Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST, by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. From 1805 to 1877, Oregon's Nez Perce Indians were engaged in an epic struggle to preserve their identity; 750 of them retreated across four states until they were surrounded by U.S. troops and forced onto reservations. Author Josephy has written a big, thoroughly researched account of the trek...
Empathic Powers. Is Paris Burning? boasts a luminous roster: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas (as George Patton) and Glenn Ford (Omar Bradley). But it is significant that the actor that Paramount and Seven Arts signed up first for their $6,000,000 epic is blubbery (230 Ibs.) Gert Frobe. And it was not just on the strength of his Goldfinger portrayal. Though his international following dates only from that role, the 52-year-old Frobe has some 80 film credits, five acting awards, and an infinite range-from the frightening psychopath in It Happened in Broad...
Royal Hunt is just as purely an epic as is the lliad (and one could point out numerous parallels between the two). It also shows high quality in all six departments postulated by Aristotle for tragedy: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, song. Shaffer says he was aiming for "total this theatre," and he definitely has achieved it. For this is not just a play to be spoken. Lighting, sets, costumes, masks, instrumental music, singing, sound effects, mime, dance, ritual-all are wonderfully integrated and absolutely indispensable...
King Rat pumps new energy into the seemingly endless cycle of World War II film dramas, most of which are committed to tight-lipped heroics and epic battle scenes. This brutal,-unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp is made of stronger stuff. While retaining the scenario form of James Clavell's 1962 novel, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) often goes Clavell one better in the harsh words and harsher images that synthesize the horrors of Changi, an isolated compound near Singapore where 10,000 inmates struggle against starvation, disease...
...only bemoan the fate of this poor play, too intellectual for Broadway and too epic for anywhere else. Still Michael Cacoyannis, so promising in the past, can shy away from greatness only with shame. For unless this production is reworked to achieve its potential, The Devils will remain a better play to read than...