Word: personnae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jonathan. a German vampire flick that barely qualifies as kitsch. The film is tinted nauseous blue, the camera pans at a nauseous pace. If that isn't sickening enough, the movie lacks everything from narrative to a personna--to a reason for being. Harvard Square...
...Personna. One of Bergman's greatest if not his most difficult films. The theme of doubling is played out formally, and as a psychological crisis of being between two women. The film defies meaning. At bottom it is an exploration into how deeply something can be known, and an assertion that total knowing in the end means self-destruction. The personnae, to survive, need to preserve the integrity of their masks. Because on the other side of the masks lies absolute cruelty. Brattle Theatre...
...controls James Beam distillers, Duffy-Mott foods and Swingline, a maker of stapling machines. Liggett & Myers, which has moved into liquor, pet foods and household cleaners, gets just over half of its sales outside the tobacco field. Philip Morris owns Miller High Life beer, Clark chewing gum and Personna razor blades...