Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French school--German school alternative. Nothing cou'd be more Germanic than these fifteenth century prints. Even if Durer and his contemporaries hadn't the horrors of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Third Reich to motivate them, they found substance for equally dramatic expression in the Apocalypse, the Christ passion, or even in a coat of arms of death...
Paths of Glory. A passion out of fashion, antimilitarism, is vented by a gifted new director, 29-year-old Stanley Kubrick (TIME...
...refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist who has just refused to go on helping to make the basalt bomb. Each in his own way understands something of Morel's strange passion...
...might be pornographic. It is based on Emile Zola's early novel, Thérèse Raquin, a somber slice of life that was called pornographic as soon as it came out. Neither book nor movie is. Written with Naturalist Zola's unfailing passion for the sordid underside of reality, the book showed how illicit love led to murder, how murder turned love to hate, how hate led to plots of new murders, and how a couple of suicides ended the whole bloody business. The movie plucks the story from the hands of fate and throws...
Public & Private Man. In Dickens, the Victorian world came face to face with genius in its most overwhelming form, approaching the borders of madness and self-destruction. "No gentleman" was the well-bred Victorian's verdict on Dickens-confirmed when his home broke up because of his passion for Actress Ellen Ternan. But Thackeray was a gentleman-"as polished as a steel mirror and as cold," "a natural swell," a Platonic lover who politely bowed himself out of his passion for a married woman when her husband objected. In public, Thackeray came to represent everything that Dickens derided...