Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little Caesar. 1930. An early tragic epic of the gangster world with Edward G. Robinson magnificent as star-crossed hood Rico Bandello...
...passed from age to youth, but in the 1970s the torch is being handed back again. Youth -the obsession of a few years ago, the hope of some, the fear of others -no longer makes great waves. While the 1969 rock festival at Woodstock was hailed as an epic event of liberated youth, the even bigger 1973 festival at Watkins Glen was considered a casual outing. Between these two festivals youth somehow lost its mystique...
...book sometimes demonstrates. Not enough has been written about the cumulative effect of images, arranged for artful purposes, as in the great innovative LIFE picture essays like W. Eugene Smith's "Country Doctor" and "Spanish Village," Leonard McCombe's "Cowboy," and Mark Kauffman's mock-heroic epic of a Marine drill instructor going about his martial business...
...performance. If you try to remember that he is trying neither to be Brando or Dean, it is clear that he can act with a style his own. The film is harsh: black and white, loud brass background music, offbeat camera angles, and is something of a low-budget epic, the story of a middle class girl searching for her father on a cross-country pilgrimage. It is a high compliment to say that it is reminiscent of early Cassavetes films. Channel...
...only to see the Duke get skewered by one of Santa Ana's mean minions. It is something I have wanted to do for years, and it provided me much vicarious pleasure I must advise, however, that you have to wait until Friday and Part II to see this epic moment, as NBC is so sure you will watch both parts, enabling them to bombard you with twice as many commercials. Channel...