Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT is a creaky Western comedy that features a lot of painful cracker-barrel dialogue and a superb, self-mocking performance by John Wayne, who at 62 has never seemed more like The Duke...
...young boy who is in the center of the film is caught in a home of pervading ugliness and static emotional vacuity. Trapped in the background at a dinner table which serves only as a battleground for his parents (a grotesque self-parody these since they are played by Cahbrol himself and his beautiful actress wife Stephan Audran), he tries to escape first by minor acts of destruction and finally by placing plugs in his ears. After he does so, Chabrol repeates scenes we have witnessed earlier, only this time without sound. As expressed by a slightly closer camera...
...Paris Vu Par, Straub has never developed a dynamic sense of the frame, one which puts people, settings, and objects in a framework where they interact. The critical consciousness of the French directors literally make their films what they are. For Straub it is not critical consciousness but self-consciousness. The difference between Paris Vu Par and not Reconciled is the difference between well applied film theory and hastily applied Ideas About Film
Greeting Cards. It appears that to enter into the mysterious personality from which the poems came, as well as the problem of why the poems were so few, it is necessary not only to know Crane but to know his divorced parents as well. His father, a successful self-made candy manufacturer, was the inventor of Life Savers; his mother, unhappy, nervous, was preternaturally possessive. Crane and each of his parents, Unterecker explains, "concerned with immense problems, anxiously kept them from the other two." Yet each kept "guessing and misunderstanding the motives and actions of the others." To know this...
...illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain a little in dignity...