Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Girl with the Golden Eyes. When a rake and a dyke fall in love with the same girl, almost anything can happen, and practically everything does in Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's skillful but vicieuse version of a tale by Balzac...
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. The young man is Hemingway, as represented in the Nick Adams stories, which are here assembled in a charming, rambling, romantically melancholy tale of a boy attempting to get away from mother and become...
This simple tale is told with extreme sophistication of style. Cameraman George Ancona produces images of poetic loveliness-but the eye is not allowed to linger on the loveliness. The amateur actors are cast with acuity and seduced into expressiveness-but the eye is not allowed to ponder their expressions...
...much a political territory abandoned in 1947 as a continuing province of the heart-where seasons of love and hate are often slow to change. Exploring the life of one Englishman so smitten, Scott has turned out a strange novel, the kind of far-flung romantic British tale that might have been accused of Maughamism if its hero did not suffer so monumentally from an Oedipus complex. The lady in question is not his parent, who died when he was four, but Mother India...
...professor lasts 101 minutes, to be exact, and many of them will assuredly provide mercurochromatic relief for the screaming little monsters who habitually take a Saturday afternoon bloodbath. But while the children are goggling, their parents will be giggling-especially if they happen to have read the tall tale by Jules Verne from which the film is taken. Less than six decades after the author's death, his fantasies of the future read like parodies of the past, and Director Irwin Allen wisely plays for parody what he cannot turn to thrills. He laughs up his gasbag...