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Their journey repeats the classic American immigrant sagas. To escape the old country (the ration line, the future foreclosed, the totalitarian rant), they climb aboard overcrowded boats and go pitching out across the water to a different life. When they glimpse the new land, they throng to the rails; they...
Both of his space sagas have mythological themes, but, so adroit is Lucas' art, both of them can be enjoyed simply as rousing adventure stories, which they are. "I'm not out to be thought of as an artist," Lucas declares. "It's a big world and...
In this concluding volume of one of the true-life romantic sagas of our time, Arthur Rubinstein conquers new continents, uncounted women and, seemingly, mortality itself. He pursues his improbable but triumphant course down to the present, when, at 93, retired from public performing, partially blind, he still reigns as...
BRECHT'S Caucasian Chalk Circle is yet another of his sagas of strong proletarian women fighting for a better world, women who retain their belief in goodness despite bourgeois disorder and chaos. One sees echoes of Grusha's stamina in Brecht's Mother Courage and St. Joan. If the world...
Rather than pretend that this material makes any naturalistic sense, Director Mark Rydell (Cinderella Liberty) shrewdly goes for broke. The Rose has the same visual excess and garish romanticism as the oldtime Technicolor backstage sagas. When Rose gets into a yelling match with her manager (a somewhat forlorn Alan Bates...