Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...justice. Surely, though, he can never have been served as badly between covers as he is here on screen. This barbarous adaptation of his novel about a prison for Russian intellectuals prunes all the passion, humanity and immediacy from a story that, lacking them, becomes only a meager, melodramatic tale...
...testified against him were alternately offered bribes and issued threats to change their stories. In an effort to discredit the jurors in one trial, four bellhops at the hotel where the jurors had stayed were induced to tell a lurid story about the guests' behavior. When the tale was disproved and the bellhops fired, they were hired by a hotel on which the Teamsters held the mortgage. Later, several prostitutes came forward with similar revelations. One finally recanted; another was convicted of perjury...
MEDEA, by Euripides, is a tale of vitriolic passion. The heroine (Irene Papas) is a sorceress from Colchis. She falls in love with Jason (John P. Ryan) and helps him regain the Golden Fleece. In the process, Medea betrays her father and murders her brother...
...Many European paintings had to be moved to new galleries to make room for Henry Geldzahler's 1970 show of New York painting and sculpture, and the transfers gave Fahy and other curators an opportunity to re-examine the paintings and rewrite the labels. The result was a tale of artistic detective work, and an object lesson in how fragile and mysterious is the expertise that separates a supposed masterpiece from a craftsmanlike job or even a forgery...
CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON is the last of Rohmer's six moral tales, and the fourth to be distributed in the U.S. (La Collectioneuse, 1967, Ma Nutt Chez Maud, 1969, Claire's Knee, 1970). In each case the skeleton of the story is the same: a narrator committed to one woman, is attracted to another, but despite her seductiveness returns to the first. In each tale the character resists the temptations of the flesh in the name of moral principle. Rohmer insists that his films are not moral lessons but reflections upon morality. His method depends on ambiguity: when asked...