Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truly interesting figure in the movie is that of Cardigan's able young antagonist, the dashing Captain Nolan (David Hemmings). Nolan is, on the surface, the hero of the saga: he earned his commission by fighting in India rather than by paying in London, he disapproves of flogging, he falls in love, and he is a skilled horseman and soldier. But in a film where most of the other characters exhibit a That-Was-the-Week-That-Was simplicity, Nolan is a very ambiguous figure. For while he lacks Cardigan's fanatical obsession with form and privilege, Nolan...
...play has the aspect of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it like a stampede: all decibels and no deftness. Either everyone shouts, or everyone postures in animated tableaux that look like posters left over from some social-protest movement of the '30s. Ostensibly pro-Negro, the play peculiarly caters to the stereotyped image of the Negro as forever singing, dancing, fighting, drinking and wenching. As for the question of racial injustice, the play provides a kind of false catharsis. It is the equivalent of appointing a congressional committee to investigate an air crash. It eases...
ABDUCTED by Joseph E. Levine, chained in a dungeon with Steve Reeves (and a cast of thousands), the epic saga has arisen. In Hagbard and Signe the cinesaga stands up, wipes off the grade-C slime, and brings to film the stature of its literary counterpart...
Director Gabriel Axel has stayed faithful to the saga form without being ponderous or literary. His shots and sequences flow into verses and chapters. Each segment is introduced by a lengthy, panoramic shot as the visual storyteller sets his scene...
...wound 31 others. Charles Whitman strolled into an Austin hardware store and picked out several boxes of rifle cartridges. What was all the ammunition for? the clerk asked. "To shoot some pigs," Whitman answered calmly. In all its chilling banality, that scene is faithfully reproduced in this lightly fictionalized saga of a mass murderer. Self-consciously billed as the answer to the question "Why Gun Control?", Targets eventually falls victim to artistic overkill...