Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic (if unsurprising) that Ingmar Bergman, amidst his low-key lighting and contrasty soundtracks, huge closeups and merciless symbolism, should fall prey to his own musing. Bergman's intellect and intuition never quite fuse: they live separately in Bergman the scriptwriter and Bergman the film director. Film is the most direct medium, but Bergman sees his ideas as literary...
Presumably we'll begin to feel a few rows closer to Bergman with each film from now on. He's now appealing less to our intellect, more to our emotion. If this is true, it's especially worth going to the Charles and seeing The Dove. (Negatives, the feature with it, you can forget about--though then the short will be costing you about a dime a minute). The Dove is funny and pretentious. It will show you what's to be seen on the surface of "classic" Bergman: what probably won't be seen there much longer...
...Manhattan last week to receive the National Institute of Social Sciences medal for "distinguished services to humanity," Charles Lindbergh spoke with concern about man's relation to his environment. "In the short period of time after intellect gained domination over instinct," said Lindy, "it has made man the most destructive creature upon earth." Man, Lindbergh complained, now suffers from an "inability to choose the better from the worse in fundamental values." Let us, he pleaded, "agree to preserve some of the natural environment that formed us. It holds the wisdom to which our tyranny of intellect must turn...
EDGAR ULMER'S films constitute a relatively unknown group of excellent low-budget pictures made during a period of more than 30 years. His art is in many respects highly pictorial, yet in the most developed films his complicated intellect adds dimension to the straightforward impact of the images. In The Black Cat and The Naked Dawn, initially simple confrontations are made ambiguous by Ulmer's elusive concept of morality. The camera often works against the script in directing audience sympathies, and should we feel secure in our assessment of character relationships, Ulmer will invariably undermine the status...
...intellectual and ethnic types is a model (if not a parody) of what is often described as New Yorker fiction: the nostalgic revelation of an overrefined sensibility that emerges preferably in an unusual setting. More important, Mosby is a cameo that illustrates the dangers of the reductive, aggressively critical intellect...