Word: boredome
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Kwaidan. Beauty and boredom are richly intermixed in this trio of Japanese ghost stories by Director Masaki Kobayashi, whose last exercise in horror was the classic Harakiri. The boredom stems from three supernatural tales by Lafcadio Hearn, each unfolding with the grace of a water lily and at approximately the same pace. The beauty lies in the film's imagery, the delicate, dreamlike balance of sound and light and color in every frame...
...bound up with the far more photogenic career of her husband. Producer Sidney Glazier has cleared both obstacles so cleanly that the viewer is hardly aware they exist. Sifting through more than 3000 stills, he has found a handful of early shots that reveal all the sadness, isolation, and boredom of Eleanor's childhood in Mrs. Astor's New York. The film clips of the later years are edited with such spirit and precision that the viewer rarely wonders how FDR and the War are doing: the energetic First Lady more than fills the time and screen...
...Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there is no lure in any imaginable sort of "eternal life." The greatest happiness I have ever enjoyed would pall into unspeakable boredom in vastly less than fourscore years, let alone "eternity...
...opera Miss Julie [Nov. 12]. Because I do not want to bite the hand that feeds me, I'd like to amend (or at least amplify) the phrase that "Utah is a boring state." No state, by definition, is in itself boring. As for The State of Boredom, to me it is synonymous with tranquillity (i.e., lack of distraction), which most artists will concur is the first requisite for getting anything done...
...gentle lyricism pervades the film in place of the imagination which dominates Fellini's later works. The director, always autobiographical, tries to place you inside the life he has been leading by showing the tense moments backstage in provincial theatres, or the long periods of boredom on trains and country roads. Very simple details carry the message, such as the contrast between the unorthodox drummer in the vaudeville company and the super-smoothy in a Rome nightclub...