Word: transcendency
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That task is the most radical aspect of the new, post-Marxian history, and it has two major consequences. It displaces the idea of the present subject who can transcend the limitations of time by organizing and "understanding" history, and thus recover the past intact. It also breaks down the notion of continuous history based on the flow of cause and effect, on social or cultural analogy, or, ultimately, on the necessary unfolding of an ideal pattern...
...attended the first screening of Boorman's previous film open to anyone outside of MGM brass. Boorman was there. A young, very intelligent and open man, he confessed what he felt were his own limits, saying that he'd blown apart some of his films in desperate attempts transcend story, his hope was to find a situation which could be developed in cinematic terms as cleanly as possible, with little expository verbiage and much complexity of image. At least in technique. Deliverance is the film he's been working towards. You can take any one of his frames alone...
Rarely, except in Robert Flaherty's documentaries, has nature been so truly or so tangibly rendered on the screen. Deliverance is splendidly photographed (by Vilmos Zsigmond) and edited (by Tom Priestley). Images sweep by the eye in great, violent cascades that transcend Dickey's prose renderings of the same terrain...
...most striking change was that shown by South Korea, long among the most ardent of cold warriors. President Chung Hee Park declared that members should transcend differences in ideology "in order to spread the sunshine of peace throughout the region." Whether all the flowery rhetoric will be enough to give ASPAC a viable future, however, remains to be seen...
...that Resnais submits to circumstances does not deny him creativity. The ultimate task of bringing verbal and visual--script and camera--together into the final experience of film, is still the director's. With the force of an individual sensibility, Resnais can transcend circumstances and synthesize influences. He makes films which are uniquely his, while preserving the individuality of each script...