Example sentences for: schnitzler

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  • "Building pellets or manure," muses a philosophical Karl Schnitzler of the Bavarian State Central Bank, "the question is secondary.

  • Most reviewers pillory the film's highly publicized group-sex scene, in which human figures were digitally inserted to avoid an NC-17 rating: "the most pompous orgy in the history of the movies" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), and "one of the least erotic orgies ever filmed" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click for Slate critic David Edelstein's review and for an "Explainer" on Arthur Schnitzler, who wrote the novella that Eyes Wide Shut is based on.

  • Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.

  • It's easy to see what drew the director to Schnitzler's narrative.

  • The director reportedly discovered Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Traumnovelle ( Dream Novella , although it has been translated as other things) in the late '60s, spent several years on the updated and Americanized but otherwise faithful script (he shares the credit with Frederic Raphael), and shot and reshot it for an eyes-wide-opening period of a year and a half.


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