Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...binding is not a book, and the book has been lost in transit. The "I" of Isherwood's Berlin camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth...
Fighting such rebellious material, Author Ashton-Warner's celebrated style -a vibrantly sentient torrent of present-tense sentences and fragments-shows signs of becoming an intrusive mannerism. Bell Call has an even worse flaw...
Bandits of Orgosolo. The shepherds of Sardinia are elemental men. Short, square, silent, they look like the rocks of their rocky land, like faintly sentient boulders. The big island's landowners and the rural police consider them scarcely human and treat them accordingly. The shepherds bear their lot with lithic indifference. All day long they drive their tiny flocks from pasture to sere pasture, working literally like dogs. In the evening they eat curd and flatbread. At night they sleep sometimes in rude stone huts, sometimes on the mountainsides among their sheep. They live for their sheep-they would...
Filmed in blatant color (plenty of raw sienna) in the booming channel city of Boulogne, Muriel delights the eye chiefly in the sentient beauty of Marienbad's Delphine Seyrig. She arrestingly portrays a frightened, fortyish widow who invites her former lover to a reunion after a separation of 22 years. A freeloading weakling and barfly, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien) arrives from Paris accompanied by a young actress he introduces as "my niece." The girl quickly attaches herself to the widow's melancholy stepson, recently returned from the war in Algeria. Soon the unlikely quartet is caught...
...brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely: "We're walking in [obscenity]." The lovers' goal is to reach the sewer's outlet in the Vistula; when they...