Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smug psychiatrist proposes to jar the supposed madman back to sanity by the ploy of having the portrait of his young love come to life in the person of her daughter. Seeing the elder and the younger woman side by side does indeed shock the pseudo Henry-to the point of stabbing his old love rival to death. By this sudden act of murder, the Emperor loses his freedom and is imprisoned in the illusions and fantasies of which he was previously the master...
Hisses & Asides. That has been true since the beginning of his film career. It was unheard of, for instance, to cut from the back of an actress' head to the back of the same head. Godard did it 18 times in Breathless. While making A Woman Is a Woman, he recalled a Chaplin dictum that comedy is life in long shot and tragedy life in closeup. So A Woman became a comedy in closeup. Cameras are supposed to record, not call attention to themselves. In My Life to Live, he had his camera swinging back and forth like...
...There are sequences in his films that no other director would have dared to try, or could have brought off half so well: Alphaville's portrayal of the future as nightmare, achieved through location-shooting in present-day Paris; the bittersweet evocations of prewar Hollywood musicals in A Woman Is a Woman; the female mood of sensual boredom in The Married Woman...
...often the case in tragedy, the most affecting lines come from less tutored lips. A hospital worker, hideously disfigured at the age of 13, told Lifton: "I could not help believing that for a woman to lose her beauty is equivalent to death. All I could do was live in a corner of my house...
Because of the large number of paintings in the exhibition, some limitation of focus is helpful in their evaluation. One approach is to concentrate on the Blocks' very rich collection of portraits, including Degas' distant "Young Man with a Hat," Seurat's study for a "Woman Powdering Herself," the famous Matisse "The Young Sailor" (version two) and the even better-known van Gogh "Self-Portrait," showing his bandaged ear. In addition, there are three sensitive Vuillards, one a "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" in a style set between the thick modelling of Manet and the pointillist inheritance of Impressionism...