Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also find passion that rings true, as on "I'll Do Anything...
...that depend on the irrational rather than the rational; to disparage that would be to blunder into an ageless debate over the merits of faith versus reason--a debate that shows no signs of resolving itself. But there is something unsettling about the way Spielberg and Lucas, in their passion for faith, take pot-shots at reason...
Only her hairdresser knew the zeal with which Barbra Streisand, 40, had committed herself to her new film, Yentl. The independent-woman- vs.-repressive-society yarn is based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 78. When the actress read the tale, "It became a passion, along with the conviction that I was the person best able to communicate the story to audiences." Streisand took her mission seriously. The screenwriter? Why not get the best? How about Barbra Streisand? Director? How does Barbra Streisand sound? Producer? Well, there's always Barbra Streisand. And finally, what about someone...
...prestigious festival drew to a close last week at the composer's shrine in Germany, the passion and the controversy were not only to be found in the audience. Fortunately, they could be seen in the new productions as well. The Götz Friedrich staging of Parsifal, produced in honor of the opera's centenary, is a deeply pessimistic view of Wagner's valedictory ode to the redemptive power of Christianity. Colored in stark blacks, whites and grays, it takes place in what appears to be a gigantic mausoleum. More radical was Jean-Pierre Ponnelle...
...usually thinks of sexual obsession as an undetected virus of the soul, a bug caught some time in the formative years but remaining dormant until some temporary weakness of the mind or spirit permits it to break loose. Surely such a classic pathology lies behind the unexpected passion that afflicts the otherwise kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged...