Word: lust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love life of two brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious...
...Peace isn't half as bad as people say it is. Continuous at the U.T. Brattle presents Emil Jannings' Last Laugh and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Giant, Lust for Life, and Rififi are still around in town...
...Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...
...healthy, composed sensualist in his bearing. And he sometimes is not quite able to convey Van Gogh's frightening intensity. Anthony Quinn is excellent as Paul Gauguin, one of Van Gogh's few friends, but one-time stockbroker Gauguin was not so savage as he is shown in Lust for Life. The other acting is generally commendable, especially that of James Doland, who plays Van Gogh's brother Theo, a Paris art dealer who was the only person that thought Van Gogh a great artist during his thirty-seven-year lifetime (in which he did eight hundred paintings, but sold...
...some extent, unavoidable in a work of this scope. It is partly remedied by the extensive use of Van Gogh's letters to his brother. The movie does not greatly misrepresent Van Gogh, and fortunately focuses more upon the man as an artist than upon his mental aberrations. Lust for Life is a highly satisfying movie biography and art film...