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The back-story behind Warner Bros.' JEZEBEL -- itself widely regarded among critics and connoisseurs of the films of Bette Davis (and the late Thirties in general) as that of a consolation film given to Davis when the "hunt" for Scarlett O'Hara was in full swing -- is as long and convoluted as the tangled passions within the story shown on screen.
An interesting saga of trials and tribulations, passions and ambitions set in Hawaii around the time of the infamous attack on Pear Harbor on Dec 7, 1941.
I think this is one of those "key" films for a director, that may not necessarily be his best, but is filled to the brim with his passions and obsessions -- or, the passions and obsessions he doesn't bring up in his other films.
Instead we have a film about being true to yourself and learning to follow your passions for whatever - cooking, dance, love.
I wait for the day that Black filmmakers can make work without having to conform to the prescribed script written for them to fulfil and they can just follow their passions.
What we are forced to participate in here, however, is the very ebb and flow of love and lust between two people not afraid to let their passions take them to the edge and even over.
I saw this movie at The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, though this funny, witty and entertaining movie about love and passions set against a cross-cultural, Glaswegian background could be featured at any film festival.
A refreshing look at the passions that move the human heart, with a few interesting, if somewhat predictable, plot twists and a surprising ending.
We can un-bury it, and then bury it again, and eventually un-bury it a second time, but why not re-bury that poor past in order to finally get it out once more and discover it was not so bad and it was nothing but some kind of sad heart disease, a disease of the heart, a weak heart crushed by passions, love passion, dreams that me made into nightmares, and maybe some anger.
She doesn't become "a woman" by film's end, as she declares, but a soulless sex machine who engages in sex purely to satisfy animalistic passions.
If you wanted to know about Lenny Bruce, his thoughts, his loves, his fears and passions, Dustin delivers for you.
Paul, whose father seemed to brutally punish him for his son's aggressiveness (and unconsciously for the boy's possessiveness of his mother), has adjusted to reality by living within the confines of a control in his life that prevents accidents or passions from taking place.
The political passions aroused by the clashes of interpretation often make the crisis seemingly insoluble.
The United States, Israel, and Britain have also expressed willingness to provide Nigeria with counter-terrorism support, but this “help,” if accepted, would only inflame passions in the country’s Islamic belt.
How voters decide will be an important test of whether democratic choices in advanced countries are governed by economic rationality or popular passions.
Indeed, most emerging-market workers turn to the gig economy not out of a desire for flexibility or to follow their passions, but simply to make ends meet.
It is difficult today to know how much support in Europe – with its schisms, suspicions, and passions – could be mustered for a document starting with the words, “We the People of Europe.”
The religious and ethnic passions of the Sinhalese were encouraged during the final, bloody push that ended Sri Lanka’s quarter-century of civil war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
Appealing to the public’s fears and nativist passions, he declares the culture of the immigrants antithetical to Dutch values and denounces their religion, which “scandalizes Christians,” as a kind of infectious disease.
What most concerned Spinoza was the way unscrupulous leaders could stir up religious passions and manipulate citizens’ fears.
Citizens who are led by fear are “slaves,” in bondage to irrational passions, and thus willing to give themselves over to those who claim to know best how to achieve personal (and national!)
Given the unsociable sociability of human beings, driven by their appetites and passions, the process by which it is fashioned is both brazen and fragile.
This reversal is consistent with the pattern established elsewhere, including on the Yangtze: China temporarily suspends a controversial plan after major protests in order to buy time while public passions cool, before resurrecting the same plan.
Humans, according to Pinker, have both good and bad angels (or passions), and the good ones have become more dominant.
Rather than escalate the conflict over the Dalai Lama’s visit further, China’s leaders should allow passions to subside and relegate the episode to yesterday’s news.
From Egypt to Lebanon to Iran, political passions are mounting, along with a renewed optimism.
If liberalism is to survive as a guiding framework for international relations, its proponents must tap into passions of their own.
For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.
However, Turks are all too aware of the passions that their country’s EU candidacy stokes in Europe.
His mandate is much more demanding: he must reconcile France’s public interests with its private passions.
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