Word: occulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtues of lucidity, calm and mésure. An extraordinary number of strands are braided and involved in Pollock's work, from Indian sand painting to the theory of Jungian archetypes, from Zen calligraphy to El Greco, from American jazz and Western landscape to the doctrines of various occult religions...
From this nonsense emerges an eerie, seductive thriller that works equally as a mordant police procedural, an occult horror story and an ambivalent look at aborigines fighting for tradition in the technological age. Dialogue is cynical and the cast beguilingly quirky, notably Albert Finney as a detective and Gregory Hines as a manic, mock-suave coroner. Visual effects evoke for the audience the heightened senses of a preternatural predator...
...balanced. The movie is ostensibly about the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant, a mystical vessel rumored to hold the remains of the tablets of Moses and possessing an awesome power. The year is 1936, and the U.S. government has learned that Hitler, a fanatic about the occult, has a team of storm troopers led by the opportunistic French archeologist Belloq, searching for the Ark. To counteract this threat, the government employs Indiana Jones, an improbably handsome archeology teacher and part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty...
...growing vogue in Paris at the time was for occult imagery, Rosicrucianism, superstition, nuance-anything but the aim of pointillism, which was to state and quantify visual sensation as "objectively" as possible...
...personalities often lead to mysterious deaths in Spark's worlds. She does not, however, create repetitively leaden conflicts between the bold and the puny. Power is ephemeral--it is never the sole right of an individual. "It is all demonology and to do with creatures of air." Ronald, sometime occult victor and sometimes victim in The Bachelors, observes, as the wheels of power spin dizzily about his head, whirring and clicking, bobbing back and forth with no point but endless effect...