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Sanctuary (20th Century-Fox) is Hollywood's second attempt to make a movie of Author William Faulkner's woolhat horror story of murder, impotence and rape in Mississippi. As in The Story of Temple Drake (1933), most of the hairier moments of the original novel (which Faulkner frankly wrote "to make money") have been clipped, and the film dissolves into just another jugful of Hollywood's standard Southern Discomfort...
...first Lord High Executioner who commanded the guns in 200 executions, more often than not personally delivering the pistol coup de grâce to each victim. Born in Milwaukee, Marks was arrested 32 times in the U.S., jailed in Wisconsin, Ohio and California (vagrancy, assault, draft dodging, theft, rape), joined Castro's forces in December 1957 and was made a captain. The U.S. canceled his citizenship with alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach the man they called "the butcher." Last May, Marks fled Cuba in a boat, made it to Florida and disappeared into Mexico...
...most important influence was Germany itself. Grosz saw it as a kind of hell. His Berlin streets were clogged with human monsters-fat, seminaked whores, bulbous businessmen, thin-lipped officers with monocles and Iron Crosses. Rape and murder fascinated him, and the death that hovers over sickbeds and alongside dozing old beggars. Though Grosz was an impeccable draftsman, he used fierce, childlike lines to transform the world into a nightmare of distortion. "I always like to be a little tortured," he said. "You like to laugh, but you also like to be hit. It's the schizophrenia...
...Ingmar Bergman's battle reports on the war between the sexes. DREAMS. A second Bergman skirmish, almost as uproarious and rather more deeply ironic, in the same campaign. THE VIRGIN SPRING.Bergman's latest picture-a dark and moving miracle play that comes to a climax in a rape that is also an annunciation...
...Virgin Spring (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's mythical and violently beautiful miracle play, derived from a medieval ballad about a farm girl's rape-murder and her father's vengeance, is as clear and grave as a Mass...