Word: surrealisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It didn’t have to be that way. At a few points, Wright reveals sharp humor and a delightful weirdness. The conclusion of “Od Hearing,” in which the narrator senses his estrangement from the people around him, is a striking blend of...
3 Leolo Little boy lost: French-Canadian writer-director Jean-Claude Lauzon takes this familiar theme and replaces its sentimentality with luscious surrealism. No family could be more horrifying than little Leo's, no boy more frantic to find refuge in fantasy, no movie bolder in fashioning domestic tragedy into...
It was April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who'd found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for themselves and their work. They settled this dispute, according to art lore, by thrusting...
Born in Minneapolis and raised in Los Angeles, he lapped up the best of midcentury America's comic culture: the visual surrealism of Ernie Kovacs' TV shows, the lunatic satire of Harvey Kurtzman's Mad and Humbug comic books. Yet even then there was a zealot budding in him. He...
In the beginning was not the word but the ritual. Or so some of the most influential theorists of 20th century theater contend. Thus the avant-garde has sought to reinvigorate drama by going backward, to incantatory sound and allusive visual imagery. In the 1960s and 1970s, such experiments often...