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Just after intermission, Guthrie was awarded with a "Courage of Conscience" Peace Award, granted by The Life Experience School and Peace Abbey. After the solemn awarding, Guthrie quipped: "I thought I was dead there for a moment...
...With its solemn narration and nostalgic tone, "A River Runs Through It" resembles that sub-genre of the "American tragedy" that seems to be very popular in high school literature courses - stories like John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" or S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders." A pall hangs over much of the film as the audience tries to guess which of the two brothers will meet an untimely...
...that we must improve the moral and ethical base of our society by teaching the proper values to the younger generation. Yet this guy has treated the presidential election and the fate of the nation like a game. He deserted oodles of volunteers to whom he had made a solemn promise. And, after committing to pay his campaign workers through the November election after he dropped out, he soon reneged on that promise as well...
...Gothic is austere, primal, bony architecture, nowhere near as decorated as French or English. Its grandeur is all in the structure, and no building displays this more piercingly than the 14th century church of Santa Maria del Mar, the "workers' church" of Barcelona, with its sublimely plain interior, a solemn Sequoia grove of stone hewed from the quarries of Montjuic, the mountain that guards the port...
...Best Intentions -- written by Bergman but directed by Bille August, the Dane who made Pelle the Conqueror -- proves you can't keep a solemn Swede down. It recounts the first married years of Bergman's parents, whose later lives he dramatized in his family-album movie, Fanny and Alexander. In retrospect we can see that Bergman was unlikely to retire to some Fort Lauderdale of the soul; familiar demons would fill his afternoon naps with nightmares. And with the unfinished business of putting his parents on paper. Somebody else would put them on film...