Word: reals
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This is the piece of human garbage that Peter Lempert is given to play, and, with the exception of a number of scenes where he is just a bit too hysterical, he plays them well. Despite the fact that Dustin Hoffman popularized the role, Lempert's Zoditch is so real, with his thin face, his pointed nose, his beady little eyes, and a body and limbs that curl and twist like those of a man old before his time, that it is virtually impossible to imagine anyone else in the part. What Lempert does best is comedy, and, though Zoditch...
...Leacock, Pennebaker, and the brothers Maysles have identified themselves with the the cinemaverite movement. According to their work, cinemaverite's "truthfulness" requires a chance meeting between subject and camera, where there is no time to bother with meaningful composition or cogent verbal statements. They assume that neither occurs in "real" life and thus has no place in "truth cinema". For them the presence of the camera (cinema) is only another aspect of truth, one which is expressed either by incessant zooms or reflections of the camera in the nearest mirror. Their films never appear to be structured, since this would...
Certain similarities between Chris Marker's The Koumiko Mystery and the American documentaries seem to imply a common basic premise. The choice of "real" subject matter, the use of television programs and political commentary, the inclusion of footage which could not have been preplanned (the Tokyo Olympic Games for example), and the apparently random way Marker orders his material suggest the same realities as do the Americans...
Some people in the Resistance really thought that we would be able to stop Hershey's machine. Hershey's real problem though was not how to find 500,000 men to send to Vietnam but how to channel the other 11,000,000 into activities for the national interest. The Resistance strategy was bound to fail but a lot was learned about what not to do in the future...
...uglier the better, because (and this is where the inexorable logic of the human heart denies the overwhelming evidence of history) man is soon to become the swan. What kind of swan? Well, the speculation forms the basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their respective cults, offer variants on the theme. Man, either as an individual or as a society, is still in his adolescence. He is yet to attain a simpler kind of community...