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...SUNDAY, May 26, Merce Cunningham and his dance company completed their triumphant eight-show New York season. Five years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...
...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...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised by Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych's stark symbolism to a high level of creative cinema...
...certainly explicit. At the preview, a large, coffinlike object, covered with black fur and with a slit across the lid, was rolled onto the museum floor. Out from its pink, uterine interior stepped Phyllis Kronhausen, 39, dressed in a see-through minidress and nothing else. Neither she nor a stark-naked violinist offered much competition to the art, which included erotic Indian sculpture, a Guinea fertility goddess, a Rembrandt etching of the artist and his wife disporting in a four-poster bed, a Picasso engraving of a couple copulating, and a vast variety of dildos and phalli...
Director Brynych's stark, symbolic explorations of human despair lift The Fifth Horseman to a high level of creative cinema. The search by the secret police for Braun's wounded patient is more conventional, though still visually exciting. When the other tenants living in Braun's apartment house are eventually implicated, they become only too willing to sacrifice him to the Nazis, and when at last they are forced to pass his dead body on the stairs, only a madwoman and a child so much as give it a glance...