Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The headline announcing Walker's death was the first most of these people had heard of Walker since the fall of 1970, his senior year. Then he had been in the newspapers weekly as Captain and Most Valuable Player of what was called by many "The Best Damn Football Team...
This nearly overwhelming film is part epic allegory, part lighthearted Brechtian morality play and part three-ring circus. It is the saga of a young English coffee salesman (Malcolm McDowell), a description as precise and inadequate as saying that Gulliver's Travels concerns the misadventures of a ship'...
As he worked on his 53rd and last film in 1963, Yasujiro Ozu may or may not have known that he was near death from cancer. But An Autumn Afternoon has a feeling of firm, final wisdom and of almost transcendent serenity. It is a quiet film, but not a...
Despite such criticisms, the differences between Eastern and Western spirituality may sometimes be more apparent than real, the assumed opposition more a matter of semantics than truth. At the root of both is man's continuing quest for the experience of the transcendent, which must work itself out among...
As for that condensed book, whether it is a designer's prank or decorator's slip, it neatly symbolizes the transcendent banality that is shot through the movie like a dose of glucose. Kahlil Gibran would sound like Wittgenstein next to the woozy wisdom dispensed here: "You'...