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...which the author describes as “a studied insult to the assembled clergy” that “rubbed salt into the raw wounds from the debate over miracles.” He dramatically unfolds Andrew Norton’s inflamed response, as well as George Ripley??s defense of Emerson’s assertions. But despite Gura’s clear and interesting analysis of such specific academic debates, it is at times easy to lose the thread of his narrative as it jumps from one leader of the movement to another and from...
Saturday, April 9. Cavani’s Ripley??s Game (U.S., 2002). 7 p.m.; Wenders’ The American Friend (Germany, 1977). 9:30 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets available at the Harvard Film Archive...
Game is written and directed by Liliana Cavani (best known for 1974’s classic Nazi-sadomasochism sex fantasy The Night Porter) and her touch shows. She gives Ripley??s relationship with his Italian girlfriend a tender eroticism that makes his evil all the more human and frightening: it’s clear that he thinks of himself as an intelligent sophisticate living the life of his dreams, with no remorse. It is because he is so capable of love—of women, art and food, life’s finer pleasures—that...
...Reeves the name of local British expat framer Jonathon Trevanny (MI:2’s Dougray Scott). Trevanny has recently committed the cardinal sin: At a cocktail party, he said that “the problem with Ripley is too much money and no taste,” within Ripley??s range of hearing. In return, Ripley decides to play a game. Can he kill two birds with one stone: take revenge against Trevanny and aid Reeves simultaneously by turning Jonathon—a sweet family man devoted to his beautiful wife and young son—into...
...comparison with Talented, Game is more successful at translating Highsmith’s perception of humanity’s inhuman depths: We watch and cheer as Trevanny loses everything for Ripley??s amusement. Malkovich is so dispassionate that life and death become just another game...