Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ensor is, of course, better known for his paintings. His great oil, The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, painted in 1888, measured 8½ ft. by 14 ft., but he explored the same theme in etchings the size of a shirt cardboard. During his life, Ensor scratched out 133 etchings and drypoints whose quality and diversity rate the Flemish homebody an inglenook in the hall of fame of his great predecessors, Diirer, Rembrandt...
...doubt the paradox is pressed too far. Godard does not seriously mean to say that every little phryne is a saint with eyeshadow. He simply means to say, and he says it eloquently, that the pursuit of pleasure may also be a search for the self. The theme is illustrated with utmost art in the portrait of the heroine. Not since Stiller's camera turned to stare at Garbo has a man made such searing love with a lens. Godard's camera never lets the girl out of its sight. It circles her endlessly, kisses her hands, caresses...
...interesting to observe that, in the five years since Snow gave the Rede Lecture, no one has produced a prolonged discussion on the same theme. Probably this failure reflects both the essential vagueness of the problem, and the immense difficulties involved in any attempted solution. For what Snow is getting at, the breakdown of communication among specialists, is a situation which exists in every aspect of academic life, and forms a major problem of universities today. It certainly extends beyond the simple scientist-humanist dichotomy...
Frank Machin, protagonist of "This Sporting Life," approaches life as he approaches his rugby matches--brutally and without understanding. While exploring this not-too-subtle theme, the film presents several subtle and dramatic characters...
...holy power hidden in this fleshly armature." Ruby Drew's story is of her efforts to bring her pale damned sister Savata to the grace of Prince o' Light rather than go on covered in feathers and fleshly glory at a nightclub in St. Louis singing her theme song: If You Like It Thataway, You Can Have It Thataway...