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"Faithless" runs two and a half brooding hours; it is vintage Bergman in its preoccupation with the interior life of its characters and the harrowing consequences of their often inscrutable actions.

But while Shinn's play has a passionate sincerity and demolishes the myth that we live in a cosy new world of sexual tolerance, it can't help feeling a bit cloistered in its preoccupation with the politics of persecution.

The record is most old-fashioned in its preoccupation with respect.

After the favela the debate seemed fantastic to the writer in its preoccupation with tax cuts and prosperity.

The reason for the failure to explain profit lies in the essentially static character of the neoclassical theory and in its preoccupation with perfect competition.

In its obsession with the "clear" and "firm outlines" of landscape forms, A Land reads like Roger Fry on rocks, and in its preoccupation with synchronicities like Gurdjieff on geology.

In its preoccupations it might be described as "Son of 'American Beauty.' " If that first movie was a glum but polished man of the world, its offspring is a colicky baby who does a lot of screaming and yelling and banging of fists.

I don't think Australian cinema or the Australian psyche is uniquely dark in its preoccupations or it's collective guilt.

In its preoccupations with diversity and injustice it "minimized the importance of the Western Enlightenment and replaced political knowledge about human nature with cultural mystiques about races and racial heritages".

It has, of course, a history behind it: The Habit of Art takes off from Bennett's earlier work both in its preoccupations and in its casting (Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour).

In its preoccupations, this crude but scathing portrait of suburban life might be described as "Son of 'American Beauty.' " (Holden) 'TYLER PERRY'S THE FAMILY THAT PREYS' (PG-13, 1:51) The suds that cascade through Tyler Perry melodrama more than equal the cubic footage from nighttime soaps like "Dallas," "Dynasty" and their offspring.