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...limits of impartiality. His mise en scene is open and anti-compositional. Improvisational. Accidental. Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as events of everyday life. He is the antithesis of baroque, while the famous royal style of Louis XIV is baroque itself. Baroque elevated to the level of classicism. Dramaturgy, glorifying in each new detail it brings under its sway...
...incompatible-in the abstract. The abstract being that two-dimensional landscape of rhetoric and copulative verbs that permits such phantasmagoria as the preceding paragraph. Bitter tears, dear reader, on my copy of What Is Cinema? Open City, Voyage to Italy, General Della Rovere, and now The Rise of Louis XIV: there is something in the anonymity of Rossellim's aesthetic, beyond abstraction or mere being, which resists the a priori...
France's 175-year-old Académic des Beaux-Arts has coldly considered recent proposals to recognize upstart arts like the cinema. Now, however, the forty-member academy's new president observes: "There were no moviemakers around at the time of Louis XIV, so I sincerely believe we would in no way offend the founders by recognizing this new art form." The president is Sculptor Paul Belmondo, 72, father of Actor Jean-Paul...
...doubt misreading of what they construe as the class basis of our protest movement but partly also in their residual admiration for part of America. This is an admiration, first of all, for that part of America which through President Wilson called for the acceptance of the XIV Points after World War I, especially with respect to national self-determination, which Ho Chi Minh hoped could be implemented for Indochina through him when as a young French socialist he sought admission at Versailles. It is a fleeting admiration, also, for that part of America in the midst of World...
...worship in the tiny national museum on Paris' Ile de la Cité. The celebrants wore vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time of Louis XIV. It was celebrated in relative comfort. Leaving no detail to chance, Shriver had ordered the usually damp and chilly 13th century chapel to be heated two days in advance...