Word: orpheus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Orpheus...
...casualness is deceptive in such a disciplined musician. Too many conductors today strive for originality but end up either with mere visceral excitement or drab sterility. Levine succeeds by being disarmingly strict regarding what the score says in black and white and delightfully lyrical, like Orpheus, among the gray shades of interpretation...
...SECOND half of his book the author adopts a variety of personae, from Orpheus to Luther to Satan himself, to demonstrate both the range and limitations of dialectical argument. In a mock soliloquy titled "Shorthand Transcript of a Metaphysical Press Conference Given by the Demon in Warsaw, on 20th December 1963," Kolakowski impersonates Satan in a remarkable exhibition of incontestable sophistry; he argues for his own existence in a discredulous age along the lines that his very strength lies in the fact that he does not exist. In other soliloquies, notably in one given by Abelard's Heloise in defense...
HARVARD SQUARE, THURS. Black Orpheus 3, 6:15, 9:35; Beauty and the Beast, 1:30, 4:45, 8:05; FRI. The Seventh Seal, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Room Service, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15; SAT. Wild Strawberries, 2:35, 6, 9:25; Rules of the Game, 4:10, 7:35; SUN. Virgin Spring, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10; Grand Illusion, 1:30, 4:55, 8; MON. Blue Angel, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Le Jour Se Leve, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15; TUE. Ivan the Terrible...
...brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars...