Word: serpentes
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...becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge of sexual energy as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with...
...Though the growth of genuine love between them is one of the pleasant parts of this movie, the woman has other problems-a daughter of her own who is a latchkey child and a close woman friend: a despondent revolutionary with a near-psychotic child who is the noisiest serpent in this garden...
...Serpent's Egg. Ingmar Bergman hasn't set a film in a broad, sociological context in a long time. It shows. If this means his next film will be a masterpiece, then it's probably worth it. It doesn't take genius to figure out there's something very, very wrong with this movie, but so many critics have dwelled cruelly and accurately on its short-comings, that I'd like to confine this discussion to the film's good qualities...
...especially in Appalachia; for many people, the school and church are still the only real places of socializing." In her course this spring, she will show her own films of women's participation in Pentecostal groups, which are part of Appalachia's fundamentalist religious revivals, and in the mountain "serpent-handling" cults. She will also screen "Harlan Country USA," Barbara Kopple's movie on the Kentucky coal strike in which the miners' wives played a large role...
...dreaming." In the title cut from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell is still looking around, still trying to lose herself in dreams, in Hell. The song has a dark feel to it, almost predatory, with a driving beat punctuated by sinister, percussive bass notes. Mitchell sings that the serpent in her cannot be denied. But neither can the antithetical pull for clarity and simplicity, for the innocent child within...