Word: oskar
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...club's first event will be from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Nov. 20 at Oskar's restaurant in Boston, with a live jazz band for entertainment...
...show. Its curator, Stephanie Barron, in 1991 created a survey named "Degenerate Art." Her subject then was the censorship, repression and persecution of modern artists in Hitler's Germany, culminating in the infamous "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") show of 1937, in which hundreds of works by artists from Oskar Kokoschka to Henri Matisse were pilloried with insulting wall labels. "Exiles and Emigres" is the sequel to Barron's earlier exhibition. With her associate, the German scholar Sabine Eckmann, Barron sets out to describe the exodus of European modernist artists (and architects, musicians, scholars, photographers and writers) from Germany and France...
Following is his rendition of the Crimson Key Society's commentary upon one "typically uplifting movie," "Schindler's List," in which Oskar Schindler attempts to save German Jews from the gas chambers and crematoriums that awaited them in concentration camps during the Second World...
...about. With a 6-ft. 4-in. frame and a face that is memorably poetic in its asymmetry, Neeson, 44, has always possessed movie-star aura. But it took Hollywood nearly a decade to figure out how to capture it. By the time Neeson landed the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's monumental Holocaust elegy, the Irish actor had already appeared in 23 mostly unheralded films. And yet, even though Schindler's List won Neeson the kind of praise and splashy recognition (including an Oscar nomination for Best Actor) that had long eluded him, it was a film...
...Oskar Fischinger, an exceptional draughtsman and a refugee from Nazi Germany, also celebrated the vocation of music with film. His clean-lined shapes forsake any of Bute's occasional moodiness for a robust interpretation. Fischinger spent hours making the film "An Optical Poem" by filming suspended paper cut-outs. Using a chicken feather on a stick, and the young John Cage as an assistant, he moved exposure by exposure through a film whose vigor belies none of this inch-work. His use of symphony music and the theatrical quality of his compositions lend his short films the feel of Disney...