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Image by image, in short, Castellani's Romeo and Juliet is a fine film poem. Unfortunately, it is not Shakespeare's poem. In his obsession with the beautiful single frame, Castellani has ignored not only the rhythm of Shakespeare's scenes but has even failed to set...
Almost from the beginning, critics have talked about Hemingway's obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems...
Also detracting from what seems the main theme of the film--the growth and disintegration of a beautiful young girl--is the obsession the motion picture industry has for itself. The Bad and the Beautiful said quite a bit about professional back-stabbing and the ruthless, compulsive people who produce...
His research into Faulkner's family rest, and occasionally jotting down history and especially into the life of great-grandfather William Cuthbert Faulkner provides a good deal of insight into the sources of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County characters and their stories. The great-grandfather was the living model for Colonel...
For Staffordshire-born Recordmaker Lieberson, The Confederacy represents a new-found obsession with the Civil War ("It's a disease"). It is also the latest experiment "creative" in his approach to the continuing search recording for business. Over the last 15 years, Lieberson has won a reputation for adventurous...