Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some footless side path and leaves it mired and mangled. The text is not sacred Mosaic law, but it is more than a pretext for whimsical directorial pranks. Peter Brook is not that kind of man. He looks before he makes his exciting leaps. He wants a theater of passion and directs his plays to that end. At his best, he is flamboyantly faithful to his own finest dramatic aphorism: "A play is play...
...York has always had its detractors, and out-of-towners often find odd comfort and perverse joy in discussing its faults and inconveniences. But many people who once loved the city are now regretfully finding their passion growing cold. "There's a morale factor that's missing," says Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, "that magic and loveliness I used to adore. More than ever, the people are not lovely, or gentle, or likely to say 'excuse me.' It's as though New York no longer feels loved." While New Yorkers may feel...
...small provincial town: Claire Lannes kills her middleaged, deaf-mute cousin for no apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies who are young no longer, neglected or betrayed by their husbands...
...FILM does not pursue this ambiguity faithfully: Nolan's professionalism is allowed to lapse into bursts of more conventional anger and passion. This is a concession to history, since the real Captain Nolan seems to have been as tempermental and irrational as his superiors, a fact which was largely responsible for the fatal Charge itself. But it is a concession which obscures the most interesting action of the story, which is the frightfully painful transition from the age of chivalry to that of total war--from Waterloo to Verdun...
...disconnected episodes, the narrator of Steps reveals a condition of obsession that is all the more horrifying because of its controlled willfulness and absence of passion and spontaneity. He lures a young girl away from her village with a deck of credit cards. He observes sodomy between a woman and a "large animal" and wonders whether her cries are just part of the act. He hovers over the body of a woman wasting away with TB. He humiliates a girl by talking on the telephone while making love to her. In another episode, he is again...