Word: epics
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...only effective shots were the fearful pictures of the captured Italian underground leader about to die from German torture, and if the man's screams were the only stunning use of sound in the movie, "Open City" would burrow deep into the memory. If its epic simplicity were its only virtue, it would nonetheless rank as a fine motion picture...
...come through. Nor is it Ford's either, for the most part. It is primarily the Hollywood tradition of giving the customer the largest amount of fireworks in the longest possible picture (two hours and fifteen minutes, to be exact) that has conspired to ruin an otherwise excellent war epic...
...Violence. A year after Warsaw's liberation, in the thick of an epic and revolutionary reconstruction, Poland still struggled to define her freedom. Theoretically, the definition would be given in national elections. Theoretically, as the Big Three had pledged at Yalta, the vote would be "free and unfettered." But, as Stenia's Tommy gun witnessed, theory for Poland was much simpler than fact...
Languishing behind barbed wire in Germany and Japan, many a Canadian had dreamed of an epic postwar party, and wondered if it would ever come true. Last week...
...This Silence? Mann admits a lifelong debt to four great writers: Goethe, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky. Of Goethe ("the molder of a majestic personal culture") and of Tolstoy ("the primitive epic force"), Mann has often written with "enthusiastic eloquence." But he could never bring himself to write a line about Nietzsche (who suffered from creeping paralysis) or Dostoevsky (an epileptic). "Why," asks Mann, "this evasion . . . this silence...