Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...receives her father's effusive thanks. Sound familiar? Ah, but there's a twist. The smitten young officer takes the marquise's honor himself, while she is in the depths of opium-induced slumber. For the next two hours or so, Rohmer and Kleist provide us with an object lesson in the ways in which rigid social and religious mores can blind people to the obvious. The comedy of manners is beautifully filmed, and Rohmer's skillful, low-key direction prevents the story from degenerating into a farce. But after an hour or so, you'll wish you'd saved...
...FESTIVAL'S highlight is the complete version of Ladislas Starevitch's The Mascot, a fairy tale of innocence astray in a wicked world. The film, made in 1934, is a classic of puppet and object animation. A dew-eyed puppy puppet--who bears a vague resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock--is brought to life by the tears of a dollmaker who is too poor to buy her sick daughter the oranges she dreams of. The dollmaker sends the puppy to be sold in a toy store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate...
...included on the Magic Movies bill. All in a Woman's Day by Jessica Sphon and Amateur Night by Thalia Goldman both strike unfortunate and harsh notes in a program characterized otherwise by cool sophistication and robust humor. Spohn at least handles her satire of women as sex objects with a deft control of her visual material, a collage of advertising images and photographs. But the stress on sadism and bodily functions is insistently strident. Goldman, an Israeli living in London, succeeds only in making her audience uncomfortable with a sketch that involves a humiliating striptease by a skinny ballerina...
...Washington source said yesterday that although Huntington's name is being strongly urged by some members of the new administration, other members of the Carter team have said they would object strongly to his appointment...
...figure of the artist. Casanova has given up his humanity for art; lovemaking is something he must control and design. As a result, he succeeds in giving pleasure to others, but he can only take pleasure in artifice. Indeed, he himself becomes no more than a created object. Fellini's artist, as portrayed in the figure of Casanova, is the golden bird Yeats once envisioned...