Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard-Epworth films has started a series of all the films of Luis Bunuel, starting with his earliest, the 24-minute silent film Un Chien Andalou (1924), which he made with Salvador Dali. Bunuel had a surrealistic vision from the start, but his surrealism became politicized after a period of time. Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) was commissioned by the Spanish government, but its political ideas were offensive to its commissioners, and so the film was banned in Spain soon after it was made. Simon of the Desert (1965) was made after his politics had grown mellower--though not quite...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn's voice is stilled, the wilderness of silent acceptance becomes deeper. The voices of free people everywhere must resound to save this eloquent voice. The chains still remain and must be severed link by heavy link. The liberty of one man can be a decisive...
...Mistakes: a maid plunges into the hotel room while John is naked--one laughs, but with an echo. Coincidences: as John and Laura pass through an archway a shutter slams shut in the house above. Incidentals: in the wash room where Laura meets the two women sits a silent, Goyaesque attendant dressed in black, with an air of inexplicable mockery like the warning figures early in Death in Venice...
...king controls his subjects' every emotion. There is little feeling in the spoken lines, although both Sutherland and Julie Christie are superb--all is silent, seen. The love scene, where shots of lovemaking are intercut with shots of the couple, gentle and mirrored, dressing afterwards, makes love a way of looking at (even mundane) things, and shows how sex suffuses the whole life together. It is a stunning demonstration of why film, in the right hands, is such an erotic medium, and by the way it magically holds itself apart from the surrounding sense of the sinister, reinforces our sense...
MILES. That's right, Miles Davis. This music--Tony William's, John McLaughlin's, Chick Corea's, Herbie Hancock's, Joe Zawinul's--is his music and these men are his sons. All have done some time with Miles--the late, post-In a Silent Way Miles, the Miles who claims the influence of Sly Stone--and owing to their own ambitions and Miles's idiosyncracies, have since gone out on their own. The result is a music of distinct generations, like later San Francisco rock. But unlike those rock bands, who finally managed to develop reasonably unique personae, Miles...