Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY tells the Runyonesque tale of a doll who tries to trade the dance hall for domesticity but can't find the right guy to play house with. Bob Fosse's direction and choreography are sophisticated...
FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury's somber tale of a futuristic society where reading is forbidden has been refurbished by France's François Truffaut (Jules and Jim) into a strangely humorous, coolly competent little film that stars Oskar Werner as a book-burning fireman and Julie Christie as both of the women in his life...
SWEET CHARITY tells the Runyonesque tale of a doll who tries to trade the dance hall for domesticity but can't find the guy to go with it. Bob Fosse's direction and choreography are suave and sophisticated...
BARTÓK: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (London). Melodic, dreamily dissonant and heavy with musical sighs, Bartók's only opera uses the fairy tale merely as a symbol. When Bluebeard's last wife insists upon opening the doors in his dark castle, she intrudes upon his past and, to her sorrow, resurrects his other wives, still very much alive in his memory. Christa Ludwig is forceful as Judith, whose curiosity leads her to her doom, and Walter Berry (Christa's real-life husband) is mellowly desolate as Bluebeard. Sung in Hungarian, with Istvan Kertesz conducting...
FAHRENHEIT 451. In adapting Fantasticist Ray Bradbury's tale of a society where reading is against the law, French Director Francois Truffaut has created a weirdly gay film that makes up in entertainment what it lacks in relevance. Truffaut's hero is a book-burning fireman (Oskar Werner) whose job is to start fires rather than put them out. Julie Christie plays a dual role as his TV-addicted mate and the book-loving girl who changes his life...