Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After reading this scenario-style book, you've practically already seen the movie. The familiar saga about the slum kid who fights his way to fame and wealth in the prize ring is here re-enacted in real-life Spain, where the classic path out of poverty into glory is the bull ring. The hero is El Cordobés (real name: Manuel Benítez), at 32 the most celebrated bullfighter in the world, if not always the most admired (TIME, June...
...head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
Futz! is less likely to stir the senses than raise the gorge. Rochelle Owens' play is a sad saga of bestiality. Her preposterous moral is that people are beastlier than animals, particularly to a boy who prefers to make love to a sow. Cyrus Futz (John Bakos) loves Amanda, his sow, like a wife. A nympholeptic human pig gets jealous and goads the village rednecks into slaying the boy, preparatory to killing Amanda...
...MANTLE. This Danish-Swedish film is a beautiful, occasionally bloody saga of the conflict of love and honor in medieval Iceland...
...MANTLE. This Danish-Swedish film is a beautiful, occasionally bloody saga of the conflict of love and honor in medieval Iceland...