Word: dostoevsky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Bresson. "There is a huge barrier between his greatness, his silence, his commitment and his dreams, and the world in which they are mistaken for stumbling and obsession." Une Femme Douce, Bresson's newest film, may go some small way toward razing the barrier. Adapted from a Dostoevski novella about the suicide of a young bride, Une Femme Douce finds Bresson dealing once again with the corruption of innocence, a theme that has dominated his work from Diary of a Country Priest to last year's Mouchette. For the first time, however, his central character is something...
...dust and tobacco. There is hardly any view through their windows, they are fogged and dirty. All you can see are the fences and backyards of the slums of Providence and New Haven and Bridgeport through which the trains sneak slow and silent, like a scabby do in a Dostoevski story. And, in the aisle, an old man hawks the sandwiches and beverages. The sandwiches are larger than the toast bits served on planes, but they are also seventy-five cents and aged in Saran Wrap...
...sounded a bit like the nightmare of a student who had read too much Dostoevski or Koestler, but it actually happened last week at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. The confrontation was the twice-a-year "don rag," which is the closest St. John's comes to a report card. It is also the logical extension of the school's Socratic teaching method, which stresses 100 "great books" and depends almost exclusively on small tutorial discussion groups and oral exams...
...having read The Idiot, I cannot pass judgment on the fidelity of this 1951 film version by Akira Kurosawa, but even if I someday find that he and his co-writer took no liberties with Dostoevski's plot beyond setting it in twentieth-century Japan I doubt that I shall have to revise my opinion of the film. An artist's failures, of course, should be examined for the light they throw on his successes; but so crude is the directorial technique in The Idiot, so flagrant is the absence of any sort of suspense, that there...
Hats off, gentlemen, to Lucien Price's admirable suggestion that Goethe's Faust be performed annually in the Loeb Drama Center. This epic pageant wrestles with what are possibly the most significant themes in civilized thought, and it is arguably the greatest literary achievement between Shakespeare and Dostoevski...