Word: parisians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gasparovic never ceases to change styles, using strictly charcoal in some sequences, splashing on the reds and pastels in others; now he moves the camera, now the subject. Pianos eat, and heads move independent of bodies; this strange world defies definition, adding a new dimension to Parisian impressionism: the paintings can move. The film ends with a stunning reproduction of a Van Gogh wheatfield; a flock of ravens flies to the foreground and the frame freezes...
...Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). In his final work, the ailing Berlioz took Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and made it into his own Tempest, a blend of wit, ardor and gentle sadness bathed in the amber light of a late Parisian afternoon. The opera may be better heard than seen, since its extended passages of French dialogue make it problematical to stage; certainly it is a pleasure in this buoyant, graceful version by Davis, with Baker as a captivating Béatrice...
...issues about the role of the writer in American society were raised. As Granville Hicks has written, the central tension for the American artist has been one of "struggle or flight": whether to stay in this country and make an artistic go of it, or gratefully withdraw to some Parisian garret. Partisan Review editors--and William Phillips was chief among them--chose to stay and struggle during the 1930s. Their magazine represented one attempt by intellectuals to provide a forum in society for the dispossessed artist...