Word: romanticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The second plot, the one that dominates the film, concerns the inspector's blossoming romance with one Antoine Lemercier, played by Philippe Noiret. M. Lemercier teaches classical Greek literature at the Sorbonne, and after a (literal) chance run-in on the streets, he a Lise discover that they were college...
Finally, non-French speaking filmgoers will be glad to know that Dear Inspector features a really good set of subtitles. Usually, English-bound viewers of French films get the feeling that they are definitely missing something, but this time the titles capture most of its dialogue and all of its...
Its loud, hard-driving music notwithstanding, The Buddy Holly Story is at heart a very old-fashioned film. As Robert Gittler's fictionalized script follows Holly's rise from obscurity in Lubbock. Texas, to national superstardom, it embraces all the romantic clichés of showbiz success sagas...
Although it has had its strong detractors over the years, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is for many the finest comedy in our language. It was the climax of a series of three romantic comedies written in quick succession; Shakespeare learned much from the experience of writing the inferior Much Ado...
Essays on surrealism, the mimetic faculty, Brecht and the Austrian polemicist Karl Kraus support Hannah Arendt's claim that Benjamin was the most important German critic between the world wars. His romantic attachment to anarchy and violence as messianic salvations may remind some readers of Norman Mailer at his...