The Human Condition (人間の條件) 1959-1961 by Masaki Kobayashi

by CarolGluck This famous Japanese film re-creates the brutal end of World War II in Manchuria. Powerful in image and message, the movie is also long. Its three parts, lasting more than nine hours, present an often riveting, nearly unrelenting depiction of the inhumanity of war.Americans and Japanese have long tended to think of the Second World War in Asia in terms of the Pacific War—from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the atomic...

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Goethe in Hollywood and L.A. as Hell: Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

The Farewell of the Sonata Form by Professor Kretschmar - Theodor Wissengrund Adorno -  Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111What did he talk about? Well, the man was capable of spending a whole hour on the question: Why did Beethoven not write a third movement to the Piano Sonata Opus 111? It is without doubt a matter worth discussing. But think of it in the light of the posters outside the hall of Activities for the Common Weal,...

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