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Ancient Rome--with a few side rips to Egypt--makes terrific fodder for Pudding material. If all else fails, after all, you can throw in a Roman numeral joke: "Take V," the taskmaster tells his crew. Or a hieroglyphic joke "Feather before squiggly line except after bird...
...Electra publicans (Aaron R. Zelman '95), and her Yale-educated slave Lucinda Lipps (J.P. Anderson '95). (She's Yale-educated, and she's a slave Get it?) They scheme to get Electra's airheaded daughter, Caesonia Phase (Adam D. Feldman '95) interested in the would be successor to the Roman throne, nerdy Nero Sited (Thomas F. Giordano...
directed by Roman Polanski...
Well, at this stage it doesn't take much intuition to guess that the eponymous tenant, Trokovsky (Roman Polanski), runs with the third option during his Parisian flathunt. Which would be fine, were the film to intrigue us by exploring the roots of his fixation with the dead woman. But unfortunately the only exploring we do is of the gloomy apartment and of the toilet opposite--where a series of unknown characters stand motionless for hours, staring at our hero. As these onlookers pushed Trokovsky steadily round the bend, the film's unanswered questions drove me equally mad with curiosity...
...days, art history was very Western-focused and was based on the idea of progressive evolution--that Egyptian art led to Roman art which eventually led to twentieth-century art forms," Winter says...