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Indeed, it sometimes seems that there is not a bold or original movie that comes out today that deals with a theme Kubrick didn't touch first--and with far greater skill...
...biting satire and political commentary of Wag The Dog seems tame next to Kubricks apocalyptic fairy tale, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Even the most sexually-driven movies today, from Basic Instinct to Dangerous Creatures, look childish next to the sophisticated eroticism of Kubrick's Lolita--an eroticism created through words and glances and not a single scene of naked flesh. As for violence, a director like Quentin Tarantino is put to shame when one looks at the cold but gleeful presentation of crime and pain in A Clockwork Orange, which...
This weekend the aforementioned "Saving Private Ryan" will likely win the Oscar for Best Picture. But if its director had grown up in today's world, I have to wonder if the film would ever have been made. Growing up outside of Phoenix, Ariz., Steven Spielberg didn't have many friends and was often picked on by his peers. He does not look back fondly on his days in the schoolyard, and it is unfortunate that, as a boy, he had such a difficult time. But if he had been dragged into a therapy group and taught to be more...
Taylor spoke on James's work The varieties of Religious Experience, focusing on how it has anticipated many of the religious trends in America today, but has neglected the importance of organized religion...
...found in aremark made by one of Yale's and America's firstmen: 'Few will give but Bones men, and they carefar more for their society than they do for thecollege...' "Year by year the deadly evil isgrowing. The society was never as obnoxious to thecollege as it is today, and it is just thisill-feeling that shuts the pockets of non-members.Never before has it shown such arrogance andself-fancied superiority. It grasps the collegepress and endeavors to rule it all. It does notdeign to show its credentials, but clutches atpower with the silence of conscious guilt...