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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reading the VAM article printed in last Saturday's CRIMSON, I can not help but make a few comments on the subject...
Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
...week starting Friday, March 12. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
Farrebique (Siritzky-International) is the record of one year on a French farm of that name. A great subject and a great creative medium, peculiarly well suited to each other, meet and are combined in this film into one of the better events in the history of pure cinema...
Georges Rouquier, who "conceived and produced" this film, clearly has this understanding of his medium, combined with creative inspiration and boldness. The subject-the daily and lifelong effort of rural man as a part of nature and as a portion of eternity-is one of the grandest there is, and has inspired a long creative tradition. In that great line, Farrebique deals with its theme in terms which the theme cries out for-absolute realism...