Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised to a high level of creative cinema by Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych's stark symbolism...
...each other's throats again in this almost literal translation of Neil Simon's Broadway hit. Actor Matthau's comic genius makes amends for the static mise en scéne. BELLE DE JOUR. Ranging easily from anticlerical broadsides to highly polished pornography, this bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a beautiful young wife (Catherine Deneuve) makes a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis...
HOUR OF THE WOLF. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman relates another of his parables of the dark night of the soul in this eerily symbolic tale of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist...
Emperor's Council of State. Subsequently, Ladislau Netto, director of the national museum, worked out a crude translation. Though Netto was convinced of the inscription's authenticity, he never located the original stones, and his contemporaries generally scoffed at the story as a fairy tale. Translations of the inscription that circulated among scholars of the day were so garbled that they justified the scoffing...
Garble. The Phoenician text has a pedigree almost as strange as the tale it tells. In 1872, a slave belonging to a landowner named Joaquim Alves de Costa supposedly found the inscription on a broken stone tablet on his sprawling estate in the tropical rain forests of Brazil's Paraíba state. Costa's son, a draftsman, made a copy of the baffling markings and sent it to the Brazilian