Word: sardonicism
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A Man's a Man, by Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions, and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death...
Brecht's sardonic point emerges with ferocious bitterness when the framework of theatrical hocus-pocus is followed firmly and thoroughly," Taubman summarized.
The Last Frontier. An Italian lawyer, stopping over in Los Angeles on his way to Mexico, wanders through the city, meets rich Italian immigrants, becomes involved, and eventually likes what he sees. But the story is of less significance than the cumulative effect of the picture's vignettes-some...
acting as though he considers them meaningless. Democrats running in marginal districts or states have indicated fear of what the Republicans will do with the Teddy issue, capping the picture of the President's other relatives and friends swarming around official Washington. Candidates who feel threatened by this are...
THE JOB (Visconti) probes the boredom and despair of the very rich. A handsome young Milanese count (Thomas Milian) has created a front-page scandal by associating with $1,000-a-night call girls. He fears that the father of his German-born wife Pupe (Romy Schneider) will cut him...