Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more profound theme is at work here, signaled by still other literary antecedents. Emulating Henry James' Lambert Strether in The Ambassadors, whose admonition is "Live all you can," Amy vows to escape the suffocating restrictions of the bloodless upper class: "Amy was alive; Amy throbbed. For what was life but wanting to live?" Auchincloss's penchant for the portentous flourish has never been more in evidence; in the spirit of a self-help manual rather than a heroine, Amy proclaims to Fidler's wife: "I exist. I feel. You're the one who's concerned...
...forcefully than Franks', the message in the retrospective and in his book American Photographs is clear. As Trachtenberg concludes, "Each picture completes itself only in the complete work, which in turn reflects not only upon 'America' in a state of upheaval, but upon the art of representation itself...the theme is survival, and constructive seeing the means...
Francesco Rosi's brilliant political thriller Illustrious Corpses, deals quite well with this rather complicated subject of Italian political turmoil. The film's theme of political assassination and a growing police state conjures up frightening Orwellian visions of Big Brother-type repression. It is even more eerily prophetic as it was made in 1975, before the Moro killing and more compelling than The Parallax View (an American film with the same theme of assassination) as it probably reflects a greater measure of reality...
ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES is in many ways typical of contemporary Italian cinema. Rosi uses the documentary style, which places an exaggerated emphasis on certain events in the plot to create a more realistic impression, and uses the common theme of the overgrown police state seen in many recent films. He also contrasts the grandeur of the great halls and monuments of Romano-Italian civilization with the decadence of the morally weak leaders for ironic effect...
...Game. Facing death with a certain caustic equanimity has become a popular stage theme in the past couple of seasons. In this play, a cantankerous old man and an assertive old lady play bracing games of gin rummy even though the cards of life are stacked against them...