INTO ETERNITY Opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
That is the warning issued by "Into Eternity," a documentary playing at Film Forum.
He is the author of "Chekhov's Plays: An Opening Into Eternity" (Yale University Press, 1996).
In "Chekhov's Plays: An Opening Into Eternity," Richard Gilman talks about how Chekhov anticipates Beckett.
This almost unimaginable perspective is demanded by the subject of "Into Eternity," a Finnish nuclear waste storage site called Onkalo.
But Into Eternity is different: there are no villains exposed, no polemic; in fact no sides are taken at all.
Named Onkalo, whose literal translation is "cavity", it was the subject of a documentary last year, Into Eternity.
The place is called Onkalo (Finnish for "hidden") and it is the subject of "Into Eternity," a new documentary by Mr. Madsen.
Thousands of tons of radioactive waste are produced in the generation of nuclear power, and "Into Eternity" takes a somewhat guilty view of this activity.
As one expert says in Into Eternity, the message is simple: "This is not an important place; it is a place of danger.
In his book "Into Eternity" (Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1985), a biography of James Jones, Frank MacShane quotes the writer as having said: "I'm working in the dark all the time.
