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Rome's Fiumicino airport was jammed with pilgrims last week. Some were Roman Catholics arriving to observe the Holy Year paschal ceremonies in the Eternal City. More secular-minded visitors included Communist delegations from 70 countries, who flew in for the 14th National Congress of the Italian Communist Party...
Stavisky remains a relatively opaque character. His facade is everything. He was born a Russian Jew; his family fled from the pogroms, and his respectable father, a dentist, committed suicide when he learned of Stavisky's first arrest some years before the action of the film takes place. Despite his...
Resnais's Stavisky is a cold film--a bored film, I think--without the cerebral pleasures of Resnais's earlier experiments in film technique, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, although traces of the narrative trademarks worked out in those films persist into this one. House of All...
But these pictures also have an eternal quality that belies their seeming randomness Rosenblum has found a sort of sculptural elegance in his subjects that seems to hold the pictures to the gallery wall and prevent any quick dismissal of them. It is as if that "transparent" peephole is also...
This "we versus they" syndrome is Tom Wicker's theory of violence in America. Puritan theology may be dead, he says, but Puritanism is eternal in its tendency to divide everyone into two opposed camps, the saved and the damned, the forces of light and the forces of dark, we...