Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...module, which comprises parts of the opera's first, third and fourth acts, was unveiled in January to popular acclaim in Cologne. It was followed in March by Act V, with music by Glass, in Rome. Late last month the U.S. made its contribution to Wilson's epic with the premiere in Minneapolis of the Knee Plays, crucial connecting episodes tinged with delicate orientalism that link the vast work's 15 scenes. All the sections, including the still unperformed French and Japanese portions, were to be presented next month in Los Angeles at the Olympic Arts Festival...
...attempt to give a new perspective to the age-old tale of the mutiny on the Bounty. What results, unfortunately, is a disjointed series of scenes that interest us only for their beauty and spectacular cinematography while the plot gets lost along with the characters. But an epic needs a substantial drama to make it an epic, and by reducing the importance of the plot in The Bounty, the movie becomes a two-hour long montage of pretty pictures that would look better on postcards...
...Gibson, as Mr. Christian, shows himself capable of expressing with anguished force the conflict between duty and decency that has been tearing at him. The trouble stems from the crude truncation of a script that began many years ago as blueprint for a two-part David Lean epic. Originally the idea must have been to free the story of its mythical and melodramatic encrustations and get at something like the historical truth. The finished film offers fragmentary evidence of an attempt to show Bligh, not Christian, as the liberal spirit, an ambitious, intelligent, even sensitive representative of the rising middle...
Nature never seemed so still or so spiritual as in his photographs. In their purity and precision, their balance of epic vistas and exquisite detail, Ansel Adams' photographs celebrated an ideal vision of nature and the American West. That black-and-white vision was of a landscape unsullied by neon and Day-Glo plastic, a majestic continent that still seemed for all the world like a new-found land. Passionate about art and nature, Adams tolerated the desecration of neither. At his death from heart disease last week near his home in Carmel, Calif., Adams, 82, the bearded...
Traditionally, spring marks the dog days of the movie business. This year, though, Hollywood is sending up a happy howl over a quartet of surprise hits: Disney's man-meets-mermaid comedy Splash ($37.5 million in 31 days); Warners' tony Tarzan epic Greystoke ($14.8 million in ten days); Fox's distaff Raiders rip-off'Romancing the Stone (5/2.5 million in ten days); and a rowdy ensemble farce, Police Academy (an astonishing $30 million in its first 17 days). Herewith, reports on three new contenders and the reigning champ...