Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WANTING SEED, by Anthony Burgess. Taking overpopulation as his theme, Novelist Burgess has measured its possible effects in a gruesome cautionary tale of the future wherein infanticide, cannibalism and government-planned extermination are imperative for survival of the human race...
Thus fact and fantasy interweave in this first feature by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington. Shot along the Southern California beach front on a $75,000 budget, the film emits an uncommon glow of freshness and imagination. Harrington daringly chose to unfold his realistic tale of suspense as if he were Edgar Allan Poe with a megaphone, and most of the time the experiment succeeds. He heightens reality, giving a nightmare quality to commonplace events. Soon even the ripple of bath water begins to sound ominous. In one scene, punctuated by echoes, the pilings under an old pier are transformed into...
...honors for Russia at the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, will interest Westerners chiefly because it lets the light of day shine on some ideas new to the insular world of Soviet cinema. Director Grigori Chukhrai, who proved his talent with the sensitive, romanticized Ballad of a Soldier, tells a tale of illicit love-and tells it straight, without prudish apologies, against a background of post-World War II political tyranny. The off-screen villain of the piece is Joseph Stalin...
James Joyce did a terrible thing for a whole generation of writers when he put that tape recorder inside the skull of Leopold Bloom. James Patrick Donleavy, a Dublin-educated New York novelist, ran off a lively spool or two in a novel called The Ginger Man, a picaresque tale of low life and high philosophy in Dublin's slums. He has now reverted to tape in a second novel, this one called A Singular Man, whose hero, equipped with the Joyce instant-playback brain, goes all over the Blooming place in Manhattan...
Anguished in spirit but comic in detail, Author Carruth's convoluted tale is a convincing, step-by-step chronicle of a mind stretching beyond its breaking point. But Appendix A is more than case history. If modern man predicates his behavior on a world of non-meaning, Carruth suggests, even the hint of meaning can cripple...