Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TEA PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In all Harold Pinter plays the surface is never the substance, and the meaning lies in the eye and mind of the beholder. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is pushed into what may be his death throes by the interactions of...
Danger: Diabolik. So you've never heard of Danger: Diabolik, or for that matter anything else by Mario Bava, Italy's greatest hack (Black Friday, Planet of the Vampires, Kill Baby Kill). In the tradition of Edgar G. Ulmer and the more outlandishly-scripted Charbol melodramas, Bava films wretched nonsense...
The legend of Lylah Clare was met by complete critical indifference and/or scorn and generally written off as a disaster. Well, film critics don't know anything about anything, as everyone knows, and Robert Aldrich has (perhaps inadvertently) put together a sensational picture. Lest potential Aldrich cultists get their hopes...
The Light Company, "a theatre of political controversy and contemporary humor," is trying desperately to solve the problem, but as yet has failed to find the solution. Unlike The Proposition, which thrives on set and improvised satirical sketches, the Light Company has taken its format less from Second City and...
AND WE FIND the necessary basis for our analysis of the meaning of an experience in a given moment is a belief in the idea that some sort of change or progress is being made. If we were to take a given moment (say, now), looked around us, and tried...