Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seen in relation to Polanski's previous work, Rosemary's Baby is distressing. Given that his films concern human isolation and the problems therein, Polanski stopped looking for solutions with Cul-de-sac which ends hopelessly with all relationships breaking down and everyone left in their own tortured hell. Not content to leave his films in limbo, Polanski seems to offer a solution to isolation by affirming the brotherhood of devil worship and the black forces, rather than warning us of their existence...
...Seen in isolation, The Fearless Vampire Killers is just a bad joke: a little kid's desire to let the bad guys win for once as realized by a thirty-year-old adolescent mentality. But Rosemary's Baby is on their side too; the witches win, Rosemary accepts Satan's spawn as her son, and Polanski's careful dating of 1966 as the year One (the black calendar beginning with the birth of the son of Satan) suggests that 1968 is the year Three, that all things malevolent are heartily thriving...
...received his Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963. But his was only the last lap. The first million miles were traveled by Eddie Anderson, Stepin' Fetchit, Willie Best, Butterfly McQueen and other gifted actors whose long ride in the back of the bus can be seen again every week on television...
...that Davis' flat shapes seem to hang away from the wall and look very much like twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect is achieved by using "bird's-eye perspective," a method that relies on three vanishing points instead of one. Though long known, it was rarely used before the 20th century came along with its airplanes and skyscrapers. The viewer thus placed...
THERE is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock." Nothing that has happened to me since equals the power and the glory that I sometimes felt when . . . the church and I were one. Their pain and their joy were mine, and mine were theirs...