Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kind of Saga...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
Summarized, Zhivago's plot sounds like any conventional saga of Red Star-crossed lovers who meet, part, and meet again at all the crossroads of history. But if this be soap opera-and in some measure it is-the suds are set into motion by an impressive cast. As the poet-physician Zhivago, Sharif embodies both wounded sensibility and the simple, stubborn faith that a man need not sell heart and soul to prove his love of country. Julie Christie, frankly passionate and vulnerable as Lara, proves again that she is a vital presence on the screen. Steiger...
...lopsided nightmare filtered through spider webs and gauze. The second story re-creates an ancient sea battle in vividly stylized panels, then leaps centuries to describe how a blind poet-priest, tattooed with Holy Writ to ward off evil, has his ears cut off by the dead heroes whose saga he sings. The third episode is a tale-within-a-tale about a 19th century author of ghost stories who is seemingly destroyed by his own demonology...
...Sinister Madonna" is also the name of the first movie produced by the Ivy Film Society. The president of the society, Timothy Hunter '68, is behind the camera. He's the director and writer of his saga of the very near east...