Word: nonlinear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Clark called Leonardo "the great Sphinx of art history," but he was also its great Rorschach blot. The past century has seen almost as many Leonardos as there have been léonardistes. Magus, "Renaissance man," supergay, world's first nonlinear thinker -the parade of stereotypes marches on. At one moment he struck the Victorians as a prototype of the engineer-hero, a 15th century Brunel or Edison who lacked only the omnipotent semen of capital to make his projects real. At the next, the English 19th century aesthete Walter Pater wrote of his mechanical inventions as mere...
...times, his tone becomes overly solicitous--like a travel agent describing the most suitable road to heaven--but mostly he's the kind of good time Charley you'd be happy to include in any rag-tag gang. As Judas, Lloyd Bremseth has less to do; Godspell being as nonlinear as it is, he is more Christ's alter-ego than he is Christ's adversary...
...this vacuum of affections, the film is played out in what amounts to musical form. Other directors may prate of their McLuhanesque approaches to movies. Bergman has quietly composed nonlinear work for more than two decades. The Passion is like a string quartet in which four master players reciprocally sound enigmatic variations on a theme. Nature evaporates into images and dreams; the irrational becomes the true ruler of the universe; in graphic scenes, eros and death are exposed like lovers caught in flagrante...