Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casanova is a fantastic puppet-show. Loosely structured on Casanova's autobiography, the film relates his amorous adventures in an anecdotal style similar to that of Fellini's earlier film, Roma. Episodes succeed each other in a vaguely chronological order, but there is no plot, no continuum of theme, no development of character or emotions. One woman is followed by another woman, and another woman, one court, another court, one spectacle, another spectacle, another spectacle. One fuck, another fuck, another fuck...
Fellini unifies these disjointed variations on a chamber music theme with pure showmanship, with extravagant, baroque, visually stupendous theatrics. The curtain rises, as it were, on a magnificent Venetian mosque on the Grand Canal. As fireworks explode above the Rialto and gondolas pass below, the huge head of a woman is hoisted out of the canal. Suddenly--a rope breaks, poles fall, masquers scream and the vast shape sinks back under the dark green water. The camera focuses in on one costumed mannequin, dressed in white, with his hair pulled back off an amazingly high forehead. The stage...
...other, between Rita Hayworth, the Tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. Gilda is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite of mine, Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai...
...masterpiece of 1916, The Flamenco Singer. Moreover, if the exhibition does seem to end on a dying fall, it hardly matters. What counts is that an area of great consequence for art history has now been opened up. "Women Artists: 1550-1950" is one of the most significant theme shows to come along in years. Robert Hughes
...interested in an apparent contradiction in the report of the Task Force on College Life, which you summarized (1/4/77). This group supposedly favors diversity; at least, it supports investigation of "'theme' Houses, focusing on language, art, or a special area of concentration," providing "an alternative living arrangement for those who might prefer it" (1.4-7). On the other hand, it suggests "no-choice pre-freshman assignment to the Houses" (1.4-9), which, barring tremendous numbers of inter-House transfers, would seem to necessitate "the creation of more uniformity within the Housing system," which the task force also recommends...