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...structure of the film is stark but never static; Kurosawa impels his drama with demonic drive. From its first frenzied episode of plunging stallions and roaring knights, the film hurtles doomward like a great black boulder flung from a catapult. The spectator scarcely has time to realize, as the images deafen and the noises decorate his imagination, that he is experiencing effects of cinema seldom matched in their headlong masculine power of imagination. Among them...
...remarkable skill as a novelist with carelessness and cynicism. His best-known book, All the King's Men, is a good novel with great flaws. Its strengths are in mood, speech and flow of action; its weaknesses are Warren's failure to see the viciousness in Willie Stark, his idealized Huey Long character, and his distrust of his own ability to get through the book without melodrama. The novel's too-obtrusive narrator becomes aware of the unfathomable intertwinings of guilt, for instance, only when he learns that the man he has destroyed at Willie...
KENMORE: Two Women stars Sophia Loren in the best and only acting performance of her career--portraying a mother who flees with her daughter to the mountains during the Italian Campaign of World War II, and returns too soon. Its rape scene outdoes Bergman, and is perhaps as stark as anything filmed...
...addition to constant car research, von Bekesy is an avid antique collector, and is a familiar prowling figure in Cambridge and New England antique shops. He exhibits pieces of early art in his laboratory "to relieve the stark gleam of instruments that bristle with knobs and dials," according to Stevens...
KENMORE: A film version of Alberto Moravia's TWO WOMEN, which goes by the same name. A portrayal of the almost incredibly stark life of the Italian peasantry during the Second World War's Italian campaign. Sophia Loren and her film-land daughter (anonymous) leave bomb-strafed Roma only to find privation, and the sex-starved troops of three nations. Climax of the film comes in a deserted hillside church were a platoon of North African irregulars make off with daughter's virtue and mother's dignity. If "The Virgin Spring" dismayed you, stay away from this. Evenings...