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Friday, November 10, 2023

“By these festival rites, from the age that is past…”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:53 pm

Among the prominent films she produced
or distributed …  “Teorema” (1968) … .

Above — The New York Times  reports a November 4th death.

Below — This  journal on that date . . .

From a New York Times  review of  "Teorema" —

 " 'Teorema' (theorem) is a parable, a movie of realistic images
photographed and arranged with a mathematical precision
that drains them of comforting emotional meaning."

" 'Teorema' is a religious film, but I think it would take
a very hip Jesuit to convert it into a testament to
contemporary Roman Catholic dogma."

— Vincent Canby, April 22, 1969

See as well "The Thing and I."
 

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