week by the committee found that less than ten per cent of the students eating in Lehman Hall are actually members of Duedly House. The dining hall, designed to hold 200 people at one time, handles an average of 900 people per day during the lunch hours, the study showed...
Their logic wasn't perfectly structured or systemized; their actions and attitudes represented an idealism to which few people can relate, much less aspire. But the all-pervasive, potentially-disastrous effects of our present process of socialization were made clear to anyone who took the time to understand these three people. Their presence gathered more people together, and stimulated a more meaningful exchange to ideas, than any other episode I've been involved in since coming to Harvard. It was an exciting, inspiring experience for me to be exposed to people who had perceived a small part of an ultimate...
...BERGMAN finds less horror in men destroying men than in a man destroying himself. Maybe he feels war, in its horror, teaches something to those who are left--while a man's war with his own brain can never leave any survivors...