Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer theaters around the country al ways see a scattering of new works - many of them destined for oblivion, but some perhaps heading for Broadway. Among this month's tryouts...
Bresson is never quite as simple as his subjects would seem. Michel's belief that the two men who wish to "save" him are set upon trapping him and his near oblivion to the intent of the man who does put him in jail is a perfect reflection of the total situation. Attempting to damn himself by committing what he considers to be the lowest of actions, Michel ends up being trapped into salvation. Bresson thus transforms a simple story into a discussion of the power of man as opposed to that...
...embodiment of evil, is man's healthiest prototypical projection of his own radical intention to challenge the gods-in fact, to become God. All humbling conceptions of man's relationship to the unknown, the author insists, are bad. Even the Hindu's striving for the oblivion of nirvana, he asserts, is a subtle passive-resistance ploy to achieve godhood...
...more than a decade, Charles de Gaulle imperiously blocked Europe's search for unity. Under his repeated rebuffs, most notably of Britain's attempt to enter the Common Market in 1963, the ideal of unification withered almost to the point of oblivion. Last week a fresh voice spoke from Paris. It was that of Premier Jacques Chaban-Del-mas. Reflecting the new policy of President Georges Pompidou, Chaban-Del-mas declared: "We are ready to go as fast and as far in the quest of European unification as our partners." To prove France's change of heart...
...artistic talent. A great director has something more: the vision and force to make all these disparate elements fuse into an inspired whole. In The Seventh Seal, Bergman had Death lead a troupe of clowns, obedient to a will larger than their own, across the dusky horizon to oblivion. The scene, still indelible in the minds of most viewers, somehow lifts cinema into the realm of philosophy, psychology and even religion...