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Visual as La Captive is in its rigorously formal compositions, the filmmaker is straightforwardly concerned with language.
Chantal Akerman 2008
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Afterward she called the Captive and bade him conduct the youth by the secret way he had come, underneath the chambers of the fortress.
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Afterward she called the Captive and bade him conduct the youth by the secret way he had come, underneath the chambers of the fortress.
Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Chantal Akerman’s La Captive is another sort of psycho-epistemological inquiry that asks: How can we know another?
Chantal Akerman 2008
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Knox also has an essay about St. Philip Neri in Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes.
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"La Belle Captive is a brilliantly constructed mystery," writes Mike at Esotika Erotica Psychotica, "meticulously elliptical, repeatedly coming back to the same semi-ending ...
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I would call The Captive a symphony, and print the C-minor themes in it, only it would seem fanciful.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923
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The Captive is a promising some-time venue for the indie-rock set.
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I can't decide if The Power or The Captive is my favorite in the series.
unknown title 2008
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a tragedy in blank verse, called The Captive; that drama forms the chief theme of this journal.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923
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