| 单词 | fable |
| 例句 | I meant why was she alive and not just a fable, but Gum Baby misunderstood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was a rumor, a fable, but it was a rumor and fable from which marvels emerged, carried by camels across the desert to fire the imaginations of folk the world over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mom was also a writer and was always typing away on novels, short stories, plays, poetry, fables, and children’s books, which she illustrated herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Her misunderstanding would have been comic had we read of it in a romantic fable. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Using costumes, sets, and props, the participants arranged themselves to depict some recognizable scene—a famous painting, perhaps, or a well-known fable. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone’s advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then the Warrior’s sword is only a fable?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Whereas my father once told stories of historic battles and heroic Xhosa warriors, my mother would enchant us with Xhosa legends and fables that had come down from numberless generations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An elder with gray hair and a beard began a fable about a baboon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z With a harshness of accent not usually his, he said, “I shall relate a fable.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By then, the twine was a family fable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Goodness, you act like it’s a fable. It’s a true story. Does truth have a moral?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Martial myths are as believable as Tribal fables of jinn and the Nightbringer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z So that was another story to file with all the previous fables about Onofre’s missing arm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The correct response to this is to be found in one of Aesop’s fables, ‘The Braggart’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There had been, once upon a time, a great deal of curiosity surrounding the vanished city and its fate, but after two centuries, it had become little more than a fable. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I loved to read about ancient Rome, and I was quicker than my brother to find the lessons in the fables of Aesop. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I am sure of that. Amy and you never did quarrel as we used to. She is the sun and I the wind, in the fable, and the sun managed the man best, you remember.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The stories Eddie had jotted down in his goofy, blocky handwriting, from his own silly creations to the fables Nana used to tell us when we were younger, when she’d come up to visit. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z "Can you prove any word of this fable?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The gazettes printed reports of raided depots and station agents brought to raw justice, but those were common slave-state fables. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the Hamiltons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s no question that this Texas-of-the- mind fable is often synthetic, sometimes untruthful, and frequently romantic, but that in no way diminishes its strength as a symbol. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “As you wish. We have also prepared a tableau based on Aesop’s well-loved fable ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf.’” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We are like the twins in old fables, each of whom has been given half a key. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They turned the house upside down, taking virtually every piece of paper they could find, including the transcripts I had recently been making of my mother’s recollections of family history and tribal fables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragons in fables breathe fire from their mouths. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He tried to remember if he knew anything about that or if it were only a fable. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z This is the charming and imaginative little fable the boy invented. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The other man, also big and fair-skinned, looked older because of his meaner, sharp-featured face like an animal's in a beast fable a child knows by looking at the picture not to trust. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Story Box. A treasure vault for tales and ballads. A repository for lullabies and fables older than the sun, some familiar, some no one has ever heard before.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And he also crafts one hell of a fable of heroism. Pick of the week: A moody samurai answer to Batman 2012-07-20T00:00:00Z The intentions are honorable and the grief is real; Grossman created this fable as a way of addressing his own trauma after losing a son. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The title work of this 1936 collection is a Kafkaesque fable: Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Rather than emphasizing the fables' interconnections and reverberations, "M/M/C" operates more like a three-ring plot circus. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z But neither does the fable end with that relationship’s demise. The House That Mouse Built 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain," is deliberately more fable than biopic. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He teaches the fables of La Fontaine, and in an inspired stroke invites the students to invent their own. Movie Review: ?Monsieur Lazhar,? Oscar Nominee From Philippe Falardeau 2012-04-12T21:50:36Z If pushed, I'd say it was a futuristic fable about an England in which the countryside was in crisis, food was scarce and the fox had become a universal scapegoat. Y for Young Writers 2012-05-29T12:06:50Z But it also could shape up to be a fable about how assumption and disparagement can be turned to the underdog’s advantage. Mucky intent makes “Taboo” a questionable proposition 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The recent season premiere of “Atlanta” turned a true-crime story about an adoptive family into a hallucinatory fable about the racism of the well-intentioned. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Katkout finds himself sheltering at Fahd’s house and bonding with his friend’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who is a combination of crone and court jester, but whose fables help Katkout cope with his loneliness. Review | In ‘Mama Hissa’s Mice,’ three Kuwaiti boys find solace in fables 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z This week: Get into the holiday spirit with three productions of "A Christmas Carol," including South Coast Rep's 36th annual staging of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday fable. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 22-29: 'A Christmas Carol' and more 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It's an Orwellian fable about a group of Soviet architecture students who build a vast, floating swimming pool that they propel across the Atlantic by swimming laps. Art and the hidden depths of the humble public pool 2012-08-03T16:55:30Z Refreshingly — and necessarily — Mr. Nicholaw brings a softer touch to this period fable about a restless young girl who befriends a family with a mysterious secret. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The epic tale of two boys making their way across the terrifying bridge between youth and maturity delivers the old-fashioned delights of traditional fable in the rapturously inventive terms of timeless theater. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' reminds us of the power of courage in the face of evil 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z That’s not a flaw; it’s what allowed Johnson’s fable to age so well. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Hell, a distressing percent are more inclined to believe fables than fact-based narratives originating from cultures Westerners have been taught to devalue or ignore. With "African Queens: Njinga" a previously overlooked history spectacularly springs into action 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Nothing less than a narrative about the Titanic’s sinking, “Tempest” can be read as something of a state-of-the-disunion fable. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z Manguel's short fable in the "Elsewhere, Far from Here" series of new writings that have been commissioned by the festival shows the freedom and delight that reading can give. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Featuring 14 actors who rollick around and amid the audience areas and band pit, channeling 60-plus characters, the staging brightens and complements Brecht’s all-too-relevant fable about power, self-interest, callousness and social inequality. Review | A Brecht saga from Constellation and a historical play from GALA 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z But it is also why hip-hop narratives, like the “Walk This Way” saga, continue to hold so much appeal, almost as America’s national fable: They reinforce the myth of the American dream. Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song That Changed Everything 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Groth described it as “a camouflaged assault on contemporary culture” and “a carefully rendered cautionary fable for the autumn of America.” With Technology, Sundance Films Make It to Screen Faster 2012-01-17T23:09:59Z His "Life of Pi" is a fable set in glorious 3-D, but Spielberg looked like the favorite for "Lincoln." `Argo' wins best picture on scattered Oscar night 2013-02-25T18:25:11Z Oscar voters may well end up weighing "The Fighter" against "Black Swan," made by Russell's friend and producer Darren Aronofsky -- a similar fable, told in vastly different fashion -- but no matter who wins, nobody loses. "The Fighter": From small-town palooka to champion 2010-12-10T01:30:00Z It's a lot darker than it sounds, almost something like a grim fable crossed with one of those classic Disney live-action films like "Swiss Family Robinson" or "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Scarecrow Video suggestions for "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" 2011-05-18T13:12:51Z This seems right: The gaps in his surreal fables are the dark interstices in which new sympathies may fester. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s “Gone Girl” put through a Gallic blender, dressed up with notes from classic manipulation and sanity fables — “Single White Female,” “Misery,” “The Shining,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” — and robustly anointed with Sartrean navel gazing. Friendship or Identity Theft? In This French Best Seller, It’s Hard to Tell. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The classic Willow pattern, which is based on a famous Mandarin fable, was created and popularized by a British porcelainmaker. An Exhibition at Fondation Bernardaud in France Explores Blue-and-White China in Contemporary Art 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z These people are extreme cases like me, people who weighed more than 400 pounds and whose “after” falls short of the fable. All the weight I didn’t lose 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z While this production may have originated at the Chichester Festival Theater in England, it seems an apt cautionary fable for New York, world capital of success-bloated egos. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z Navy veteran turned private investigator investigates the West Virginia fable of the Mothman. What to watch on Thursday: ‘Class Action Park’ on HBO Max 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s something much rarer and more difficult to categorize: a moral fable of silent faith, perhaps, or a tale of what really matters in a time of strife, violence and hatred. Stars of Malick's "A Hidden Life": When saying no is "enough to change the world" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z If the show’s concluding fable about the stalking of a sacred blue stag seems a bit metaphorically muddled, it offers a signal image that captures this vibrant show’s distinctive tone. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The Old Man and the Old Moon West Coast premiere of PigPen Theatre Co.’s fantastical musical fable about one man’s epic quest to find his missing wife. L.A. theater openings, May 14-21: 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' and more 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Instead, he abandons the sharp realism of his previous novels, such as “Capital,” and gives us a fable about a wall. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “Spencer built a fable that helps people deal with change in a really accessible way,” said Ivan Held, president of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, which published the book. Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Nearly a century ago, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf released a slim book of spiritual fables by an obscure Lebanese-American poet and painter named Kahlil Gibran. New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z When the soundtrack to this Coen brothers fable was released in 2000, Daniel Menaker wrote in The Times that it “has to be one of the least mainstream Hollywood soundtracks ever offered for sale.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ and ‘The Act’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z However, despite productions like the Pyat books, which are maximalist fables of the type that have made global stars out of Pynchon or Rushdie, Moorcock has never shown any interest in eschewing genre. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z As a piece of canonized literary history, yes — but as a fable of modern resonance? Seattle's Intiman Theatre premieres a new adaptation of 'The Scarlet Letter' 2010-10-20T23:20:00Z And few fields are so cluttered with such fables as the history of music. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z How is "Serial" different from "true crime" fables in which America's carceral society is made into public entertainment? True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They also saw a project — a mix of feminist fable and romantic fairy tale — that could resonate with women, who drive Broadway sales. Sara Bareilles Takes Her Slice of Broadway With ‘Waitress’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Without astute comic performances like these the play might curdle before revealing itself fully as a fable for our times, about people so uncertain of the right path that they risk taking none. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Mendoza, is a gentle fable about letting go — and letting your freak flag fly. "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In our urge to seek profundity within these power fables, we forget that we're supposed to have fun with them. HBO Max's uproarious "Peacemaker" remembers to have fun in a brooding superhero landscape 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “The Painting”: An animated French fable that brings the inhabitants of artworks to life. Cars, food and pride | Weekend Preview 2013-06-26T21:15:52Z “I’m looking for the angle which will allow me to come closer and closer still; I’m looking for a place which is neither truth nor fable, but both at once.” Tessa Hadley’s ‘Clever Girl,’ and More 2014-03-26T20:42:56Z The show's origin was as serpentine as a forest path in a Grimm fable. 'Into the Woods' reunion shows Sondheim can still cast a spell 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But on the surface, this is a story with singing animals, so it ought, surely, to be a fairytale or at least a fable? The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z “The Other Side of Hope,” his first feature since “Le Havre” in 2011 is a wry social-realist fable about the European refugee crisis, a funny and affecting appeal for decency in the face of suffering. Wonders in a Grim World: The New York Film Festival’s Best Trick 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Remaining true to the novel, “The Light Between Oceans” steadily becomes a strained fable about forgiveness and revenge that sabotages its best intentions by taking one too many plot turns. Review: A Baby in a Boat Changes Everything in ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Kneehigh, whose art is populist and highly personable, achieves here the theatrical equivalent of a graphic novel — a colorful and richly inventive stage fable where myth and music seductively entwine. Kneehigh's 'Tristan & Yseult' an alluring blend of myth, music 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Despite the dark nature of the film that Michod compares to a dark fable, he hoped the end result is more optimistic for audiences. Pearce and Pattinson form unlikely friendship in Michod's film 'Rover' 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z And, as the original trailer hammers home – even as it sternly asserts this is a fable of how evil can infect the clear conscience – it is a bargain. My favourite Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train 2012-08-02T16:55:00Z Her 1959 hit “Once Upon a Mattress,” a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fable “The Princess and the Pea,” made a star of Carol Burnett. ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ composer Mary Rodgers dies 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z A coming-of-age story, however realistic it might be, is also a kind of fable, a picture of how we hope things turn out. Movie Review: ?Girl in Progress? With Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez 2012-05-10T21:10:33Z "Boys" is the best word, because of the patriarchal gender bias of the press corps, but also because, like children, mainstream pundits are often the most gleeful prisoners and propagators of political fable. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z “All Is Lost” is at once an epic of individual survival and a fable of how the recklessness of the privileged can be mistaken for mastery, with disastrous consequences. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z But, he added, of his take on a work that has been variously seen as a parable of industrial capitalism, a feminist fable, an absurdist fantasia and much more: “It’s not a politics-free zone.” The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Attentive viewers will easily read between the lines to see that in the fable; the unnamed wolf is Amazon. Jonathan Franzen tells Stephen Colbert a bedtime story 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z He sure seemed to be on the fast track to the top as he detailed plans for his second project, a fable about a girl whisked away to a remote island, in early 2013. The problem with Wendy: how did an Oscar-nominated director get it so wrong? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z King, of course, authored the short story upon which most famous cinematic prison fable of modern times, 1994's “The Shawshank Redemption,” is based. “Escape at Dannemora” is no “Shawshank Redemption” — and that’s on purpose 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Another Asian fable that speaks to Frederick is the hungry ghost, a phantom rendered insatiable by his or her own evil deeds or intentions. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Television and our tastes have evolved in ways that make us better able to appreciate Gaiman's fable . Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z And, for all the references to bombings in Lahore, this version lacks the political power of Lorca's fable. The House of Bilquis Bibi 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z The story was an anti-suicide tract and a fable about acceptance before it was ever a zombie tale, closer in its first episode to 2007 rehabilitation drama Boy A than anything by George Romero. With In The Flesh, BBC3 gave us huggable zombies 2013-04-01T09:45:07Z In his use of strobes, choreography and that needling music, he makes Crystal’s story a cautionary fable, febrile and disturbing. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z The fourth type is where Abdolah takes some fable peddled by the Islamic republic and then, inexplicably, treats it as history. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z And I would like to believe that “The Sneetches” remains the fun fable about the pitfalls of prejudice that I remember. Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “Inside Out” is an exuberant fable about the importance of sadness. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z This is one of the first major movies to use a circus troupe as the setting for an allegorical fable about the performing artist's complicated relationship to society and domestic life. "The Circus": Chaplin's little-known masterpiece 2010-07-14T01:01:00Z And again and again: he has a book called “O”—a fable, he says, modelled on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”—coming out later this year in Indonesian. Burning bright 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Some might even see this three-part Hobbit project as an example of the greed that Tolkien defined as the cardinal sin in both of his grand fables. Review: Do Enlist in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z This doesn’t make “Her” better than “Ex Machina,” but it does mean that, while “Her” seems to present a plausible vision of the future, “Ex Machina” feels more like a fable. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But despite the book’s frequent attention to realistic details, it is securely situated in fable territory, and Mozley’s sheer storytelling confidence sends the reader sailing past almost every speed bump. ‘Elmet’ Backs a Brawny Man Into a Dangerous Corner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Ultimately, however, "When Women Were Birds" is fable/memoir/morality tale sans proscriptions. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z Canby described True Grit as "a classic frontier fable that manages to be most entertaining even when it's being most reactionary". True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z Her art is always sunnier than his, and you wonder where the real revolution in an updated fable might lie. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z There are countless fables about wines and olive oil. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Many of the fables are antic, others too terrifying to read at night. Indigenous Stories for Young Readers 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z "The Dam Keeper": Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi directed this fable about a young pig that takes care of a town's dam while being bullied in school. 'Feast': A doggie tale built around the dinner table 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Winter Solstice A bourgeois family welcomes a mysterious stranger on Christmas Eve in the West Coast premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s darkly comic fable about the resurgence of fascism. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: 'Winter Solstice,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Terry has noticed, as have others, the Aesopian motifs that occur, and includes slender, playful versions, sometimes modernised, of Aesop's fables himself. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z The stories of the saints he regarded as preposterous fables invented to hoodwink a gullible and illiterate populace. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z “Twice Born” wants to be for the Bosnian conflict what Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” was for the Lebanese civil war: a fable of memory and atrocity with an embattled mother at its center. Movie Review: ‘Twice Born’ Stars Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch 2013-12-05T22:27:14Z “Tam-Tam Boy” is an African fable about an enchanted instrument and its virtuoso; “The Boy Who Never Lied,” about an innocent whose honesty is tested, offers Tibetan textures. Movie Review: Michel Ocelot’s Animated Film ‘Tales of the Night’ 2012-09-25T23:18:01Z If it’s a fable, it’s a political fable, an allegory of powerlessness, revolt and liberation. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z I wanted the Winters saga to go back to being a swashbuckling fable about the heroic Addiction Doctor healing me. The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke has for some time now been making brilliantly acute fables of modern China: a huge country undergoing a dislocating upheaval while still not fully recovered from the last one. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z While Growing Seeds was influenced by the painful end of a relationship, Perfect View took inspiration from morality and a fable based on King Herod ordering the murder of his second wife. Lust for Youth – Breaking Silence: New music 2013-05-08T06:00:00Z What prevents it from being more than a stylized and rather cruel fable is exactly what prevents "Blood Simple" from being more than that. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z But certainly nobody reading this book will easily retain faith in the Hollywood fable of Mr Snowden’s bravery and brilliance. How Edward Snowden changed history 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z But the impression it leaves is didactic, a saints and demons fable that meanders to foregone conclusions. ‘The Legend of Molly Johnson’ Review: Reclaiming the Australian Frontier 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z But the film is a fable in which he appraises his life, and his ultimate appointment is with death. Cosmopolis – review 2012-06-16T23:05:37Z It’s a masculine melodrama that doubles as a fable of social catastrophe. Review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and the Tides of Grief 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Musical fable features favorite Dr. Seuss characters including the Cat in the Hat and Horton the elephant. The week ahead in L.A. theater, June 25-July 2: Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival and more 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z "Spencer," about Diana, Princess of Wales, is billed as "a fable from a true tragedy." Kristen Stewart stuns in the moody "Spencer," a gorgeous yet superficial biopic of Princess Di 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z “Her story,” Eatwell writes, became “a fable illustrating the dangers posed to women” by Hollywood. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The government and other official bodies should steer clear of mixing fact and fable, he says. Officials everywhere are now perpetuating the Santa conspiracy to your kids 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z In 1981, he published “Midnight’s Children,” a magical realist fable set in India just after Partition, which won the Booker Prize and launched his career. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The Toad Prince Puppetry troupe Tears of Joy Theatre stages this classic Chinese fable; for ages 3 and up. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Dec. 3-10: 'Hamilton's' Leslie Odom, Jr. and more 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Maclean’s film is lit with a glow, like a fable “to comment on storytelling and the myths of the west”, which he directly punctures with sly humor. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a heart-shaped Rubik’s Cube, a funny, consistently surprising fable of broken machines trying to reassemble themselves. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Other fables by the writer, such as the story of heroic mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the tale of elephant handler, Toomai, are likely to be ignored once again. Disney casts 10-year-old newcomer as Mowgli in Jon Favreau's Jungle Book 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z And it's one of those songs that felt like a fable almost, like, "Oh, you know that song?" "There's an underscore of melancholy": "The Bear" producer breaks down season's best needle drops 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Nearly all of the stories hum with sweet nostalgia, and some even dispatch the kind of moral one would expect from a fable or a fairy tale. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Dove’s staging features animated projections to help tell an origin myth that Vivienne has made up about Alzheimer’s, a fable intended to explain and to soothe. Alzheimer’s gets a warm face in ‘Blackberry Winter’ by Forum Theatre 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Althoff’s images each seem cut from an illustrated storybook fable based on real life — that is, on a real person’s fantasies of traveling through time into both history and the psyche. | Kai Althoff's Crash Pad 2011-01-26T19:33:28Z A fable of power dissipates in a fantasy of rescue. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Set in present-day Atlanta, “Last Days” walks a sometimes fuzzy line between heartening fable and realistic, kitchen-sink character drama. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z An astronomer wrangles herself a hunky cowboy in the new holiday fable "One Starry Christmas." TV This Week Oct. 26 - Nov. 1: 'Winter's Tale' on HBO 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But the fact that this story is really happening, and that we don’t know how it will end, doesn’t mean that it’s not a symbolic spectacle, or an allegorical fable. Trapped in a cave: A true story with mythic roots and symbolic power 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Refn's breakthrough film is successful in quite a different way, as an injection of clear, cool European technique into a classic American fable of guns, cars, girls and money. Cannes: Ryan Gosling's dazzling, sleek new thrill ride 2011-05-20T20:21:00Z There is an over-reliance on absurdist fable, as in the distasteful title story, in which an executioner uses the imminent killing of a young girl on death row to impress his implacable new bride. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z This new season's episode titles, by the way, link together as a larger fable. "The Good Fight" makes the Kafka-esque dream of a People's Court a reality 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The sly question teased in “Unbreakable,” the mystery that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill grandiose superhero fables, is whether Dunn is the real deal or if Glass merely wants a foil worthy of his self-aggrandizement. ‘Glass’ Movie Review: A Nutty Ride With M. Night Shyamalan 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It's a deft romance, an exercise in camp, and a fable about male pride and its pitfalls. The Love and Death of Caterina by Andrew Nicoll ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:07Z The eight fables in Machado’s book, a finalist for the National Book Award, all depict women on the verge. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z After all, the president has been spinning fables about his “beautiful wall” for years. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z He takes his own emotional cues from, among others, the spooky work of the 19th- and early 20th-century illustrator Arthur Rackham and uncanny fables of Hans Christian Andersen. Front Row: In Tim Walker Fashion Photos, Mermaids Come to Life 2013-12-19T01:18:11Z Get Rich Or Die Tryin', was essentially a similar social mobility fable. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z Whether you’ll enjoy your stay there will partly depend on your tolerance for winsome fables for adults. Theater Review: ‘The Hatmaker’s Wife,’ a Comedy by Lauren Yee 2013-09-06T21:03:59Z Tone is everything in a social fable, and for most of the movie Borte, a German-born video director making his first feature, shows an impressive command of mood and pace. The Joneses Review: Keeping Up With Them Could Kill You 2010-04-16T01:10:00Z There are fables about good men and royalty and supernatural touches. My streaming gem: why you should watch Happy as Lazzaro 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Last year Breillat had a swipe at Bluebeard; now, in another film that played Venice before coming to Toronto, she tilts Charles Perrault's fable of the princess with the hundred-year snooze. Toronto Film Festival: 10 Films to Talk About 2010-09-19T13:55:00Z The Sunrise Club Young students contemplate the end of life on Earth as they know it in Tara Turnbull’s futuristic fable. L.A. theater openings, July 3-10: 'right left with heels' and more 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The arrival of Melancholia — the planet, that is — reverses the traditional moral of that fable. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z It can equally — and this may amount to the same thing — be seen as upholding the Hollywood western tradition of turning complicated historical events and characters into fables and heroes. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z But we also made hits out of grifter fables like "The Dropout," "Inventing Anna" and documentaries like "The Tinder Swindler." "Bullsh*t: The Game Show" and our love of liars and lying 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The two-part album series “House of Gold and Bones,” each half of which was accompanied by a related comic book, burns through accelerated riffs and knee-deep sludge in a fable of lost adolescence. Pop & Rock Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:19:54Z Which demands a caveat: It’s best to read just one or two of Ahern’s fables at a time. Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Had DeLillo created a world of pure abstraction where the reader would be left to float in the zero-gravity chamber of the death fable, everything to think about and nothing to latch on to? Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The book begins with an alternative flood fable that first appeared in 1962 and ends with an alien invasion tale from 2016. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Warmly giggling at some spots, she weaves a fable about a beautiful young tree that does everything right. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The Spanish film “Timecode,” about the clandestine activities of parking garage security guards, might seem equally slight, but it reveals itself to be a sly fable of creative resistance in the face of deadening routine. Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Unsung but Worth Your Time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Often, when Lifetime traffics in true crime, it spins fables of women in peril, girls on the run, and demented nursemaids. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Partly a fable about the Industrial Revolution, “Frankenstein” itself has become a scholarly and commercial industry, and a host of electrifying new works has been issued to celebrate the bicentenary of its publication. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He has moved with a smooth, urbane grace across storytelling genres and filmmaking styles, including bracing contemporary dramas, whimsical fables, camp parables and the odd musical. 'Young & Beautiful's' Francois Ozon savors challenges of film 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Ten singers will perform this fantastical fable involving deceit, desire and the titular magic flute, to piano accompaniment. Weekend Miser: Chelsea Symphony Offers Holiday Music 2012-12-06T20:51:05Z This "Fargo" chapter is distinct in that sense, in that it takes a supposedly "true" crime story and widens the lens to spin a fable of American identity. "Fargo" season 4 has spun a complex, compelling American fable of race and crime 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Herring in a Fur Coat could be the title of a Soviet absurdist fable about a proletarian Cinderella who rejects the czarevitch and runs off with the rat turned coachman. Masha & the Bear in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z For a fresher, icier alternative, Finnish evil-Santa fable Rare Exports is on wide release. Christmas film seasons and special screenings 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z Johnson’s big-print fable captured the imagination of a whole generation of managers, but the question of what moved “Who Moved My Cheese?” remains something of a mystery. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Rather than a fable of regeneration through violence, it’s a gentle, therapeutic parable built over a deep reservoir of pain and hard feelings. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z MB Bristol Old Vic takes over King Street again for an open-air family show based on Michael Morpurgo's versions of Aesop's fables. The best theatre for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:20:01Z I love the fable aspect of this and that it comes from the opera and fable "Lorelei," and this nymph that lures men to their death. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z If he were left alone, without lights, sound, projections or Dane Laffrey’s curving, swerving set, he might put across this fable even more convincingly. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z There are unmistakable gothic elements in Ewa’s tale, which is to some extent a lurid fable of wronged innocence, irrational cruelty and wild coincidence set in a landscape of betrayal, brutality and corruption. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The ecological fable is recounted on gently rounded ceramic panels, each a different color. In the galleries: Step right up and see the sideshow 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s a fable – one with an origin in reality, but a fable nonetheless. Roots remake: seminal slavery narrative still resonates in revamped miniseries 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z In a German fable, one freezing night some porcupines pressed close together to get warm, but hurt each other with their quills. Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached ‘peak asshole’? 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z But rather than a spiritual meditation on the great beyond, or a dystopian fable, Elfman’s road movie fits the largely conventional mold of stories about people taking stock before ending their lives. ‘Next Exit’ Review: End of the Road 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Every heterodox work of art worth celebrating is attached to some fable that involves overcoming pushback, a paucity of faith, and many other unforeseen difficulties. As "Godfather" origin stories go, "The Offer" is so bad it's criminal 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Powers’s thoroughly modern fable of environmental mourning hardly needs to dredge up that cringeworthy antecedent. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z In the fable, Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are gobbled up by a wolf before a hunter comes to their rescue. Amanda Seyfried scared by "Red Riding Hood" 2011-03-10T23:55:31Z If the fable is unsurprising, it still adds dimension to Vivienne’s emotional state, saying things that even this graceful, articulate woman can’t quite put into words. Alzheimer’s gets a warm face in ‘Blackberry Winter’ by Forum Theatre 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z In the central section, a fable about a boy’s journey through the rain forest in pursuit of honey, the integration of live action and the projection of gorgeous line drawings is a delight. Review: Capturing Childhood’s Wonder in Dance and Mime 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Perô, or The Mysteries of the Night Family-friendly fable about a brokenhearted baker features puppets, actors and live music; for ages 7 and up. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 14-21: 'Past Time,' 'Pocatello' and more 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Both Kill List and A Field in England, his psychedelic fable set during the English civil war, transform cinema into a nightmare imbued with history and politics. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z I was drawn into the characters and quite moved, even though all the while I was aware it was a feel-good fable, a story that deals with pain but doesn't care to be that painful. What we talk about when we talk about "The Help" 2011-08-17T22:18:00Z Here, however, the result is an ungainly fable that reflects none of Mr. Ishiguro’s myriad and subtle gifts. Review: In ‘The Buried Giant,’ Ishiguro Revisits Memory and Denial 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z A much-beloved modern fable with a sardonic twist, “Groundhog Day” has the narrative makings of a successful musical comedy. With a heroic performance by its injured star, 'Groundhog Day' limps through opening night 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The impact of this sisterhood fable on viewers should be as warm and rapturous as Olaf the snowman’s dream of summer. Frozen: This Disney Princess Movie Is Thaw-some 2013-11-23T21:19:59Z It was a revisionist western, an ecological fable, a post-Vietnam political allegory — a tale of romance, valor and revenge with traces of Homer, James Fenimore Cooper and “Star Trek” in its DNA. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Not in this quirky, inventively shot Dutch fable, set during the recent financial crisis. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z That’s due in part to a quartet of actors embodying at all times the vibrant humanity of the fables. Review | The remarkable ‘Battlefield’ speaks softly, and profoundly 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Stravinsky’s score is much more than that: a barnyard fable told as a cantata, with the voices chanting or uttering in a style that Stravinsky developed further in his better-known work “Les Noces.” Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z The crackling, syncopated dialogue and the plot, full of reversals and double crosses, owe an obvious debt to David Mamet’s profane fables of deal-making machismo. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z Did Bartók intend his setting of a Romanian folk tale about men transforming into stags as a spiritual fable or as a purely musical tone poem? Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-02-11T18:04:52Z Androcles and the Lion Parson's Nose opens its season with George Bernard Shaw's retelling of the classic fable; for ages 12 and up. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 25-Nov. 1: Astrid Hadad and more 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z They were passed down through generations, mainly by women, and served as cautionary fables. Enchanted, I’m sure 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The theme perfectly suits Ms. McKay, as a fable about when questions of innocence carry the highest of stakes. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z The interplay of history and fiction has been a rich source of literary masterpieces, but here fable and history are often at sixes and sevens. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z McClenon also is a writer, and her Vega fable supposes a devastated Earth. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z They also teamed up for the more intimate storytelling of the stage adaptation of the rock 'n' roll fable "Once." Massive demand for 'Harry Potter' play tickets in London snags website 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z And Mr. Batra makes their story touching and credible, an urban fable of hope in the face of disappointment. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z Mr. Linney was one of many who adapted Dickens’s fable “A Christmas Carol” for the stage. Romulus Linney, Wide-Ranging Playwright, Dies at 80 2011-01-16T01:16:25Z The Pitchfork Disney Coeurage Theatre Company stages Philip Ridley’s dark fable about two agoraphobic twins; for mature audiences. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 25-Feb. 1: Kneehigh's 'Tristan & Yseult' and more 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Inspired by the wave of gruesome femicides in her home state of Veracruz, the author transposes the violence directed at women to the register of fable. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It is both a satire and, like the Irving version, an exotic fable in which magic plays a big part. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “La Luna” is the fable of a boy who joins his quarrelsome father and grandfather in a rowboat that they paddle into the middle of the sea. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z Five minutes into this slender yet vigorous blood-spattered fable, two enemy guards enter to drag our heroine to the chapel — and she brutally kills them. ‘The Princess’ Review: Holding His Heart in Her Hands 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z A master at juggling tones and mashing together genres, Bong turns this post-apocalyptic fable into a fun and profound examination of who we are, and how we might hope to survive together. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in May 2019, from "Snowpiercer" to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Who Ate All the Pies at Tristan Bates is described as a modern musical football fable, and comes from the team behind NHS, the Musical. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-06-11T15:48:00Z Accompanied by drumbeats and keyboard riffs, he spins out insults, sexual boasts and old-time fables, like the story of the signifying monkey. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z It seems likely that he used the fable of The Fixed Period to explore and relieve his own anxiety by turning it into speculative fiction. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z A true story in a nondocumentary film is something else: a fable, a moralized version of reality. Review: ‘The 33’ Recalls a Chilean Mine Disaster and the Men Who Endured It 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z This tale of the changeling Russian twins, told by Josh Weil in his captivating first novel, “The Great Glass Sea,” is a kind of sweeping historical fable. Modern Russian fable superbly drawn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z At heart, and especially in Nick Dear's pared-down script, it's an elemental fable: Victor Frankenstein makes a man in his own image, only to discover he has created a beast. Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein' should be monster hit 2011-02-24T14:36:34Z A grown-up novel may make all its points with action and emotion, but some underlying force of fable or allegory, of educational purpose, seems necessary to illuminate a permanent book for younger readers. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z I was to create an original fable, complete with talking animals and a moral. My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z The story he told was a loose-jointed personal biography, spanning more than half a century — a classic show business fable of an ambitious hopeful from the sticks who conquers the Big Apple. Review: ‘Tommy Tune, Tonight!’ Is the Musical Autobiography of a Showbiz Trouper 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z After we’d all written our fables, we took turns reading them—but we were only supposed to listen to one another’s pieces, not to comment on them. My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z A name such as Neverbend is, however, appropriate in a fable of this kind. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z It also implicitly reminds the viewer of what we're watching, which is a soft-scripted fable version of a topic dear to the series creator's heart. Remember, "Indian Matchmaking" is as much of a entertainment fable as all of romance reality 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z In Paul Miller/DJ Spooky’s update of the latter’s fable, the wolf emerges from a forest whose tree trunks resemble a product bar code. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z In third is Quentin Tarantino’s 1969 fable “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” which held strong with $20 million in its second weekend. ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ is No. 1 but trails ‘Fast & Furious’ pace 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z This is painting with the subversive edge of a contemporary fable, fresh from the imaginative depths of a wicked national treasure. At Tate Britain, Celebrating a Mischievous, Subversive Talent 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Winocour is not inclined to turn “Augustine” into a neatly moralized fable of a predator and his victim. Movie Review: ‘Augustine,’ by Alice Winocour, Featuring Soko 2013-05-16T21:08:34Z It is even more impressive that Enyedi, who wrote as well as directed, uses the possessive “my” to spin a fable regarding the origins of modern times — epitomized by the motion picture. Twin Girls, Born in Budapest, Navigate Modern Times 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z She’s your standard plucky, stainless teen who, as in the Grimm fable, escapes the Queen’s death sentence, plays house with seven dwarfs and seals her destiny with Prince Charming with a perfect, reviving kiss. Mirror Mirror: A Snow White That Wants to Be Funny, and Isn't 2012-03-29T19:53:17Z Lately, she's turned even more perverse by retelling children's fables with — no, no nudity — just an impishly clinical humor. Toronto Film Festival: 10 Films to Talk About 2010-09-19T13:55:00Z So if Ti Moune’s tragedy must end, like so many fables, in another miracle transformation, in our dark season, let it be a gorgeous one. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z His new novel, The Buried Giant, is his first in 10 years and is a fantasy fable set in the Dark Ages. Meet the Author: Kazuo Ishiguro 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z This version of the familiar Aesop’s fable — lushly illustrated and set in Africa’s Serengeti region — offers a unique, and memorable, concluding twist. Review | Terrific children’s books without words 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Now it has become the base of a pop culture fable meant to reach anyone who feels like an outsider, whether they care about fashion or not. The Superheroes From House of Slay Are Here to Stay 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Wiley is working in step with other contemporary artists who are puncturing the fables of the Civil War. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “The Social Network,” which opens commercially on Friday, is an up-to-the-minute Darwinian fable about the survival of the brainiest that rushes headlong on a tsunami of snapping verbiage. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z Canny authors enlist ancient fables of gods and heroes, of rival clans, gigantic battles, perilous quests and fearsome ordeals as a way of unlocking the crowd-pleasing genres of mystery, fantasy and historical romance. The latest craze among Indian readers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Set in an imagined world that suggests the late Middle Ages, the fable commences during a surge of imbalance between Earth's elements, between magic and the ordinary, life and death. 'Tales from Earthsea': Ebbs with narrative unclarity, flows with pleasing visuals 2010-08-12T20:24:00Z "Ivan," directed by Thea Sharrock from a screenplay by Mike White, achieves a balance between hard reality and Disney dream in a way that past wildlife and circus fables could not because it must. Disney's defiant, talking-gorilla movie offers kid-friendly lessons in civil disobedience 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Robert Connelly: Tim described the book as a fable for all ages, and I was looking for something cinematic that had a kind of poem about the ocean. "Take yourself to the ocean": "Blueback" star Radha Mitchell on how to care about the environment 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It was a fable of almost Kafkaesque intensity, a story in which all the hope in the universe dwindles down to a single flashlight beam and then goes out. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark": Voices in the basement 2011-08-24T20:25:00Z But perhaps Bieber should let the fable teach him a lesson: be careful with your retirement jokes, or people might not notice when you eventually mean it. Justin Bieber Says He’s Retiring — But Don’t Freak Out, Fans 2013-12-18T17:51:59Z The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable. | 'Tyrannosaur': ?Tyrannosaur? With Peter Mullan - Review 2011-11-17T22:48:28Z He misinterprets Aesop’s fable about generosity of spirit, and his perversion of this story of generosity and human righteousness is used against everyone. The making of a fascist: “You get into a sticky area if you try to psychoanalyze a fictional future despot” 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But her real story doesn’t conform all that well to the fable. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z “Hot Milk” isn’t the fable we asked for about the European financial crisis. The whimsical fable of Greece’s financial insolvency that you’ve been waiting for 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Instead, she mediates the personal through fable to convey the sense of a collective past. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z They believe they're protecting the sanctity of their favorite fables out of some obligation to themselves or their children. Racist attacks on a Black girl earning a supposedly "white" role isn't about canon but excellence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “In our day we see so much bullying in the schools that it’s good for children to revisit that fable,” Ms. Tsartolia said. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 3-9 2012-08-02T22:34:41Z What he found, in this touching fable, was his spiritual home. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z It was a kind of Everywoman’s fable: behind the imperfect physical shell, a gem of inner beauty resides. 2010-01-16T04:00:00Z With an unfailingly light touch, Millet delivers a wry fable about climate change, imbuing foundational myths with new meaning and, finally, hope. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Related Topics: fable II, fantasy rpgs, populist, top 10, video games Get this game Bring an end to a long and bitter war that threatens to bring a continent to ruin. Top 10 Fantasy RPG Video Games 2011-11-15T12:00:59Z In fact, its negotiations with fantasy, fable, song and allegory are so organic, continuous and unpredictable as to make any summary of its plot sound absurd; but absurdity is neither Morrison’s strategy nor purpose. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z I was creating a bit more of a fable that was playing with some old mythologies. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Kore-Eda has an emotionally direct style, a way of fusing naturalism and fable that recalls the neorealist magic of Vittorio De Sica. ‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s a quasi-religious fable about a man haunted by the past and facing a profound moral and existential crisis in the present, and it’s a dazzling display of virtuoso cinematic technique and showboat performances. “Birdman”: Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in a crackling showbiz satire 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This fable is filled with talking animals, and the champ is a foul-tempered pig named Herman. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The stories he tells are fable-like in the way fables lead a character through a treacherous situation toward light — a wolf slaughtered, an escape from an oven — with a moral emerging through the telling. For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “The Whispers” does not turn out to be the fable it at first seems, but Howard pulls off the trick of making Riley’s real quest even more heart-wrenching than the fantasy that drives it. When the Grown-Ups Stumble, These Kids Take Matters Into Their Own Hands 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It's a prime Brad Pitt movie -- arguably the prime Brad Pitt movie -- and an American fable about a battered but lovable divorced dad who defies conventional wisdom and beats the odds. "Moneyball": Brad Pitt's wonk-friendly Oscar contender 2011-09-23T00:01:00Z Indeed, to the informed reader, “Mary Poppins” is a modernized collection of ancient fables and teaching stories. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z This sub-genre, known derisively as spaghetti westerns, more or less ended in 1978 with China 9, Liberty 37, a Spanish-Italian production that can be seen as a fable about moviemaking itself. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z And Blancanieves, a black-and-white, silent Spanish reworking of the Snow White fable, cadged a Grimm $25,100 at four theaters. G.I. Joe: Resurrection 2013-03-31T20:25:26Z Set in remote Kyrgyzstan, there's local flavour and gentle comedy to this fable of a Robin Hood-like technician with eco values. This week's new films 2011-07-29T23:09:29Z The Emperor's New Clothes Family-friendly interactive musical based on the classic fable. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 4-11: 'The Addams Family' and more 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z For, even as the Beginner Books publications proliferated, Geisel continued to produce these “big books,” as he called them, a number of which have cemented their status as classic fables for the modern age. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Because, even more than a ballet, “The Golden Cockerel” is a colorful fable told through music and danced mime. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s just an excuse on which to hang two trite overbearing fables and one amusing one. Review: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ and a Trippy Time Machine 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Baker escapes from Christian hang-ups about sex by reviving the guiltless revelry of classical fable. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z It is a serious moral fable about the foreseen and unforeseen consequences of the choices we make.” ‘Dune’ receives the royal treatment on its 50th anniversary 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z When Mary Laws set out to create “Monsterland,” her new socially conscious horror anthology series on Hulu, she drew inspiration from the concise, unnerving fables of the British playwright Caryl Churchill. Little Bursts of Fright: The Horror Anthology Is Having a Heyday 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “It feels like a reawakening,” she says of the fable of “Dave.” Can ‘Dave,’ a feel-good musical about a humane president, make Washington feel better? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z An environmental fable, the lushly animated movie — A. O. Scott of The New York Times compared the delicacy of Mr. Miyazaki’s landscapes to that of Monet or Turner — also centers on a young man, Ashitaka. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z A fable, similarly, trades complexity and comprehensiveness for a clear but still true lesson. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z A perverse psychological fable of unchecked ego and unhinged desire. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s a fable about refugees and immigrant discrimination written to reflect the crises and cruelties of our times. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z When David Grossman’s novel “Falling Out of Time,” about parents grieving for dead children, came out in 2014, some reviewers suggested that the poetic fable read like a play. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Unlike Lu Xun, whose work pointed to structural shortcomings in Chinese society, Yan doesn’t suggest any solutions in his disillusioned fables. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The title track is a 13th-century treatment of a Greek fable, with bursts of The Oak and The Ash added in. Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party: Orfeo – review 2012-05-31T21:15:01Z This week: An election-year tale at Skylight Theatre, two edgy fables at Rogue Machine, and the return of Independent Shakespeare Co.’s annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. L.A. theater openings, June 26-July 3: 'Richard III' and more 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Maybe it will be more effective if the story is a surreal fable, only half-told. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Wood’s “White Girl” is closer to urban social realism mixed with a cautionary drug-abuse fable. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s a Hollywood fable by any other name, and it couldn’t be more timely. Jessica Chastain: ‘It’s about dividing women and I’m not going to be a part of that’ 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Based on a 1953 fable by Jean Giono, Back’s beautifully impressionistic drawings make a simple argument for environmental renewal and individual agency. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Yet, for all the show’s seriousness, there is something almost silly about seeing Perrotta’s fable brought to visual life. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z A journalist, she is the hero of what becomes a thriller; the book is also a post-postmodern mash-up of fable, satire and dystopian fiction. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z So Aesop says he was confronted by a lion who asked him to tell a fable ... and so on; and eventually the lion gets bored and goes away. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z With its stinging satirical precision and looming awareness of risk and loss, “Fabulation” is never just a fable. Review | Lynn Nottage’s comic ‘Fabulation’ maps a slide down the social ladder 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Its rendering of a quintessentially American tale of race, sex, religion and money teeters between glib revisionism and zombie mythology, unsure if it wants to be a lavish pop fable or a tragic melodrama. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z A fable about money, commitment and the difficulty of behaving decently in a world defined by Darwinian competition and consumerist distraction, the film is simple, suspenseful and shattering. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a little fable,” he wrote, “particularly relevant now, when almost overnight, people are becoming art celebrities.” Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history" 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The film is really a movie within a movie, in which the author’s delicate, fanciful story is folded into a harsh modernist fable about depersonalization and conformity in the contemporary workplace. Movie Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “It has gravity and grace; it’s as inexorable as a fable; it drills down into the things that make a life.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Made in editions of 12, the geometric drawings depicted on the throws recall regional fables, like “Le tigre fumant la pipe,” which is a linguistic transmutation of the Korean saying for “Once upon a time.” A Fashion Guide to Miami Art Week 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Johnson’s first story, portraying the partitioning and exploitation of Alaskan land as an attack by a monster, is fine as fable. Dance Review: Emily Johnson’s ‘Niicugni,’ at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2013-01-11T23:42:09Z A Christmas Carol A miser has a change of heart in Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday fable. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 20-27: 'Mamma Mia' and more 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z What follows is a fantastical fable of love and suffering, imprisonment and release, mythology and the material world. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It becomes striking that Shakespeare's last play was The Tempest, a fable of art and power set on a "primitive" island. Is Shakespeare Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? 2012-08-28T12:54:58Z And as in many fables, his protagonists are usually children. For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The new running time will push Tarantino’s 1969 Los Angeles fable to nearly three hours. ‘Once Upon a Time’ to be reissued with new scenes 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It's an ambition not realized in Laurents' unwieldy book, a bizarre fable about a destitute town looking for financial salvation and a bogus miracle it hopes will bring in the dough. 'Anyone Can Whistle' displays an unwieldy ambition 2010-04-09T21:18:00Z Above, the crimson star glowed, gold-tipped spires spiking the sky, and when the bells began it was as if we’d stumbled into a fable. Haunted by the perfect kiss: It should have been her, and then it was 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z As for why this works, it’s in the nature of the fable, in which recognizable figures traverse elusive but also recognizable worlds. In 'Dinner at the Center of the Earth,' Nathan Englander deepens and expands what he does so well 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z While attempting to create a kind of fable about the lingering effects of maternal neglect and racial self-hatred, Morrison ends up instead with characters who keep phasing between skimpy realism and overwrought fantasy. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s a thoroughly charming fable with at least some scientific grounding in brain research and our partial understanding of how personality is formed, set both inside and outside the brain of an 11-year-old girl. “Inside Out”: Pixar’s sad and sweet new adventure explores the mind of an 11-year-old girl 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z His adventures are a blithe, surreal fable, a riff on themes Mr. Allen pursued with more aggression in “Celebrity.” Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z He is right to address the “fable” of the AK-47. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z The Moon, the Sun & the Empty Space Little Tree Theatre and ClownMa dell’Arte explore the human experience in fables told through movement, puppetry, mask and shadow. L.A. theater openings, March 1-8: 'Circles' and more 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z His fables explore the foibles of human nature. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The 1918 theatrical work is a fable about a soldier who trades his violin — his soul — to the devil for wealth, only to realize the true happiness he’s given away. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z This story takes its inspiration from "25 August 1983", a late fable by Jorge Luis Borges, who back in 1936 wrote a perceptive review of The 39 Steps. Psycho; Double Take | Film review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Meditation on the movement is thwarted again at the end, when Ms. Michelson’s voice, which has gone quiet, returns to opine about faith amid a ridiculous fable about God’s other child, Marjorie. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson?s ?Devotion Study #1? at Whitney Museum 2012-03-07T00:05:18Z This week: A Tennessee Williams classic, a historical drama about the Civil War, and a new fact-based musical fable about a public-health scandal in Japan. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 28-March 6: 'Blood,' 'Summer and Smoke' and more 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Some of these portraits are based on Islamic fables, but there are other stories embedded within them, as the images pose questions about colonialism, exoticism, gender, religion, politics and more. | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z Likewise, the film includes Aesop’s fable of the lion and the mouse, Can you discuss these themes in the story? The making of a fascist: “You get into a sticky area if you try to psychoanalyze a fictional future despot” 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z So it’s perhaps to be expected that his latest effort, “The Spy,” should bridge the gap between reality and fable by making a heroine of Mata Hari, who straddles both realms. Paulo Coelho’s ‘Spy’ uncovers the life of Mata Hari 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Rey’s presence situates “The Rover” awkwardly between fable and buddy picture. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Photograph: Samir Hussein/Getty Images Twilight star will be returning to the lead role in a sequel to this year's fantasy fable Snow White and the Huntsman, reports Radar. Kristen Stewart takes a bite of Snow White sequel 2012-11-20T13:56:05Z “When Marnie Was There,” a wistful, lovely and faintly sinister fable about a lonely tomboy and her spectral new friend, may well be the final animated film produced by Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli. “When Marnie Was There”: Tomboy meets ghost in this wistful seaside tale that might be Studio Ghibli’s last 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z No sly asides, no double entendres and nary a hint of modern-day gender politics dilute this poetically, if not prophetically, imagined storybook fable. In 'Cinderella,' goodness and fairy tale innocence rule 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z She’s drawn to what’s most unsettling about these fables: their disorienting logic, their blithe cruelty, their subtle encoding of race and gender. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Either they went to a traditional pantomime or to one of Stuart Paterson's Christmas shows: big-hearted fables that preferred psychological realism to slapstick and narrative complexity to stock plots. The Snow Queen ? review 2010-12-07T23:30:00Z Recasting male-centered fables is not the show’s only impetus, but it does drive some of the most forceful entries. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z And the story is a simple and appealing fable of indomitability and father-daughter companionship. Review: In ‘The Eagle Huntress,’ a Girl From Kazakhstan Soars 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z While he wrote fiction, essays, journalism, travelogues, short stories and satire, he never published fiction for very young children, apart from his translation of a German fable. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The festival's focus also appears to be shifting westwards, with several works from Central Asian and Iranian filmmakers figuring prominently on the agenda, including "Cut," a Japan-set crime fable from exiled Iranian director Amir Naderi. Korea's Busan stakes claim as Asian film hub 2011-10-08T16:02:04Z Even the animation winner, "How to Train Your Dragon 2," was a children's fable about tolerance and accepting differences. Golden Globes 2015: Sweet wins for audacious filmaking 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z That ornateness is perfectly suited to “Once on This Island,” a fable of love and death and temperamental gods set in the French Antilles. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play Stage show inspired by Frank Capra’s beloved 1946 holiday fable. 40 family-friendly 'Nutcrackers,' 'Christmas Carols' and other SoCal holiday shows 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Amid all this were the writers, one of whom was Deborah Levy – not yet, but soon to be, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for her strange and subversive fable Swimming Home. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z The inert process, Didion wrote in the foreword to a compendium of her political essays aptly called "Political Fictions," "proceeded from a series of fables about American experience." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z That huge mosaic piles up dozens of seemingly contradictory symbols from Christian legend, Greek myth, Scandinavian folklore, Persian fable and more. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The young woman loses her parents and is tormented by a wicked stepmother–a phrase that in these fables is virtually a redundancy–until she meets her Prince Charming. A Cinderella for Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A very bold and deliberately outrageous fable, then, rehearsing Pullman's familiar and passionate fury at corrupt religious systems of control – but also introducing something quite different, a voice of genuine spiritual authority. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z "The Living Wake" is an oddly alluring, micro-budget fable about the quest for a literary legacy and the romanticized notion of death as an antidote for a misconstrued life. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z Despite being made back in 1995, this is still irresistibly cute: a modern nursery fable about a baby pig who conquers the world of competitive sheep-herding. All together now: five of the best kids' films that adults can enjoy 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Like all horror movies, this is a grossly exaggerated fable, one that arrives by way of its impressive cinematography and interpolated tales at a startling, violent, tragic and inevitable conclusion. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z The fourth artist, Andrew Hladky, burrows deeply into fable, inspired by a dystopian novel. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The relentless positivity of this fable is put across with such bounce-house energy that children in the audience may be bludgeoned into submission instantly. ‘UglyDolls’ Review: Stay Ugly, Friends 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z There's no film sequence at the midpoint of the second act, but a scene and costume change in full view of the audience, as if emphasising the artificiality of the whole savage fable. Lulu – review 2013-02-10T17:30:27Z “The Treasure” is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania’s precarious place at the margins of the European Union. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z His fables — “A Cure for Suicide,” “Silence Once Begun” — are wishbone-lean, distilled to their essences. A Widower and His Son Find Kindness and Cruelty on the Road in ‘Census’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z His stories are fables about human progress—concretely imagined but abstract, even parable-like, in their sweep. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The show features a Native American ensemble that performs indigenous songs and dances to illuminate fables from Native American lore. New Victory Theater Season Will Bring Circus Acts and Songs 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Some of these stories verge on the surreal or look forward to fables by Borges or Calvino. Forget ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ A more creative book-gift for a new graduate. 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "The Help" is a condescending fable for white liberals, or at least a story that congratulates white viewers "for not being horrible racists." What we talk about when we talk about "The Help" 2011-08-17T22:18:00Z Even if Troy's rise is implausibly rapid, Williams skilfully uses the ring to create a fable about race and money. Sucker Punch 2010-06-20T21:46:00Z The fable sounds familiar enough to be believably prehistoric, even if parts jibe suspiciously with contemporary sensibilities. Dance Review: ‘The Legend of Yauna’ Puts Its Hero Through Trials 2014-02-23T23:04:25Z “Jar of Fools” was both of the ’90s and timeless, a slim fable of magicians on the lam in Seattle. A Long Visit to Weimar-Era Berlin Through an Epic Graphic Novel 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet Sinclair's fable remains unsubstantiated while his lengthy rap sheet, including multiple charges for larceny and forgery, is very real and easy to track down, as Politico did in 2008. People say Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson's love of conspiracy theories is desperate – and dangerous 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z The women in these fables cope with discrimination, loneliness and abandonment, among other things. Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z “La La Land” succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Painting after painting makes reference to the fable of the Peach Blossom Spring, in which two fishermen accidentally wander into a hidden Eden where life is perfect, and the perfection never ends. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z The rest of its self-titled debut is an earthier set of fables about lost loves and frustrating careers, anchored in feathery guitars that turn torrid in a flash. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T22:54:15Z In the divisive age of the 1 percent against the other 99, this cautionary fable unravels the tyrannical hypocrisy of the haves and the embittered outrage of the have-nots. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But in telling the story of Sherie, Ms. Scott embellishes, overstates, understates, bends and weaves the complexities and inconsistencies of one life into the whole-making harmonies of a musical fable. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z Mbue’s sweeping fable, charting the struggle between a fictional African village and an American oil company, was one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z It is a Beauty and the Beast fable where both get to be beautiful and neither has to be beastly. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z This animated fable also features a cast that would do any live-action film proud, a visual style noticeably different from that of other children’s fare, and a story filled with genuine sweetness and mystery. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: 'The Last Unicorn' 2011-02-04T17:36:05Z Branagh's fable carries a moral about refusing to follow the flock, though it may seem a statement of the bleating obvious. 24:7 theatre festival 2010-07-27T14:28:00Z Salman Rushdie adapts and narrates his epic Indian novel, but that balance between magical fable and socio-political history proves harder to strike on screen. This week's new films 2012-12-29T00:05:51Z In Sussex, she converted an old coal-house into a study, where she worked on her drawing and produced, in 1988, the illustrated fable of a mole called Henry. Joy Parker 2012-11-30T14:26:32Z But is the fable also perhaps about two citizens trying to outdo one another? Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s a fable about the way sinister elements can creep into life in surprising ways. In ‘Borgman,’ a Surreal Touch of Evil 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z And what of the Bond Girl Curse, that career-killing stigma revered in legend and fable? Rosamund Pike: 'I seek adventure all the time' 2011-01-20T22:59:01Z The movie exists almost entirely within the tension between fantasy and reality, a fable on domesticity. Romance and domesticity bound together in 'The Duke of Burgundy' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Complicité’s decision to foreground these freewheeling digressions is to be commended: This is not a conventional whodunit but, rather, a kind of fable. Review: In This Eco-Thriller, the Animals May Be Having Their Revenge 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Brought up on local folk fables about sea monsters that eat people, the disturbed youngster believes this was the fate of his brother. Debut directors seek Cannes success 2013-05-19T16:15:08Z It is a fable through which Philip Pullman reflects on Jesus, on the tensions and contradictions of organised religion – and indeed on the nature of storytelling. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z A western fable with an often dreamlike vibe, "Slow West" proves to be a surprisingly sly tale of passion, greed and survival. 'Slow West,' with Michael Fassbender, a surprisingly sly western 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The story and title derive from one of Jean de La Fontaine’s 17th-century fables. Review: ‘The Two Pigeons,’ Frederick Ashton’s Look at Love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z There was the mesmerizing wordless vocal melody that ushered in the tragic "Little Birds," which at times suggested a very dark children's tale or fable. Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum returns with his songs and their durability intact 2012-02-08T06:00:00Z The eight fables in Machado’s book all depict women on the verge. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Wes Anderson fable set in a dystopian Japan many years in the future, when all dogs have been banished to an offshore island. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Few of these kings and queens are embroidered into fables focusing on the star-crossed nature of their love, ignoring actual matters of governance whose effects impact reality even now. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Guards at the Taj Rajiv Joseph's darkly comic fable about two men tasked with keeping watch over India's newly constructed Taj Mahal. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 7-14: Bernadette Peters and more 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Some might have been blissfully unaware until reading this that the slim, 350-page fable they remember fondly from childhood is being rendered into two epic movies. Will Peter Jackson's third Hobbit film bring us crashing to Middle Earth? 2012-07-26T14:49:12Z “The Fabelmans” is, as the title says, somewhat of a fable and wonderful in both large and small ways, even if Spielberg can’t help but soften the rougher, potentially lacerating edges. ‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Blood Despite Kinship “Aurangzeb,” Atul Sabharwal’s dark fable about corruption and family ties, begins with a quote from Horace: “Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast, the father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.” Movie Review: ‘Aurangzeb,’ Directed by Atul Sabharwal 2013-05-19T21:55:53Z The choreography is strongest when the two women are moving together like the fish, bears and foxes in the show’s fables. Dance Review: Emily Johnson’s ‘Niicugni,’ at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2013-01-11T23:42:09Z The prospect is chilling for an opera based on the duke of fable who murdered his wives and stashed their bodies in his castle basement. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z “Gold” could have been a biting satire of greed and folly, a neo-Conradian tale of Western misadventure in Asia, a rousing fable of underdog triumph or a caper comedy. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Some classic children’s fables painted life as a Museum of Surrealist Art, a dreamscape for the underage protagonist to wander through. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z In this simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wore the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time. The Movies' Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Maybe it's one of those disarming Communist-era fables about a family dealing with father's long absence "on business." "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1": Harry Potter goes dark 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z Mr. Barnes’s view of Shostakovich conforms in every detail to the sentimental Cold War fable of a passive, pathetic yet saintly figure buffeted by an obtuse, implacable force. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Fashion isn’t fickle; fashion simply puts an inordinate amount of stock in fables. Perspective | Virgil Abloh made a lot of noise when he began his Off-White womenswear. Things have gotten much quieter. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z With its angelic theme, “Idiots and Angels” risks turning into a pat fable of redemption and salvation that exalts the good side of humanity that refuses to be squelched. | 'Idiots and Angels': Misanthrope Sprouts Wings and Humanity 2010-10-05T22:32:00Z He is a maker of feverish fables, of spectacles that aim for the logic-defying intensity of pop ballads. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z They are fables of innocence, but also of terror, dense with superstition and sexual anxiety. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z It is a brilliant, 400-page postcolonial fable charting the downfall of one tyrant — whose counterpart here is an elderly horse — and the rise of a new one. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Based on a 16th-century Chinese novel, “Monkey” relates a fable that is widely known in Asian cultures, drawn loosely from the historic pilgrimage of a priest from China to India in search of Buddhist sutras. Theater Review: ‘Monkey’ Is a Break From Usual Lincoln Center Festival Fare 2013-07-10T02:01:08Z Anne Hathaway falls for one of those sensitive and scruffy guys with a guitar in the 2015 indie fable "Song One." TV This Week, June 21-27: 'True Detective' and more 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z This is a fable of empowerment that is aware of real obstacles and limitations. Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But if there is something primal and archaic in Mr. O’Connor’s fable of fathers and sons, he nonetheless grounds it in the painful realities of contemporary America. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z Only at the very end, with thrilling subtlety and impressive clarity, does a fable blossom from the satirical earth. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z And at this point I felt the novel move from picaresque to fable; suddenly it's not possible to separate this family drama from our own, or that of a much wider world. 'Imperfect Birds': Anne Lamott's novel of flirting with addiction 2010-04-07T22:27:00Z Its minimal production values, and matching ticket prices, suited a tale that was, at heart, a lighthearted fable about the “half-blood” son of the sea god Poseidon and a mortal woman. Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z And the agreeable messages about the joys of music and of camaraderie had to be wrested from a fable that seemed more convoluted, in this retelling, than need be. Theater review: In new SCT musical, it's 'Brementown' or bust! 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z Regardless of the delivery system, the “doomed career woman” narrative is as perennial as any Disney fable, the theme repackaged and resold to each generation. Feminism isn’t ruining your love life 2014-01-08T00:00:00Z Trained as an art therapist, Cleveland is drawn to fables of duality and rebirth. Review | In the galleries: Erika Cleveland’s ‘Healing Dolls’ are playful in their duality 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Every zombie fable boils down to insatiable hunger, both as it pertains to the undead and the forms it takes among the living. "Army of the Dead" is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Pausing frequently for effect, he spoke about constructing fables, discerning between the abstract and the concrete, and “kicking the tires of aphoristic writing.” My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Teasing and shrewd, “Rabbit à la Berlin” is a floppy-eared fable about the uneasy trade-offs between liberty and security. | 'Rabbit ? la Berlin': Out of Paradise and Into the Pot: A Post-Communism Parable 2010-12-07T23:02:00Z Similarly, Nicholas Christopher builds a surrealist fable, touched with a trace of Latin American magic realism, out of “Rooms by the Sea,” a haunting late masterpiece. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Many of Coetzee’s recent novels have the stripped-down quality of philosophical fable. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But thirty-six years have passed since “The Longest Day”; The Vietnam War has intervened, and it turns out that the long fable in between the opening and closing scenes makes one uneasy. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The bulk of the exhibition consists of charming illustrations from the title fable about a girl who lives in an enchanted forest. Review | In the galleries: Probing our relationships with living systems 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The simple fable of the Lorax and the Once-ler is wrapped in gaudy, familiar business and festooned with grim, forced cheer. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z What follows is a fable imagining the birth of an art monster. In Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” Reboot, the Plot Is Often Less Brilliant Than the Premise 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Most were fables passed down through generations, like the one about a tiger who prowls villages at night to devour children, and other thinly veiled morality tales. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Almost 50 years later, the fable about vacuous, ephemeral celebrity remains tartly relevant. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z It’s a fable of what somebody heard Christianity was supposed to be — cute. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z One of Stone’s objectives, as always, is to deconstruct the causes and consequences of American foreign policy, and the often ludicrous fables we tell ourselves to justify it. Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z It is a fable that appeals to our love of social advancement, a new life, fresh experience. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Norris wrote his sprawling comic fable half a dozen years earlier, before few predicted that Donald J. Trump would one day occupy the White House. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z What follows this fable are 500 or so pages in which Justus bites not only his mother’s ear but those of six siblings. Stephen King on Paul Theroux’s Portrait of a Truly Horrible Mother 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Still, his inventiveness — including riffing on classic and religious fables — shows no sign of waning. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Tom Hadaway's fable about a lost porpoise trapped in fishermen's nets seems to signify the resilience of the region. Tyne – review 2013-07-03T11:45:01Z It is a lovely magic-realist fable set among an exploited peasant community who appear to be living in the 19th century – yet this is misleading. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z While the computer-animated pumpkin carriage lacks the magic of the genuine article, the additional attempts to update or otherwise modernize do little to disrupt the bedtime fable atmosphere viewers can still feel nostalgic about. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s a Gothic setup, a clutch of damaged individuals stuck in an isolated ruin, and Johnson’s bold and impressionistic writing locates the story on the boundary between fable and horror. ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z That she falls in love with the beast she tames is also the stuff of fable. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z It's a series of fantastical fables, showing the influence of Kafka, Swift and Johnson's Rasselas. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z “Golem,” a visually dazzling, mind-pinching production from the British company 1927, slyly poses these questions, through a fable that feels both contemporary and ageless, combining live performance and music with sophisticated stop-motion and traditional animation. Review: ‘Golem,’ a Visually Dazzling Fable for the Digital Age 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Through eight fables, Ms Tett argues that internal divisions and classifications, say, between doctors and surgeons, hold back creative thinking and encourage turf wars. Blighting the horizon 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But if those earlier novels sometimes felt like auditing a graduate course in neurology, “Bewilderment” holds forth in a shadowy forest of fables. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z This one’s a quiet Irish fable with a whiff of magic. ‘Outbreak’ Was a Hit in 1995. Now We’re Living the Sequel. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Short fables are sprinkled among the chapters, and the author makes use of pastiche, footnotes and other moves from the postmodern playbook. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Even better is Higgs Boson Blues, a mordantly witty picaresque fable that runs the lyrical gamut from Lucifer to Robert Johnson and Hannah Montana. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – review 2013-02-11T12:19:50Z That may be a relief for the Decemberists, who mustered elaborately dressed guests and wore suits to perform their 2009 album, “The Hazards of Love,” as a full-length fable. Music Review: For Decemberists, a Time to Shift Gears 2011-01-25T23:06:16Z Existing outside of time and place, “The Other Lamb” is a gorgeous revenge fable with an excess of atmosphere and zero subtlety — a mallet wrapped in gauze and girlish laughter. ‘The Other Lamb’ Review: Flock Therapy 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The quest for a rebel pasha’s severed head serves as a darkly satirical symbol in this sly Albanian novel originally published in 1978, an allegorical fable about 20th-century authoritarianism. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The novel has the immersive imaginative power of fable; it also deepens Moore’s career-long investigation into the kind of collapsed rationality that borders on genius and might, very easily, be misdiagnosed as madness. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z That aside, there is a burning logic to this production which becomes a fable about the toxic nature of a ruthlessly commercialised world. Timon of Athens - Review 2012-07-18T00:23:36Z Some were inspired by the abduction of babies by Argentina’s military junta during the 1976-1983 “Dirty War,” but their theme is as universal — and as ominous — as any Brothers Grimm fable. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the many perspectives of terricide 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z And, where popular titles of the past tended to depict Indian gods, fables, and folklore, today’s artists are interested in exploring the experience and contradictions of living in India now. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z We can but hope that this masterly Gothic prequel will banish forever the Currier and Ives version of Dickens’s dark fable. Taking Dickens to the Dark Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Everyone loves a good comeback story, but his practically mirrors a fable of divine intervention. Robert Downey Jr. hasn’t just made it all the way back, he’s made it all the way to the top Propaganda needs only a little encouragement from the facts: did Margaret Roberts hope that her awkward encounter with the brickies would produce a stilted fable about her party's mission to rebuild Britain? The big picture: Conservative candidate Margaret Roberts campaigns in Dartford 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z “People may see it as a funny little fable, but I hope it’s more than that,” Horn said. ‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z That chapter reads like one of the animal fables from the ancient Indian epic “The Panchatantra,” set in a modern era. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It's a city of fable or dream, as recounted by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z Filtering it through this fable — here's a dark and stormy night and he drives a woman home, and he is self-professed "a good guy," and makes claims, "Oh, should I even come in?" Neil LaBute talks "House of Darkness," his modern take on "Dracula" that flips the power dynamic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Since the end of Californication, he’s found time to publish a book – a talking animal fable called Holy Cow – and write another one. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Critical response “A surreal fable” showing “colossal” imagination but dissolving “into a welter of confusing language and imagery.” My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Our guide pointed to a book of German fables on a table, and explained that President Theodore Roosevelt, an excellent reader of German, sometimes read to his children from that very volume. Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island estate speaks volumes — literally — about his character 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But this is a music-theater fable wrought with imagination and brio. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z Inspired by the haunting “The St. James Infirmary Blues,” the one-act fable conjures an enemy prison camp where several soldiers await execution. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z “They kind of reflect what the Bouffes has done over the years, bringing casts from all over the world to present these fables of humanity,” Mr. Linehan said. Edinburgh International Festival Embraces Youth at 71 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Twelfth Night Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles’ staging of the Bard’s comedic fable sets the action in the aftermath of the “Great Los Angeles Air Raid” of 1942. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Even the Oxford dictionary defines an old wife's fable, story or tale as "a foolish story, such as is told by garrulous old women". Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z The Suitcase The Echo Theater Company presents the U.S. premiere of Polish playwright Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk’s surrealistic fable, performed in English, about a father, his son and the Holocaust. L.A. theater openings, July 31-Aug. 7: 'The Tempest' and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Listen to Aesop’s fable “The Crow and the Pitcher”: wapo.st/aesop_crow. Crows are often thought of as scavengers. But they are also smart and playful. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Gifted French comic Jean Dujardin claimed the best actor award for his role in the festival's most critically adored film, "The Actor," a riveting fable about a silent film star struggling to transition to talkies. US director Malick sidesteps Cannes fest spotlight 2011-05-23T11:13:09Z To close out this dark fable of childhood, we don't need another hero. How to fix "Stranger Things" for its fifth and final season 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s a lot like Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare, he said. Trees and flowers sprout leaves at different times in the spring. Why is that? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Walser is a revelatory writer in that, like a fable, his work obeys dream logic. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play Theatre Unleashed remounts this stage show inspired by Frank Capra’s beloved 1946 holiday fable; in repertory with “A Very Die Hard Christmas.” L.A. theater openings, Nov. 27-Dec. 4: 'La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin’ and more 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But it is difficult, really, to connect this fable to the world it pretends to represent. | 'The Ides of March': ?The Ides of March,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-10-06T12:00:00Z Golding’s fable began to take on a more complicated meaning for me. Their Inner Beasts: ‘Lord of the Flies’ Six Decades Later 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “The fable is a fascinating form because it’s a story that wears its metaphor on its sleeve,” Mr. Kaufman said. Director?s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat 2010-09-30T21:18:00Z This is a feminist fable as well as a meaningful history. Review | Ten books to read in March 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z A prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works ranging from “The Lion and the Mouse” to “The Sunday Outing.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In a review of a 1988 production, The New York Times described it as “a bittersweet Christmas fable for our times.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Despite the hazards of translation, this ticklish, deceptively slim treat of a novel is suffused with the timelessness of a fable. In Daniel Sada's ticklish 'One Out of Two,' twins raise questions about self and identity 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z Basically, we decided to incorporate as many sort of quotes, fables, and parables because we liked the idea that this young man uses language as a weapon. The making of a fascist: “You get into a sticky area if you try to psychoanalyze a fictional future despot” 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z This is not realism, exactly, but something just a bit more heightened, in which naturalism blurs into fable, and the boundaries between reality and dream fade away. In Amy Bloom's 'Lucky Us,' sisters remain plucky in face of tragedy 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The children, ghostly and precocious, are not especially childlike, and the series resists sentimentalizing their innocence, giving the sense that we are imbibing some kind of stark fable. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Those rogue tweets marked the opening lines of a new Washington fable: The Ballad of Walter Shaub. How the U.S. ethics chief took on Trump and became a reluctant Washington hero 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z On one level it is a pure Hitchcockian fable in which a minor transgression leads to cosmic punishment. DVDs: Jim Carrey as the Id Unleashed a Bit Before Its Time 2011-02-25T20:14:20Z Barbara Mones' Seattle fable "Catch and Release" is a cute, animated story set at the Pike Place Market, with a Chaplinesque fish thrower who tries a little too hard to impress a flower vendor. Bumbershoot picks: 1 Reel Film Festival 2012-08-30T19:14:04Z A gentle and beguiling picture book with a spirited child heroine at its heart, it’s a fable for our troubled times. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Often middles, too, his stories pushing you along with the intangible dread of a fable, pulling you forward with the inexorable logic of a mathematical proof. Short Stories From Joe Hill, Spiked With Mayhem and Evil 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z This, in part, is why the fables are dedicated to a six-year-old. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z And I thought of La Fontaine’s fables, which Malroux and I love. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Wilson would continue his racist fables about Michael Brown with, “”When I look up after that, I see him start to run and I see a cloud of dust behind him.” A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Sacred texts and well-known fables invoke shared experience, but some of the most striking entries depict isolation and division. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The film, a dreamy fable with a dark undercurrent, tells the story of an abandoned young girl who was raised at a zoo. Film: At Berlinale, Something for Everyone 2012-02-17T17:13:20Z Lam turns the ghost story into a fable involving twins and characters from Chinese mythology, who swim through a murky ocean to the sounds of rhyming narration and haunting music. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Consisting of two parts — one a gentle fable and the other a celebration of its medium’s transformative powers — this American premiere exemplifies the Puppet Fringe’s less spooky side. The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Inflating the fable to big screen and rock-show levels propelled it to the level of “Event.” Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Shahrazad keeps herself from death by tantalising a king with cliffhanger fables; the stories she tells go on to have their own life: they spawn and swarm. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z The festival’s biggest failure is “A Welcome Guest: A Psychotic Fairy Tale,” a flabby dystopian fable about hospitality gone wrong in post-apocalyptic America. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Depending on whom you ask, “The Wolf of Wall Street” is either a cautionary tale or a gleeful fable. The Carpetbagger: The Many Lessons ‘Wolf’ Teaches Us 2013-12-31T15:59:08Z Borrowing elements of fable, it’s told with a recurring sense of awe by a boy for whom the world, for most of his life, has existed only in stories. A Jailed Indian Boy Chases His Scrap of Sky 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Creating fables both buoyant and grave, Rohmer had a movie personality hard to describe and harder to forget. 2010-01-12T04:00:00Z The film, a fable set in rural Poland, focuses on a young man who is seriously injured after an accident on the construction site of the world’s largest Jesus statue. Top Berlin Film Festival Prize Goes to ‘Touch Me Not’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z But, as in the fable, the grasshopper actually does OK because when it gets to October he just drops his or her standards and “cuffs” anyone who lives close by. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z But animal archetypes are not arbitrary; fables can become ludicrous if they mismatch temperament and creature. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z The impulse to look to stage plagues is understandable: Finding a fictional sibling to real calamity gives ours the hue of a fable, with a clear meaning and villain, and thus means to a cure. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The modern-day fable stars Wyatt Russell as Dud, a sunny former surfer in Long Beach, Calif., whose mojo tanked after a snake bit him in Nicaragua and his father vanished into the Pacific. The Week in Arts: Tom Hiddleston in ‘Betrayal’; Beck Takes the Stage in Queens 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z If you’ve read “The Razor’s Edge,” you’re likely to be familiar with the cross-country starts and stops that make up ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac, and SIDDHARTHA, Hermann Hesse’s spiritual fable. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Still, “Picture” stands alone, an operatic fable about the pursuit of happiness. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z This is a delightful children’s fable in the form of a humorous news story. In These Stunning Picture Books, Children Navigate a Big, Wide World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play Theatre Unleashed presents this stage show inspired by Frank Capra’s beloved 1946 holiday fable. 40 family-friendly 'Nutcrackers,' 'Christmas Carols' and other SoCal holiday shows 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Pitched as a fable, his crossover novel is set in a city split in two by a vast wall. William Sutcliffe: 'It was so much more brutal than I thought it could be' 2013-04-02T07:00:01Z This extraordinary fable shows the depths of the human confusion that the creature faces. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z He excels, as in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” still perhaps our greatest fable, when most connected to the demotic and the vernacular and to the painful truths of human existence. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z He wants to juxtapose the schoolgirls’ life stories and the “Cinderella” fable. Janusz Glowacki, Polish Playwright of Terror and Dark Humor, Dies at 78 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z A gripping murder story and incandescent moral fable, set in hardscrabble Eastern Washington during the Great Depression. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z It was the only Broadway musical comedy in memory to be based on a classic fable by the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire. Theater preview: The fall and rise of 'Candide' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z It’s told through a series of fables to a Sunday school class. Six Highlights From the Black Film Archive 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “A Star Is Born” always unsettles us with its blotchy take on female ambition that somehow ends up lionizing him — the evergreen fable’s romantic “schmaltz” that’s hard-wired and not always easy to swallow. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The “fable,” moreover, fits neatly within neoliberalism’s simultaneous celebration of diversity and intensification of inequality. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z But many of these new poems also adopt the forms of myth, ballad and fable. Changeling by Clare Pollard ? review 2011-07-29T21:55:00Z The triumph of a plodding species over a swifter one isn’t just the stuff of Aesop’s fables. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z A fable about a stuffed animal that comes to life risks being a tedious cliché, but in Liniers’s skillful hands, “Good Night, Planet” is anything but. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z A fabulist, Varone reminded us in the program, “creates or relates fables, true or imagined.” Dance: Doug Varone’s Final Performance 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z A purveyor of wryly hilarious tales of jammed-up guys, somewhat twisted fables but with the ring of behavioral truth, Smith is making an imaginative leap here. New Matt Smith character hopes 'All My Children' are out there, somewhere 2010-05-27T20:19:00Z It's less of an experiment or a classic adventure than . . . a highly expositional small screen fable. "Loki" is an enjoyable, aesthetic romp that feels smaller than the God of Mischief deserves 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The forecast calls for "Cloudy With a Chance of Love" in this made-for-cable romantic fable. TV This Week Feb. 8 - 14: 'The Slap' on NBC and more 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Too mannered for realism and too thin for fable, it spins its wheels in a social and intellectual void filled only by Wakefield’s voice-over musings and the shadow of Doctorow’s virtuosity. Review: Bryan Cranston Is a Dad in Suburban Exile in ‘Wakefield’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z There’s an instant kick of visceral excitement, a Pavlovian jolt, in being enveloped in a bone-familiar pop fable. The VOID Is Where Virtual Reality Enters the Dying Meatspace of the Mall 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z At the core, fables in film and TV offer what they have from the time they were passed from one generation to another around campfires — a heady blend of fanciful escapism and harsh reality. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z His afterword to “Equal Danger,” Sciascia calls it “a fable about power anywhere in the world.” ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z His book proved an apt fable for a nation cresting toward maturity and eager to seize preeminence from senescent Europe. Oz Revisited – Part 2: How They Made It Wonderful 2013-09-17T15:44:25Z Says Alexander’s friend, poet Terrance Hayes, “The book is an elegy, with the quality of a fable so the boys would be able to grasp the richness of that relationship.” Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z He’s the stuff of real nightmares, the kind of character you might find in a news story about a lost or abused child, not a fable. The latest Elena Ferrante controversy: Her children’s book, ‘The Beach at Night’ 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Oldroyd and the screenwriter, Alice Birch, weave Leskov’s tale into a barbed feminist fable of class, cruelty and sexual power that feels absolutely true to its period and uncannily attuned to the present moment. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z All the characters, earthly and unearthly, remain one-dimensional, which is appropriate to a fable or allegory. ‘A Fable’ in Two Acts at the Cherry Lane 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But if you think about it, and the reason I made the film, is that this small story is like a fable that takes place in the middle of many tensions in our society. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z They were pop fables, something this slick spectacle doesn’t remotely aspire to be. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z There's a lot to flag up this week: Bruce Norris's fable of free-market economics, The Low Road, begins at the Royal Court, with Dominic Cooke directing his final production as artistic director. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-15T16:55:48Z But then the movie swerves — guilelessly and effectively — into the realm of folklore and fable. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Subtitled “a fable,” it asks whether humanity, if nearly wiped out in a cataclysmic war, would be worth salvaging. A Podcast Reaches Across Chicago’s Cultural Divides 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z With Mr. Carter, who died this year, Mr. Lemon built a layered world of fable, political archetypes and the everyday. Dance Review: Grappling With Grief, And Then With Bodies 2010-10-15T22:57:00Z In 1997 he produced A Song of Stone, a bleak political fable set in some unnamed land where civilisation has collapsed. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z Ann McGovern, the author of more than 50 children’s books that illuminated fables, history, the animal kingdom and other arcana and exotica for young readers, died Aug. 8 at her home in New York City. Ann McGovern, author of ‘Stone Soup’ and other children’s books, dies at 85 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The way individual collaborators describe their understanding of the record recalls the fable of the blind men and the elephant: each one grasped only a fraction of the whole. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z The Wind in the Willows Parson's Nose Theater offers a reader's theater presentation of Kenneth Grahame's family-friendly fable; for ages 12 and up. L.A. theater openings, March 13-20: 'Once' and more 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z And then there's the life, which is both epic and bizarre, as if he were a creature of myth or fable rather than of a provincial German city. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z Yet behind the captivation of the romantic domain, rests a tragic drama, and a fable of loss and disillusionment, yet the impermeable sense of magic and idealism. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Lucky for us, then, that Nick had faith in us, and constructed a strange and beautiful fable around our schtick. Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan: How we made our Brit hit Skeletons 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z “Macario,” which was nominated for an Oscar — and, like “Salón México,” shot by the distinguished cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa — was a prestige project, based on a fable by the expatriate writer B. Traven. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Lives Quietly Online 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The well-regarded Jeff Bridges, for example, seems almost certain to be named best actor for Crazy Heart, one of those redemptive fables so beloved by Academy's predominantly middle-aged members. 2010-02-02T16:31:00Z Together, they have modernized Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 story “The Snow Queen” into a fable of modern of timeless sisterhood. Frozen: This Disney Princess Movie Is Thaw-some 2013-11-23T21:19:59Z It carries the intimation of something deeper and grander into this minor fable of waning potency. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Because the movie is a fable, to some degree. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Green Valleys, Golden Sunsets and 'War Horse' 2011-12-21T19:13:47Z "Treasure Island" flows from this stream, as did "Metamorphoses," derived from Ovid, and "The White Snake," her rendering of a Chinese fable, seen at San Diego's Old Globe this year. For Mary Zimmerman, overseeing 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis, it starts with imagination 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z You can read whatever else you like into a soothing fable for flower children that gently preaches that nature is good and its destruction bad. Movie Review: ‘Epic,’ Directed by Chris Wedge 2013-05-23T22:59:35Z “Project Almanac,” a teenage time-travel fable, begins with its hero delivering a college admissions essay to the camera and continues to pretend that everything we see was filmed by the characters. ‘Project Almanac,’ a Teenage Tale of Time Travel 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z This dark fable isn’t a hit with some Miyazaki fans — the story takes eccentric turns, and the connections have to do with emotion, characterization and image rather than plot. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Like all horror movies, this is a grossly exaggerated fable, one that arrives by way of its impressive cinematography and interpolated tales at a startling but inevitable conclusion. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z Disney’s first Cinderella is the old fable transplanted to the Jazz Age, with physical comedy trumping dreamy romance. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Belgian-based cake maker and pastry chef Michael Lewis-Anderson made a chocolate scene based on the fable of the tortoise and the hare to remind people to stay at home. Stay home, eat chocolate: Belgian chefs celebrate Easter despite coronavirus 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z "Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" was No. 1 at the weekend box office with $73.7 million, besting last weekend's No. 1 film, Disney's animated fable "Frozen." 'Hobbit' box office elite with $73.7M 2013-12-16T02:42:08Z “Oh happy people of the future, who have not known these miseries and perchance will class our testimony with the fables.” What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In one of the evening’s more telling moments, Martin Scorsese was given a standing ovation when he took the stage to collect his Globe for directing “Hugo,” a fable of 1930s Paris. ?The Artist? and ?The Descendants? Win Golden Globes 2012-01-16T05:19:04Z The success of Sam Mendes' production lies in its reminder that, for all the razzle-dazzle of Mark Thompson's sets and costumes, Dahl's story is essentially a moral fable. Critics divided over Charlie merits 2013-06-26T10:57:40Z This dark, suspenseful fable traces how Jocelyne’s life falls apart even before she cashes the check. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, and More 2014-04-23T22:15:31Z I Can't Stand Myself Sober is a pitiful fable of lack of self-esteem. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z But these asides don’t further the larger tale, which, although it sits carefully between “Yes, this is a fable” and “No, it’s not,” should still get us tactfully to that “ever after” part. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And some parents are looking for names that haven’t been used for a couple of thousand years, taken from the ancient world, mythology or fables. Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to ‘L’ 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Strip the movie of its sassy sitcom patter, which most non-Pixar animated features indulge in to excess, and this is a fable of slavery and potential genocide: a 12 Years a Turkey, or Schindler’s Lunch. Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done 2013-10-31T23:00:09Z The references are specific, certainly, but they leave the door open for the world to plug into the fable's energy. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The work, an invented fable about how the Lark was ejected from the Chinese zodiac, set to clear, lucid and evocative music, was sung in English and staged with whimsical headdresses, choreography and PowerPoint animations. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z But the exhilaration provided by the Menier Chocolate Factory’s revival of the 1956 Leonard Bernstein musical “Candide,” based on Voltaire’s classic philosophical fable, lies more in its practice than its preaching. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stripped of Illusions, but Still Glittering and Gay 2014-01-23T17:10:33Z Making that story a fable — not unlike “Head Over Heels,” the Go-Go’s romp from 2018 — smartly relieves it of the pressure of reality. Review: On Broadway, ‘& Juliet’ (& Britney & Katy & Pink) 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z These may seem like fables from a bygone time. Microcinemas Pack a Special Mission in a Small Space 2011-09-02T19:03:04Z Or he may not have used that fable at all, Freedman says. Review | How spirituality shaped Leonard Cohen 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z In one she sings, "I'm a sensitive person and you don't like holding hands/My wings are bleeding," her vocals assuming the quality of a creature from a fable. New band of the day (Boho Dancer 1,561) 2013-07-25T14:45:59Z From tomorrow, The Boy Who Cried Wolf! – based on Michael Morpurgo's versions of Aesop's fables – spills out into King Street. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-07-12T16:03:25Z Photograph: AP Protesters are furious at the decision by Hollywood studio Universal Pictures to cast full-size actors as the eight dwarves in fantasy fable Snow White and the Huntsman. Snow White and the Huntsman casting condemned by campaigners 2012-06-07T13:50:55Z Just how such “holy” compendia of ahistorical, often macabre fables are supposed to help anyone in a “personal search for truth” mystifies me. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z The movie, directed by Joe Talbot, is a radiant and melancholic fable about one man’s sense of displacement in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. 2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: A star-making year for Majors 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z And yet he pushes in the right direction and cuts through familiar fables about racism and repression to expose the problems that permit extralegal violence. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Consider the comeuppance that awaited that same fable’s haughty hare. These Books Deliver Fables to Live By Today 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In the course of this section – part sinewy historical fiction, part inscrutable moral fable – Roth increases the tension by piling on even more niceness. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z However, the reality is that religion conveys no more wisdom on people than say, Aesop’s fables. Accommodation’s big flaw: The dangers of excusing religion 2014-02-11T20:35:00Z A British illustrator brings fables about unlikely friendships to life. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z This version, in the dreariest Hollywood-remake tradition, turns a grim, morally ambiguous story into a fable of empowerment. ‘Miss Bala’ Review: Gina Rodriguez Finds the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z When the family does connect, they do so over stories, through the Ashanti tales of before, and also through other fables that turn out not to be tall tales at all. For This Brooklyn Family, Myth and Reality Are One and the Same 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Though he visits war graves in Slovenia and Poland, Stasiuk is fascinated more by legends and fables than by history, and by the writers who helped to reinvent or subvert their national mythologies. On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:08Z “I’m not a fable or a hashtag or a cautionary tale,” they sing. Review: In ‘The Appointment,’ the Fetus Sings Out 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The first story is a fable about how her grandfather became a man, and it takes place during World War II, in the village where he grew up. Books of The Times: Family Fables Mix With a Riven Land?s Loss 2011-03-10T13:26:53Z She smiled and reminded me of Aesop’s fable of the milkmaid who vainly counted her chickens before they hatched. Katharine Graham at 100: Inside the making of one of the greatest Washington memoirs ever 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z She also broke up several songs with spoken-word interludes, which had the earmarks of fables, twisted bedtime stories or nursery rhymes for grownups. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z A production of "Sisterella," a pop-rock update of the Cinderella fable that had been backed by Michael Jackson, is being planned for Los Angeles next spring. Production of 'Sisterella' to be staged in L.A. 2010-10-01T19:31:00Z The "blockhead" he conjures reads everything and blindly attacks everything, "From Dryden's fables down to Durfey's tales." Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z Superficially an exciting nautical adventure yarn, the subtle, psychological fable centres on a party of Victorian children, captured by Caribbean pirates on their way to England, who send their accidental captors to the gallows. A High Wind in Jamaica ? DVD review 2011-08-13T23:15:01Z Say this for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone's sequel to his 1987 fable of institutionalized greed: none of the sharks in this pool whine over a little spilled blood. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z I heard it first as a fable in Somalia, before living it out in America. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z Nielsen makes the wise choice of largely avoiding proper names and other details that might drag her tale too far from the realm of fable. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The writers make the most of their understanding that that the fairy tale they're peddling is utterly ridiculous, but no more than any romantic fable about princes finding love among the peasantry. "Coming 2 America" takes the crown, delivering a sequel worthy of & less patriarchal than the first 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z At the very end of the book, after the fable, we find a cheesy story about several old friends who have come to Chicago for a high school reunion. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s a busy, beautiful vexation, this novel, a quiver full of fables of pilgrims and pilgrimages, and the reasons — the hidden, the brave, the foolhardy — we venture forth into the world. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Memento Mori is a kind of moral fable, whose ultimate aim is not to create an illusion of life but to defamiliarise it for an instructive purpose. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z It is also an extremely cruel fable, which takes no prisoners. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z This is especially urgent for Otto — the Dr. Frankenstein figure in this fable — a social misfit who relies on Mary to be his real-world eyes and ears. Review: In Fox’s ‘Second Chance,’ a Life Resurrected 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Remember the thirsty crow in the fable "The Crow and the Pitcher"? 'Gifts of the Crow': New book by Seattle authors about brainy birds 2012-06-04T01:30:06Z The piece is a fable about bad postal service and the difficulties of communicating before email and video chat. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Other fables, equally discredited, claimed that his coffin was used as a horse-trough. Richard III's remains could lie under Leicester car park, archaeologists say 2012-08-23T23:01:01Z This doesn’t cancel what’s come before, a solidly built and mercifully commentary-light fable, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel, about creating a religious act and taking it on the road. Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ steps up to the melodic pulpit There are the physical details – a person growing inside you – which, at the beginning especially, are so unlikely they feel more akin to a metaphor or fable than science. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Which means there are so many other marvels, other fables, other chances, masked or otherwise, to give yourself over to a theatrical world. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Though the rest of that Brooklyn indie-pop trio’s self-titled debut is an earthier set of fables about lost loves and frustrating careers, anchored in feathery guitars that turn torrid in a flash. Pop and Rock Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-30T23:46:58Z Manichaean title notwithstanding, it is not an easy fable to parse. ‘Black God, White Devil’: Holy War in Brazil’s Backlands 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z This decades-spanning fable of power and corruption turns out to be something much less clear-cut than the familiar David-and-Goliath tale of a sociopathic corporation and the lives it steamrolls. The 10 Best Books of 2021 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z And thus, none of these conservative outlets nor commentators ever realize that their idea about Oberlin is a fable. Why do conservatives hate Oberlin so much? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z This collection of 36 flash stories centers on one unnamed neighborhood in Japan, blending fable and the mundane. New in Paperback: ‘Wild Minds’ and ‘People From My Neighborhood’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The British illustrator brings fables about unlikely friendships to life. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers for the week of January 5 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Despite a prolific filmography of grandiose art house fare that has often wrestled with the vast span of Chinese history, the filmmaker has suffused a dynastic war fable with elements of a slapstick whodunit. ‘Full River Red’ Review: A Song Dynasty Blockbuster 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Also, I’m Jamaican and Nigerian, so I grew up on knowledge of the ancestors or oral storytelling, fables. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z And once again it has the quality of a half-seen fable, a story lost in time, rather than the seed of an entirely new and unexpected show: a fertile stone egg just waiting to hatch. Tales of Tyrion: what could a Game of Thrones spin-off series look like? 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z "But to the fiction writer, the myth, the legend, the fables are all powerful tools to create a psychological portrait." Pulitzer prize goes to novel about North Korea 2013-04-16T11:36:36Z I grew up on fables and Bible stories. This Week in Fiction: Amelia Gray 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z His selection includes books written in seven languages, and ranges from religious texts to philosophical treatises, fables, history and fiction. Paperback Row 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Du Bois argued that the idea that there was no prejudice in the North was a fable. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But in a genre that depends on tightly wound plotting, not all the dramatic screws and springs are in place to synchronize this dark fable and make it pop. Women on the edge, in 2 plays with local settings, on Seattle stages 2012-03-15T21:02:05Z “I think the brown hair brings out my hardworking and serious side, which is good for the winter — like the fable of the ant and the grasshopper,” she continued. Why Is Everyone Going Brunette? 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z First there is the fable of a plucky young British lad, who overcomes macho resistance and peer pressure from his friends and relations to follow his dream of becoming a ballet dancer. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z This is a grim and violent fable that pulls no punches and delivers emotional heft. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z If so, that will be a fable to watch. Even ‘Project Runway’ Couldn’t Save Zac Posen 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A sumptuous fable from the Australian director Cate Shortland, Lore follows a group of children “on their way to Grandmother’s house” after their Nazi parents are taken in by the Americans. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It even features a chorus, actors collectively known as “the Town,” who observe, comment on and participate in this fable about two couples whose fates become tragically intertwined. The absurdity of war, center stage, in 'Seven Spots on the Sun' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “Magic Mike,” released in the summer of 2012, was a musical fable for a moment of economic anxiety. Review: ‘Magic Mike XXL,’ Fleshing Out a Sequel With Heart as Well as Pecs and Abs 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The screenplay primes us to expect a Robin Hood-like heist fable in which the Four Horsemen steal money from big banks and rain it down on the struggling masses. Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me,’ Directed by Louis Leterrier 2013-05-30T21:29:58Z There’s a type of blunt, brutal fable about men and avarice that has been reworked every decade or so since Erich von Stroheim’s silent epic “Greed” was released in 1924. ‘Gold’ Review: Dry Heave 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z It wears its genre badge proudly but isn't confined by it, and it often feels more like a fable or cautionary tale than a straightforward sword-and-sorcery epic. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z Yet in Iran, where the government insists, for example, that protester Neda Agha Soltan was shot by her friends, there is already more than enough fable. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Yes, they have heard it before, so often in fact that it has the ring of a fable, just one of the many adventures that have made up the patchwork of Ms. Harley’s first century. How to Live to 100 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The film, conceived during a fractious era of the Vietnam war and Watergate hearings, became an escapist fable for a generation of frustrated Americans, he said. In a warehouse far, far away, the galaxy's top Star Wars collector holds court 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In a 1967 piece based on a Jean de La Fontaine fable, language piles up in silent layers as photographed words are projected over others printed on a screen. ‘Marcel Broodthaers,’ a Knot of Riddles in a MoMA Retrospective 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z This raucous reboot of “The Ugly Duckling” fable ends up nestling uneasily between bratty and brainy. Theater Review: ?Lucky Duck? at the New Victory Theater 2012-03-19T22:05:17Z True stories that resemble fictional ones have a feel of mythicism to them, a blurring of the line between reality and legend that allows us to amplify our humble times into something worthy of fable. Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The result was couture that chanted a little too much its inspiration: the famous French fables of Fontaine. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z What you get in Danny Boyle's production and Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z The Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s blunt, satirical fable, “Where Do We Go Now?,” takes place in a rural Middle Eastern village where Christians and Muslims coexist in an uneasy peace. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z In Hollywood fable it was Schwab’s, but really it was at a forgotten lunch counter called the Top Hat. Books of The Times: ‘Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame’ by Ty Burr 2012-09-23T18:07:45Z Against backdrops ranging from pastoral to densely urban to wildly exotic, enchantment always meets frightful challenges in Miyazaki's stylish fables. 'The Secret World of Arrietty': a borrowed and beautiful anime tale 2012-02-14T20:22:04Z Their multimedia piece suggested an urban fable, revolving around issues of gentrification and artistic integrity. New Music: Iggy and the Stooges, Darcy James Argue, Kenny Chesney 2013-04-29T21:31:45Z I took 10 books the first time — illustrated books, fables, fairy tales and happy stories of white children and their kind parents. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But you read Williams in vain if you’re looking for fables of empowerment or inspiring visions of sisterhood. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Those who persevere will discover beautiful writing about the Arab world that includes Mama Hissa’s fables. Review | In ‘Mama Hissa’s Mice,’ three Kuwaiti boys find solace in fables 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Which is not to suggest that this film is a sentimental or softheaded fable. In ‘Bird People,’ Two Unhappy Souls Cut Their Chains 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Another entry is on the moon and green cheese, with a string of references to fables about the moon and cheese, from Serbia, France and contemporary America. Why humans love cheese 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z It's a creepy, spectacular fable of innocence and experience, murder and misogyny, a classic horror film with a thread of Grand Guignol comedy that Bergman must have appreciated. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't: Beat the winter blahs! 2011-02-02T01:30:00Z More than once while reading “House,” I thought of James Joyce’s “The Dead,” another kaleidoscopic fable of family life that skillfully mixes perspectives. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Under Stacie Passon’s precise direction, this gothic fable of isolation and violence expertly treads a fine line between tragedy and camp. ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Review: An Arch, Feminist Fairy Tale 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z So as Francisco and other locals conspire to shut down the tower, it becomes easier to accept Hough’s more melodramatic tics: They’re the product of a writer striving for the clarity of a fable. ‘Dr. Brinkley’s Tower’: million-watt tower versus small Mexican town 2013-01-23T23:39:07Z As far back as the 1940s, Disney had tried and failed to update Hans Christian Andersen's dark fable. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Around that open wound, Charles builds a speculative fable that weaves between Haiti, Connecticut and Quebec, where the filmmaker grew up. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “Café Mort” is an improbable excursion into the supernatural, a latter-day fable that never establishes its rules or finds its footing. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Yet snapping at its heels with 11 nods is Life of Pi, a magical realist fable based on a celebrated novel about a boy and a tiger reluctantly sharing a lifeboat. Oscars 2013: Snubs and surprises 2013-01-10T16:19:32Z Or, maybe your mind goes to classic fiction and fables, in which mermaids are portrayed as treacherous sirens, hunting and preying on touch-starved sailors at sea. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The major characters in this solemn, slow-moving fable, which feels considerably longer than its 83 minutes, have symbolic names. Movie Review: ‘Hide Away,’ Directed by Chris Eyre 2012-05-31T21:23:01Z The second season of “Underground” premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. – two days after Carson characterized the horror endured by Africans stolen from their homes and families as an immigration fable. John Legend’s Resistance TV: Season 2 of “Underground” is our reminder that freedom isn’t free 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z But some of the biggest crowds of the season in Mobile are for the Joe Cain Procession, a down-home mix of fun and local fable where anyone can join in a parade for free. MoonPies and Merry Widows: Mardi Gras hits Mobile, Alabama 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z The entire cast and director Rob Raas-Bergquist are clearly inspired by Guirgis' mad fable and killer torrents of surgically precise dialogue. Theater reviews: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot' and 'Help' 2012-04-19T20:28:05Z In The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he wedded that sincerity to a classically austere camera style that helped those early fables of bereavement weave canny spells over the mass audience. The Last Airbender: Worst Movie Epic Ever? 2010-07-01T19:50:00Z But the scary fable about a fearsome being, conjured by a devilishly ambitious scientist, has haunted films even before the classic 1931 film represented him in the gruesome, hulking, neck-bolted form of Boris Karloff. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z The shape of that dream unfolds leisurely, almost luxuriantly, in an episodic narrative which, as its name suggests, serves as a kind of fable. | 'Go Go Tales': A Bar Where Everybody Knows Your Pole Dance 2011-01-06T23:12:04Z No paparazzi photographing C-list celebrities, no hysterical standing ovations, no mobile phones suddenly going off: simply a well-dressed, middle-aged, bourgeois Berlin audience enjoying an iconic German fable. Don't mention the phwoar: the future of German theatre 2011-03-13T21:31:00Z True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z But at heart it was a reassuring, Reagan-era fable about the importance of following rules. Video: New DVDs: ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch,’ ‘The Space Children’ 2012-06-17T02:43:01Z One has the sense that Mantel is working with some complex private material in these suavely stylish, vastly entertaining contemporary fables. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It is, at bottom, a fable of business dealings gone wrong. | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z Truly, it was the show of our times; a grand fable about social upheaval, corrupt politics, climate change, devastating weaponry — the works. Perspective | I’m signing off as TV critic, but here are six shows I’d happily watch again 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Gatsby is a fable about betrayal – of others, and of our own ideals. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z The Prince and the Pauper Family-friendly adaptation of the Mark Twain fable. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 22-March 1: 'Confessions of a Mormon Boy' and more 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z For another, he reworked the Rapunzel fable, providing the Giacometti with blond braids that trail to the floor. | The Baldessari Variations 2010-10-25T20:49:00Z These are some of the morals of VanderMeer’s fable, though the most valuable lesson might be a pragmatic one written for our current moment. Review | In Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Dead Astronauts,’ time travelers try to rescue a ruined world 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “Zenobia” is not so much a novel as a fable, a vignette in a lost life. Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s a revolutionary fable, ideal for this moment, offered with wisdom and care. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z This time, though, his account is much more embellished, absurdist, mostly fable and myth. Theater Review: ‘Wild Man in Rome,’ a Solo Show by Matthew Maguire 2012-11-19T22:52:54Z In the more indulgent universe of audiobooks, however, animals actually do talk, and not only in stories for children or edifying fables, but as fully fleshed characters with their own perception of reality. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “Without letting go of its grounding in the lives and desires of its characters, especially Ada, it becomes an unusual kind of ghost story, more unnerving than terrifying, a supernatural fable of resistance and revenge.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Atlantics’ and ‘The Report’ 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Also, fables give you an opportunity to amplify a thing, which is an exciting power. With ‘Roar,’ the Creators of ‘GLOW’ Got Extra Personal. And Weird. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z This striking debut blends personal and political essays with U.S. and Mexican histories, photos, menus and a fable to indulge “multiple habits of thought rather than proposing there is one way of knowing.” Newly Published, From Skateboarding to ‘Hamlet’ in New York 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z In families like mine, however, those in which fable has a tendency to blur into fact, there is no real way of knowing whether any, or all, of certain stories are true. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z With the tenor of a fable, “Wave” artfully traces the trajectory of this chapter of Gaspar’s life, from coma to consciousness and from isolation to connection, culminating in a triumphant use of seventies Bowie. Screening Room: A Short Film of Dreamy Imagery and Mysterious Language 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z A Christmas Carol Dickens’ holiday fable, with original music. L.A theater openings, Nov. 30-Dec. 7: 'Northanger Abbey' and more 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Zacarías, who is among the country’s most produced playwrights, subtitled her play “a historical fable.” Review: A Legal Battle Over Adoption in ‘The Copper Children’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z We’re not just afraid of predators, we’re transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness survival. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z A coming-of-age fable that transports elements of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to the African savanna, “The Lion King” is not so much an adaptation of the Disney animated film of the same title. The musical that roared: ‘Lion King’ returns to the Paramount 2014-03-14T23:59:20Z Ms. Biller’s fantasy of power, desire and vengeance is at once angrier and more playful than Ms. Smoczynska’s fable of heartbreak and sisterly solidarity. Review: In ‘The Lure,’ Two Mermaids Walk Into a Strip Club (Things Get Weirder) 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Tears of Joy Theatre The Portland-based puppet troupe returns with a pair of bilingual, family-friendly fables inspired by Mexican and Argentinian folk tales. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 15-22: 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In Streep's good hands she crackles with rage, resentment and revenge, but she also has a wicked sense of humor and never, ever forgets this is a fable. The trip 'Into the Woods' is spooky, thoughtful, delightful 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Over the next 200 or so pages, Porter unspools a partial fable about Lanny, one grounded in reality and domestic life but also threaded with fantasy and the musings and manipulations of the ever-watchful Toothwort. Review | Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ is a lyrical look at the tribulations of parenting 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z As a work of literature the Bible has everything: poetry, philosophy, storytelling, myths, fictions, riddles, fables, parables, allegories. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z There are echoes too of "The Divine Comedy" and "The Magic Flute," of Joel Chandler Harris' fables and Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Stories." Welcome to a land of enchantment in 'Over the Garden Wall' 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z In this play recovery is not a sideshow, or some kind of fable. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z La Fontaine was the French Aesop, and published his first fables in 1668. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z He would defend the American fable, the mythology. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The result is a spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europe’s vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables. When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z A strange fable about brothers and dreams, related by the Medium, points toward mythological interpretations of human behavior. Gala’s ‘Yo También Hablo de la Rosa’ punctuates its social commentary with humor 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z He resigned himself to a comfortable bourgeois existence, fashioning stories and fables for his own amusement. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z As he liberates the apes, and triggers the irresistible rise promised in the title, the movie becomes a political fable: a Marxist view of the oppressed masses edging toward revolution. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z Be prepared, though, as “Mud” — which reads like a thriller but is described as a fable — promises a more mysterious and manipulative McConaughey than even “True Detective’s” cryptic Rust Cohle. Watch these movies over Memorial Day weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z As bracing as these portraits of female potency and swagger are, they seem strangely straitened, relegated to the realms of animated fables, retooled fairy tales or action-driven fantasy. In summer films, contradictions of progress for women in full force Both are also given to pursuing grandiose fables of agonized American manhood, and sometimes find themselves fighting uphill battles against mediocre material. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Ivey described the piece as a “modern-day fable rooted in stark reality” that “explores what it means to be a Sikh American in this day of racism and fear.” Lauren Yee and Jaclyn Backhaus Win Horton Foote Prize for Plays 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Across cultures, different mythologies have dreamed up fables of an underworld to accommodate the souls of the dead. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z “The whole record is a ‘be careful what you wish for’ fable,” she said via phone from her London home, where she spent quarantine. Florence Welch Thrives on Horror. And She Still Wants to Smell You. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z I admired, more than I enjoyed, this folk-horror fable set in the lush rural landscapes of 19th-century Macedonia, where the supernatural and the ordinary share a fraught coexistence. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The result is a resonant fable in which neither eastern nor western values emerge unscathed. Blue Dragon - review 2011-02-19T00:26:01Z Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, published in 1970, is a fable telling the story of a bird that is guided through spiritual lessons. Author Richard Bach crashes plane 2012-09-01T20:57:31Z In her poetic and music-rich fable “Uprising,” playwright Gabrielle Fulton explores a little-known corner of American history with much heart and mixed success. Blending fact and fiction to create a moving tale 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z This isn’t a facile fable about the very real evils of racism, one in which the villains are typical mouth-breathing rednecks. A horror movie for our time: “Get Out” is frighteningly topical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In 2008, Silver Jews released the delightful, occasionally buoyant “Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea,” an album full of dark, rollicking fables that feel like short stories set to music. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Television and our tastes have evolved in ways that make us better able to appreciate Gaiman's fable in terms of its artistry and its adventurous plot progression. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z A moral fable about greed and comeuppance, crimes and misdemeanors, “Blue Jasmine,” begins with a socialite brought low and evolves into a tragedy that becomes greater than one woman’s tragedy. Movie Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ 2013-07-25T16:13:31Z “It’s a boy’s adventure wrapped in a detective story tucked inside a nuclear allegory surrounded by a dystopian fable.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Akira' 2011-03-28T21:56:05Z But one never wholly throws away the fables that old Nigerian women tell. The Beauty and Burden of Being a Nigerian Bride 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Certainly, Miller — whose fables include the Mad Max series — is keenly interested in the power of stories. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The European planet hunters and the old man repeating fables about a “party in the sky” are from two different worlds, but share the same zeal for observation and the recognition of beauty. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z This is a story as old as fairytales and fables. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Wells's fables were a kind of automatic writing – messages from his subliminal self that his conscious mind dismissed. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, it is a bloody fable about a former slave, played by Jamie Foxx, who hunts white overseers in search of a lost love, played by Kerry Washington. Fall Films Tackle Tough, Politically Tinged Subjects 2012-07-31T18:07:17Z Perhaps I live in a sort of fable, an ordinary fable. Louise Erdrich on the Power of Stones 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Dirk Durossette’s set ensconces us in Lenny’s den for a drawing room fable in which the ends justify the means, and happily ever after includes rooting for injuries — and waiting for the police reports. | 'Any Given Monday': ?Any Given Monday? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-10-17T23:17:13Z Your Name director Makoto Shinkai returns with another highly wrought fable of young love, here featuring a teenage runaway who falls in love with a “sun girl” – a kid who can change the weather. The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Miri’s book isn’t about poverty and dispossession — those are subtext in a fable about the nation of Japan, the author’s home. Review | Yu Miri’s ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ focuses its attention on the shamefully overlooked 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z I had not comprehended the film's poise, its Dickensian breadth, its uncanny moments, the impress of a fable behind our "cotton-wool living", or its capacity to touch a kind of joy. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z This is a gigantic fable of genuine truths held together by a connective tissue of tender exchange between fictional friends, lovers, parents and children. The Heroes of This Novel Are Centuries Old and 300 Feet Tall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z I grew up adoring these fables, thrilled by stories from a time when children were scared rather than soothed to sleep. Fangtastic reads: werewolf books 2011-07-19T10:38:23Z Baron Cohen will next be seen as the station master in Hugo Cabret, a 3D fable set in Paris and directed by Martin Scorsese. Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel 2011-01-20T16:39:32Z She is an affable, uninhibited performer, whether as narrator or as the mysterious stranger, peddling the fable to us via enchanting lyrics and flourishes of humor. ‘Where We Stand’ Review: Gifts are Given, but at What Cost? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Sebald, and in the process illuminates fresh parallels between timeless fable and postmodern experiment. Review | In ‘Not a Novel,’ Jenny Erpenbeck continues to evolve 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Both established Eggers as a stylistic descendant of the Brothers Grimm, a crafter of macabre fables that descend into torrents of madness. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The production has the look of an earthy fable, and it complements the deceptively colorful Schmidt-Jones score. At Ford’s, a cool ‘110 in the Shade’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z They made a case for the writing as a political fable. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z But if the Cinderella fable has an owner and chief curator, it’s Walt Disney. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Here, the fable and boogeyman are one in the same: whiteness. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But this tale is both a reminiscence — told by the young man himself, many years later, to a wide-eyed writer who has come to visit him — and a fable. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z At times it is like being inside a labyrinth of fictions devised by Borges or Calvino, as the props of reassurance fall away and fact becomes fable. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z These two translations—different from one another in ways large and small—lay to rest the fable of the “perfect” translation. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The Peacock Cloak Karen Lord's first novel was a well-received magical realist fable based on African folklore; her second is a complete change of pace. Science fiction – review roundup 2013-05-08T08:00:02Z With Wilco picking and strumming like a string band, Jeff Tweedy spins a free-associative fable about elemental forces of life and death, leading into a brief but probing jam that reunites country and psychedelia. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Based on an old fable, “Kalila” is about a king’s ambitious, jealous adviser, who is suspicious of the influence of a poet who has aroused the passions of the people. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Kingdom of Earth Rising waters trap three outcasts in a rundown Mississippi farmhouse in this rarely produced Tennessee Williams fable. L.A. theater openings, July 10-17: 'Space' and more 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z What perhaps is not surprising is how “Antebellum” presents the lurid spectacle of a woman’s humiliation as if it were a fable of empowerment. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Later European editions included such beloved fables as “Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” Chorale, violist to join SSO for water works 2013-03-27T21:08:35Z Rodrik compares them, somewhat impishly, to fables, but he means the comparison as a compliment to both. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z One of her earliest biographies is filled with inaccuracies and racist language, while a cottage industry of children’s books paints a picture of her that’s often more fable than flesh and blood. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Reynard is the fox of medieval fable, inspiring Paul Mellon’s poem, “The Fox & The Rabbit.” Review | Two rarely seen paintings offer a peek into the very private world of Paul and Bunny Mellon 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It's a clever, thoughtful fable about the breakdown of communication between people and cultures. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'The American'? Try 'The Mexican' and other similar films 2010-09-02T19:56:00Z Dickens’s fable and its stage and cinematic manifestations counter the long slowing down of the heart with a story of renewal and redemption. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The show takes as its starting point a Chinese fable based on the story of Xuanzang, the monk who made an epic overland journey to India to bring back venerated Buddhist texts. Chen Shi-Zheng’s Road to ‘Monkey: Journey to the West’ 2013-07-04T20:05:44Z A fable about an 11-year old motherless boy in a rough, depressed mining town, and his burgeoning passion for ballet dancing, the indie film was gritty but also sentimental, bleak but hopeful, too. Review: 'Billy Elliot' is pro-union, and pro-razzle-dazzle, too 2011-03-25T00:20:39Z Soon the full horror of Ms Wood’s contemporary fable becomes clear. The way of the world 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Travisano called her early poems “fables of enclosure,” based on her somewhat isolated upbringing. Literary Nonprofit Buys Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West Home 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Heisenberg A chance encounter between two strangers in a London train station opens up a world of possibilities in Simon Stephens’ romantic fable, featuring Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt reprising their Broadway roles. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 2-9: 'Heisenberg' and more 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z And there are some that try to fill the void with fable and fantasy, like “Inglourious Basterds” and “Life Is Beautiful.” Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Its portrait of what the author called “the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators” would have been found less offensive, he wrote, “if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs.” Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z The Corman film of “Shop” was, like many horror and sci-fi flicks of the Eisenhower years, a fable of the atomic age, playing to a nation’s fears of science run amok. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan Groff Feeds the Beast 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The former is a punk fable about a femboy who finds he can alter his body and gender at will. John Cameron Mitchell Finds Joy in Mavis Staples and ‘Veneno’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Rohrwacher’s third feature starts out as a simple fable of rural Italian life, centered on a simple young man living among fellow sharecroppers in an isolated hamlet. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The only other place it could be expressed was in encoded form in fantastic fables. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Throughout the episode we hear repeated versions of the same story: Appointment in Samarra, an old fable about being unable to escape an appointment with death. Sherlock recap: series four, episode one – The Six Thatchers 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Gruesome Playground Injuries Rajiv Joseph’s darkly-comic fable about a man and a woman, former childhood friends, whose paths continue to cross over three decades. L.A. theater openings, May 15-22: 'Camp David' and more 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Tales of heroes and villains feel, right now, like the stuff of fables. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “This,” Eleanor Nairne wrote in her review of the show in The New York Times, “is painting with the subversive edge of a contemporary fable, fresh from the imaginative depths of a wicked national treasure.” Paula Rego, Artist Known for Unsettling Images, Dies at 87 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Lee wanted it all and made it all, taking B-movie pulp and transforming it into a tragic fable, a feminist story of repression, a heartbreaking love story and a technically groundbreaking action blockbuster. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It gives a special quality to this doomsday fable of fate and justice. Jonas Mekas, Champion of the “Poetic” Cinema 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z I wasn't into hearing another version of his ancient war fable that fascinated the boys. Why my father fasted on Yom Kippur: On survival, memory, and the power of a family story 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Hammond wrote the book for “String,” a modern-day fable that debuted in Washington last year. Three Musical Theater Writers Receive $100,000 Kleban Prizes 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z If "Centurion" is a blend of old-school action movie, historical fable and outright fantasy, Marshall handles all those elements ably. "Centurion": Trapped in the Roman Empire's Vietnam 2010-08-26T01:30:00Z In that sense, the simulation argument is a thoughtful and expansive materialist fable that is almost, but not quite, religious. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Attuning Herbert's fable to forcefully speak to the sentiments of this age, they clearly delineate the divide between the sacred nature of the spice and its industrial value without exoticizing the indigenous characters. "Dune" is the masterful adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic we've been waiting for 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z What I like about the movie is that it’s a fable about power: how power can transform human beings, be they men or women. A Conductor’s Battle With a Classical Music Gender Barrier 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Wondrously weird and a skosh too long, “Good Manners” is a dark Brazilian fable of animalistic passions and social isolation. Review: ‘Good Manners’ Is a Twisty Werewolf Tale From Brazil 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z But it is also the way fables handle the subtext, using mystical worlds as a prism for problems, that allow us a fresh look without the tale being clouded by contemporary culture. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Let me reassure you that while "Leap Year" goes to some profoundly troubling places, it's not, in the end, some utterly dark fable of misogyny or nihilism. Pick of the week: A dark, erotic "Leap Year" in Mexico 2011-06-24T00:30:00Z Yet the Boston-based ensemble Liars & Believers strikes intriguingly ominous notes in its showbiz fable, “Icarus,” which sets the familiar story of a child who dreams big in a Depression-era traveling sideshow. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Icarus’ 2013-07-25T21:02:49Z In the second volume of Coetzee’s allegorical fable, which began with his 2013 novel “The Childhood of Jesus,” Davíd and Simón forge new lives in a country where immigrants’ memories have been washed away. Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Take “Moonstone,” a favorite of mine, a tight fable of cinephilia, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, gay hustlers and Icelandic independence. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The cat's out of the bag in the made-for-cable romantic fable "The Nine Lives of Christmas." TV This Week Nov. 2 - 8: The Game, 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z His novel The Man Who Went Away, published in 1952 under his pen name, was a fable about his war experience. George Solomos obituary 2010-12-13T18:26:00Z The plot of “Timon” is fairly straightforward: the fable of a man at two radically opposite interludes, first when he has everything, and then nothing. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Even Mackintosh regards the dark, shiny fable of the tortured, disfigured Phantom and the sweet soprano Christine as “the most beautiful of my big shows.” Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Bird was astonished to find a richly imagined fable, in Twain’s inimitable voice. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Several tales about girls oppressed by step-relations appear in “The Arabian Nights,” a medieval compendium of Middle Eastern fables. Cinderella gets to go to the ball — in Seattle Opera production 2013-01-03T20:22:20Z And as usually occurs in such fables, the more the greedy get, the more they want. Review: ‘Radiant Vermin,’ Newlyweds on a Dodgy Path to a Dream House 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Confronted with its imminence, the membrane that separates the rational from the irrational ruptures, and we enter the same space we occupy when we surrender to fable and myth. Kissing the Dead 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z As her obscurities deepened and her landscape ramified, so Lady Lisa was transfigured into a being of myth and fable. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z A work of movement-theater, lyrically directed and designed by Jessica Grindstaff, the production enlisted a forest of woodland creatures in a collage of fables, fairly tales and epics depicting fraught encounters between humans and nature. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z At the same time, these animals are utterly fantastic, characters from fables yet to be written: “The Bobcat and the Butterfly”; “The Catfish and the Coyote”; “The Seahorse and the Elephant.” | Westchester: A Review of ‘Hudson River Explorers,’ in Yonkers 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace This hilarious and terrifying account of a Caribbean Luxury Cruise is scrupulous documentary realism but also a contemporary fable. Michael Foley's top 10 absurd classics 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z It’s “Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas,” a music-dotted fable in the tradition of “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street,” “Elmo Saves Christmas” and assorted other holiday offerings featuring the furry gang. Weathering a Blizzard of Christmas TV Programming 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In the second part, Khan uses his forceful and graceful technique to create a moral fable that explores the idea of blindness, not just physical, but also moral and intellectual. Dance picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z But they are powerful fables, and they represent for Hindus what the Bible and the Greek myths together may have historically represented in the West. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z “The Fool” wraps its Hobbesian vision of squalor around a fable worthy of Frank Capra, but twisted to suggest a cruel inversion of Capra’s inspirational allegories of humble Everymen crusading for justice and democratic ideals. Review: ‘The Fool’ Is Yuri Bykov’s Look at Corruption 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Screwball Comedy A woman tries to break into the male-dominated world of journalism in the 1930s in the U.S. premiere of Norm Foster’s retro-styled fable. The week ahead in SoCal theater, July 15-22: REDCAT's New Original Works Festival and more 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Clinging protectively to her swaying heroine, a Parisian student returning to her birthplace on Guadeloupe to seek the father she barely remembers, Ms. Monpierre translates her own experiences into a tangy island fable. Movie Review: ‘Elza,’ by the Writer and Director Mariette Monpierre 2012-11-30T01:39:56Z If “The Sopranos” was a timely parable about the crumbling state of the American family, “Game of Thrones” is a timely fable of sweeping global destruction and doom. Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z Out to lunch, over the top and tongue-in-cheek are just a few ways to describe the eclectic, eccentric horror fable "Horns." Daniel Radcliffe sprouts 'Horns,' enters the supernatural 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z "The Social Network" is a fable of success and loss, born in a college dorm room and told in drunken conversations and legal depositions; both cautionary tale and crackling entertainment. 'The Social Network': Tale clicks as it follows drama behind Facebook's creation 2010-09-29T23:53:00Z This is a story of time and tides and quests, the sort of fable on which mythologies and religions are founded. ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon,’ From PigPen Theater 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It is a fable that neatly sums up Correa's own journey. 'Architecture has become too mundane' 2013-05-15T06:58:36Z That is the plan and the wish of this story, and it goes to the heart of fairy tales, which are, as Italo Calvino put it, “consolatory fables.” A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Tokarczuk lamented the decline of the fable as a form, and the loss of literature as a site for radical tenderness that might militate against self-obsession and refresh our sensitivity to the world. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z This production, directed and adapted by Jim Niesen, using John Willett’s classic translation, captures some of the spirit of Brecht’s cynical war fable but none of the philosophical or political heft. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Imagine Voltaire's Candide with the hero rewritten as a reckless entrepreneur rather than a feckless innocent, or a picaresque fable by Henry Fielding transplanted to America between 1759 and 1776, and you get the picture. The Low Road – review 2013-03-28T12:01:43Z Like most of the Coens’ movies, this one sidesteps the political turmoil of its period, partly because it is a fable, not a work of history. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z There's such a blow-your-mind meta level to "Black Swan," anyway; a fable about the mad, controlling nature of artists made by an obsessive-compulsive director, etc. Great Oscar debate: Is Natalie Portman overrated? 2011-02-23T19:45:00Z Because “Only Gold” is in fact a fable — its title apparently drawn from the Tennyson line “love is the only gold” — you may not mind that. Review: In ‘Only Gold,’ Each Move Is Worth 1,000 Words 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The story, first read in its entirety by Sherlock, is based on an ancient Mesopotamian fable that appears in the Babylonian Talmud. Sherlock recap: series four, episode one – The Six Thatchers 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z But Yan’s fable, joining a long lineage of so-called “records of anomalies” in Chinese literature, forces readers to reflect on the side of the world that is “too absurd, too cruel and too unpleasant.” In a Brutal Chinese Satire, Villagers Surrender to Their Worst Impulses 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z This show is inspired by the hosts’ podcast and book of the same name, a dating guide that includes fables, quizzes and graphs. Valentine’s Day Is a Laughing Matter at Q.E.D. and More Complex at Bookforum 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z It is also the narrator’s coming-of-age story, starting at 9 — a dark fable that traces the metamorphosis of a bright schoolboy into an appalling monster. Review: In ‘More,’ Dispatches From Hell by a Human Trafficker 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Somehow, this companion, who we never saw again, reinforced the idea of Fire Island Pines being a bit of a gay fable. Reminiscences of a ?Gay Utopia? 2011-11-19T00:08:14Z Tortoise Regrets Hare by James Yorkston is a beautiful ballad about lost love using metaphors from the Aesop fables. Readers recommend: songs about rabbits – results 2012-08-23T14:39:00Z I was lied to and America's false ideological culture of Blackness continues to praise The Street fable. My American dreams and nightmares: On Mississippi streets, "Native Son" and Jeezy vs. Gucci Mane 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z It's a comedy that isn't all that funny, a satire that never really shows its claws or finds its target, a fable whose message is muddied and unclear. Ivona, Princess of Burgundia ? review 2011-01-12T22:01:01Z A lavishly costumed anthology of exotic fables may be the movie he dreams of making, but reality keeps distracting him. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” Joe Talbot made a helluva debut with this fable set in the titular city. The wildest, most poignant, or unforgettable movie scenes of 2019 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z The other “fables” seem to be cautionary satires about the psychic rot that breeds within totalitarian regimes. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z The Emmy-winning "Primal" established its fable about a pair of tragedy survivors banding together against a supernaturally savage world over 10 riveting episodes that defy the common approach to narrative. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Camus compares the human condition to the fate of Sisyphus, eternally condemned to push a rock up a hill, a fable that will resonate with all those obliged to work for a living. Michael Foley's top 10 absurd classics 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy. The Best Podcasts of 2019 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Scott said it “succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable.” Holiday Movies to See (or Skip) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Featuring 14 actors who rollick around and amid the audience areas and band pit, channeling 60-plus characters, the staging brightens and complements Bertolt Brecht’s all-too-relevant fable about power, self-interest, callousness and social inequality. What you should be seeing in D.C. theater this week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Nothing in this stressful, intricately plotted fable of modern life is as simple as we or the characters might wish. ‘A Hero’ Review: Debts No Honest Man Can Pay 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z By persuading us to drop our snarky defenses and embrace his fables, Lucas had forged a bond with fanboys like no filmmaker, outside of Spielberg, before or since. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z It's an organized crime fable rubbing shoulders with the story of an angel of mercy serial killer with brief ruminations about the myth of race and assimilation strapped to its ankle. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Macbeth Ensemble Theatre Company opens its season with Shakespeare’s dark fable about an ambitious Scottish warlord. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 25-Oct. 2: 'Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth' and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Adding insult to injury, the year’s big winner was the whitest civil rights fable imaginable, Bruce Beresford’s cornball Driving Miss Daisy. The 10 best Oscar snubs 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z “These are myths and fantasies,” Foucheux’s increasingly dismissive Freud rants about religious fables. A rich ‘Freud’s Last Session’ at Theater J In summary, such stories may sound like familiar tales of mid- and later-life crises, or like old-fashioned fables about privileged Europeans who have washed up in provincial or colonial outposts. Books of The Times: No Safe Harbor for Travelers in ‘The Other Language’ 2014-03-30T21:47:39Z It’s less like a story than an oft-told fable, or at least a simulation of one, a set of familiar gestures meant to engage a set of audience reflexes and unconscious yearnings. Bill Murray and Robert Downey Jr.: Great actors trapped in dumb fables 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In this book you'll also find exotic fables, humorous sketches, pastiche, political diatribes, anecdotes, doodles, scraps of conversation. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z Future pop historians will one day argue about how much of Del Rey’s persona is satire, but this time around, the fables she’s selling are more noxious and dark, delivered with less of a wink. ‘Ultraviolence’ is the set of songs Lana Del Rey was invented to sing A fable about New Zealand's indigenous Maori people before the arrival of European settlers, "The Dead Lands" values entertainment over archaeology. Entertaining 'Dead Lands' skips over Maori realities 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In this expressionistic fable, creeps have claws, limbs stretch like linguine noodles, and the would-be lovebirds must settle for much less than seven glitzy sequels. ‘The 2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Small Tales, Big Ideas 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It is adjacent to a 14th-century Arabic version of the fables from Syria, and a 15th-century printed book from Strasbourg that is a Latin translation of an early Hebrew translation of the Arabic. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z Like the fables surrounding a Samuel Goldwyn Jr. or a David O. Selznick, tales of Mr. Bergé’s generosity were as legion as stories about his acts of gratuitous offense. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s a sly moral fable about love and theft and guile and justice. Critic’s Notebook: A Splendid Little Book Club Has Ended Its Run 2013-04-24T21:59:48Z While it gets a fair measure of that in this new production by co-directors Rupert Goold and Michael Fentiman, it took a long while for CS Lewis's fable to exert its usual narrative grip. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – review 2012-05-31T10:37:01Z Like all fables, it is very simple in outline — and thus arguably better suited to literary rather than theatrical expression. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z It's religious doctrine as bedtime fable, and suitable fodder for a movie epic. Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z True to its neorealist pedigree, the film works partly as a fable, an illustration of how impersonal forces shape individual human destinies. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z This history is interwoven with fables, gossip, myths and other assorted tales. 8 books about Muslim life for a nation that knows little about Islam 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z But Ching says he sought to put a modern twist on the fable by mixing action with special effects. Jet Li subdues demons in fantasy action film 2011-09-02T17:19:08Z And in a move that signals an end to her self-imposed Hollywood exile, she is also starring in M. Night Shyamalan’s glossy new horror fable, “Old,” which arrived in U.S. movie theaters on July 23. Vicky Krieps Gave Hollywood One More Try. It Wasn’t So Bad. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z One of the main purposes of modern feature-length animation is to blend together traditional film genres — usually romantic comedy cross-bred with action-adventure — and recast them as beast fables with ready-made merchandising potential. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z You might think so after encountering “Marriage of the Sun,” his fable in which our own star weds one that’s equally bright. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z For almost half a century, he’s been weaving this quirk into poignant romantic fables, often galvanized by offbeat casting decisions that add unexpected layers to whatever story he’s telling. Review: Lonely in Los Angeles, Until ‘Ray Meets Helen’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z We wanted it to have a fable quality. Going Back to ‘Groundhog Day.’ Again. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The Hubble Cantata LA Opera co-presents the West Coast premiere of this musical fable, enhanced by images from the Hubble Space Telescope, about an astrophysicist searching for his wife among the stars. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 8-15: 'The Hubble Cantata,' 'The Consul' and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z The Shape of Water, a romantic fable about a janitor who falls in love with a sea creature, has won 13 Oscar nominations, leading a field of films with an unexpectedly strong British showing. Oscar nods pour in for The Shape of Water in year coloured by #MeToo 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Even at its most endearing, the Saint-Exupéry story is far from the kind of smugly reassuring children’s fable manufactured by Hollywood nowadays. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The homage comes off as rather tone-deaf, given that the story of a grown-up spoiled brat hardly makes for a fable about a prince exiled from his kingdom. An oblivious 'Longest Week' quickly wears out its welcome 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Their forms range from a linked trio of sporting stories to an eerie historical fable and a multi-generational family saga. Globetrotting shortlist for Independent foreign fiction prize 2010-04-16T09:44:00Z Suddenly the film boomerangs into a Coming to America culture-clash fable. Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It deploys more than one narrative style: in addition to the mental muttering, there is, at intervals, that animal fable, about a mountain lioness searching for her cubs. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The earliest stories, after all, were fables, allegories, shared aloud, and there is something of the allegorical to “Drunken Fireworks,” as well. Stephen King's 'Drunken Fireworks' -- available only on audio 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Its fascination is more like that of a fable, tracing the quick, jagged course of Ivan’s descent. Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z In an age of science and reason, animators such as Harryhausen brought the world of magic and fable to life in entirely new ways. Moving art: the magic of animation 2011-08-23T11:40:04Z This dreamy little fable serves as an excellent metaphor for the cycles of modern art. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z Matthew Weiner’s long-running fable of existentially traumatised ad men finished only last year, but it does seem a long time ago. Can Matthew Weiner bring the Mad Men magic to Amazon? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The first ghoulish figment of the subconscious, then, is the terrifying Amy Adams, crossing from the gloomy animated world of Disney fable to the Elysian plain of Times Square in Enchanted. Clip joint: manhole covers 2011-02-23T13:59:15Z The 12 tales that follow are a frothy mix of fable and ghost stories, all told in a register appropriate to the season. Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Christmas stories are a magical holiday treat 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Andersen’s chilly fable, brightened for a modern audience with original songs and a narrative spin that put the relationship between two sisters at its core, was renamed Frozen. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Her poetry was known for its use of fables, anecdotes and extended metaphors, often peppered with irony and bitter humor. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z “Norte” is partly a political fable, a smoldering, meticulous indictment of injustice and inequality. ‘Norte’: Long, slow tale revolves around murder in Philippines 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z He made his name with his antic short stories — fables, really — thronged with suicides, amputations, broken men: “the malformed detritus of capitalism, the necessary cost of doing business.” George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “The story is a simple and appealing fable of indomitability and father-daughter companionship,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Eagle Huntress’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In many ways these sardonic and very short fables are the next installment in the series of strange scenarios cooked up in Keret’s brain since his first collection appeared in Hebrew in 1992. If Kafka Were Israeli and Wrote About Talking Goldfish 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Wordsworth gives examples of two fables from antiquity, Proteus rising from the sea, and Triton blowing his wreathed horn. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z And it is also a primal political fable for the digital age, a real-time tableau of the confrontation between the individual and the state. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In the process the show reduces McPherson’s remarkable life to a cliché-bestrewn fable about the wages of fame. Theater Review: ‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson’ 2012-11-16T03:00:13Z In an amusing feint at the frenzied finale, the filmmakers leap, with the help of Ryder’s nuance and aplomb, from one contemporary fable to another, also born out of culturally shaped cravings. ‘Gone in the Night’ Review: Double-Booked and Double-Crossed 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z That Twentieth Century Fox picture felt like Disney then and still smacks of “Cinderella” and other princess fables. Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It is the fable of a Sophiatown couple whose marriage fractures when the man discovers his wife’s affair, and a suit her lover left behind. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z There was a fable about American power built into them. Perspective | Trump spoke of images he’d ‘never seen before.’ Now there are mass graves in New York. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z A Christmas Carol Brand-new adaptation of Dickens' classic holiday fable. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 6-13: Cirque du Soleil's 'Kurios' and more 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Bosnia and Herzegovina was the setting of Mr. Tanovic’s first and best movie, “No Man’s Land,” a diabolically absurdist wartime fable that won an Oscar in 2001 for best foreign language film. Movie Review: Danis Tanovic?s ?Cirkus Columbia,? Set in Bosnia 2012-02-16T23:59:02Z Cuffing season is a lot like Aesop’s fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z And “Finian’s Rainbow” is a fable always worth retelling, with an absurd plot which is really not absurd at all. I’m 46. Is That Too Old to Play the Ingénue? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The British illustrator brings to life fables about unlikely friendships. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Disney fable in which a couple's parenting dreams magically come true. This week's new films 2013-03-30T06:00:10Z He also plainly relishes playing the whimsical Cervantes of writer Dale Wasserman’s imagination, jailed during the Inquisition and playacting fables with the roughneck inmates sharing his dungeon. Shakespeare Theater Company’s ‘La Mancha’ lances its mark 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The title character seeks bloody revenge in Stephen Sondheim’s dark musical fable set in 19th century London. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 9-16: Pat Kinevane's 'Underneath' and more 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “Huck Finn” the novel is in part a profound fable about transcending inherited prejudices — as Huck gradually sees Jim not as chattel, but as a true friend. Book-It’s engaging Huck and Jim navigate the n-word | Theater review 2013-04-23T01:30:59Z In stories called “Incident in the Forest” and “The Wedding,” for instance, Copp retells the fable of the lion and the mouse. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But contrary to the familiar discovery fable, the Spanish weren’t the first ones here. In the Bahamas, Cat Island offers spectacular diving and solitude for miles 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Is it a coincidence that both of these fables of female empowerment without dire consequences were directed by women? | 'Puzzle': Solving Puzzles to Help With the Riddle of Midlife 2011-05-26T21:26:17Z And in his style — this pastiche of poem, autobiography and fable — there is an integration of the self that the life never afforded. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Irony alert: As is the way in such fables, it is Akim’s perfection and obedience that attract the trouble. Review: Beauty, Blackness and Beyoncé, in ‘If Pretty Hurts’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The imaginatively staged and choreographed resolution may be only a wish fulfillment fantasy, but it shows why this classic fable resonates most vividly in times of beleaguered idealism. At A Noise Within, 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' is the resistance to a self-serving president 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z And when my father took his last breath, he did what all characters of fable do to defy fate: he became nothing and, in that exact moment, he became something new. Kissing the Dead 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z She had originally developed the work using songs, but after the lighting designer Clifton Taylor introduced her to the society, she saw the potential in choreographing the fables to purely instrumental music. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Mira, who early in the novel works in a lamp store and attends a prestigious school for art critics — the first sign that this book is a fable — is clearly living in end times. ‘Pure Colour’ Seeks Answers About Love, Mortality and God 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The singer and primary songwriter of Portland, Ore.-based band The Decemberists often tackles lonesome, literary folk-rock fables about everything from Chinese trapeze artists to mariners stuck in the belly of a whale. Music Monday: The Decemberists' Long Live The King 2011-10-31T15:15:44Z The fable, being a fable, is predictable, but it’s also rough with holes and contrivances. Dance Review: ‘The Legend of Yauna’ Puts Its Hero Through Trials 2014-02-23T23:04:25Z Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately composed than most dollhouses, so no one should expect cinema verite in his latest fable. In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates 2012-05-18T10:04:09Z So begins the heart of this splendid fable. 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore': down the rabbit hole to magical technology 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z But “Joe Gould’s Secret” was also an elaborate defense of a pretty fable, one that Lepore calls “an act of deception.” What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z I was with a man who tried to marry me on the basis of outlandish fables. Michael Cohen and the pathological liars among us 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z So it's no surprise that the most plagued production of the Spidey fable was the stage version. This Is the Definitive Ranking of Every Single Spider-Man Movie 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Somehow framed as a fable of both communal cohesion and openness to strangers, “Shucked” has very little actual plot, and what there is, much of it borrowed from “The Music Man,” is rickety. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Diogenes’ odd little fable owes its material survival to the care of the five main characters, and in return it sprinkles its magic into each of their lives. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But all of them are interested in offering something other than comforting fables of finger-lickin’ harmony. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Among these are a hatred of tyranny, a love for animals and the English countryside, and a deep admiration for the satirical fables of Jonathan Swift. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z It's a really reassuring fable about how good it is to be mortal. Justin Cronin, Author of the Next Big Vampire Novel, The Passage 2010-06-11T08:25:00Z A similar conflict drove Nathanael West, in 1934, to publish the novel “A Cool Million,” which satirized the Horatio Alger bootstrap fables that remained popular into the Great Depression. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The fable facade is a deceptive precursor for a film that’s definitely not for kids. ‘The Djinn’ Review: A Boy Whose Wish Comes True 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z This fantastical writer, who completed her first, acclaimed novel at the age of 18, sows her modern-day stories in the fertile ground of ancient myths and fables. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Selick worried that after directing “Coraline,” making another humorously frightful fable centered on a young heroine would seem as if he were repeating himself. When Henry Selick and Jordan Peele Team Up, Things Get Wild 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Its characters have to be functions of the tract, and have worked best in poems, fables and morality plays created to accommodate such ciphers. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z Otherwise this is a fable about frustration and desire, about wanting things and not being able to have them. Cannes: A creepy, erotic retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" 2011-05-13T01:01:00Z A slew of wild fables about a witch, a human cannonball, and more. Review | ‘Big Fish’ looks for the truth in a father-son relationship 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The artist Len Shelley, who has died of cancer aged 46, was as much a maker of fables as he was a maker of boxed tableaux. Len Shelley obituary 2010-11-21T18:55:00Z “Here, in the guise of furthering a children’s fable, is the brand of witty, soaring musical score that is now virtually extinct on the stage,” Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1991. DVD: ?The 10th Victim? and ?The Phantom Carriage? on Video 2011-10-02T02:43:02Z Anthologies in the 21st century are led by Black Mirror, a show concerned with the telling of spooky, tech-related fables. Lame, lazy, lifeless: have TV anthologies lost their way? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z And despite their age, the fables remain remarkably fresh. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z Petit’s fable, based on a libretto by the playwright Jean Anouilh, contrasted the gentleness of the beast with the prejudice of a society that kills those who upset established order. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Take “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” Mitch Albom’s best-selling spiritual fable, and update it by sending five new people into the afterlife. 15 Years After ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven,’ Mitch Albom Says Who Comes Sixth 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Were you thinking of any other fables when you wrote it? Louise Erdrich on the Power of Stones 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Undine Music, movement and theater company Four Larks returns with this immersive fable inspired by tales of mythological sea creatures. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 12-19: Four Larks' 'Undine,' 'Chasing Mem'ries' and more 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z His zany, madcap first novel, “Holy Cow,” which follows the publication last year of “X-Files” co-star Gillian Anderson’s first novel, is a seriously entertaining fable that doesn’t take itself too seriously. David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In the scenes filmed outdoors in New Zealand, Bradshaw added that the high frame rate style had "immediacy and glitter" and brought "an almost documentary realism to the fable". Critics mixed on Hobbit film 2012-12-11T11:33:19Z Now on view in a handsome Spooky Action Theater production, directed by Helen R. Murray, Fréchette’s fable begins as a wry and suspenseful updating of the Bluebeard fairy tale. Review | Spooky Action Theatre’s ‘Small Room’ for patient fans of the offbeat 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z With the latest series, Sinclair and Blichfeld have smartly decided to return to the precision of the early episodes, allowing each half hour the structural flexibility to contain any number of concise New York fables. The Surprising Compassion of “High Maintenance” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z This is a fable about growth, and how people can change. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z This is the third film in the Russell-Lawrence-Cooper cycle of whimsical American morality fables, and by far the least of the three. “Joy”: Another Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper-David O. Russell holiday dramedy, and the sales pitch is getting creaky 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Nothing so obvious as motivations are offered for the sisters’ gruesome destinies, as Coppola renders their story as a fable of heightened adolescent longing and desire. Sofia Coppola on making The Virgin Suicides: 'When I saw the rough cut I thought: Oh no, what have I done?' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z When it was released in 1999, "The Matrix" was a stupendous, paradigm-shifting action fable, bringing all the explosiveness and scope of a space opera not merely to Earth, but into our cities and office spaces. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The animation imagery is unequivocally the good kind of distinctive, and it adds to the feeling of fable and wonder. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z In pieces large and small, f.marquespenteado uses textiles, embroidery, painting and collage to create a setting that is homey yet redolent of fable. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' as Latin-flavored art installation 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z There are no doubt many reasons why, but I suspect in choosing to tackle it first, the filmmaker loved its fables more. 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' too often overwhelms 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Beneath Mauritanian tents, a storyteller tells moral fables inspired by the oral tradition of Senegal's nomadic Fula people as children design artwork from desert sand. Malian music by moonlight seems far from country's woes 2013-11-27T11:27:16Z One is the Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi’s “Frankenstein in Baghdad,” a bitterly funny fable about a junk peddler who unwittingly creates a sentient monster out of the body parts strewn in the streets by explosions. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z A juicy David-and-Goliath fantasy and a hardheaded fable about hubris, “Beware the Gonzo,” the feature directorial debut of Bryan Goluboff, who wrote the screenplay for “The Basketball Diaries,” is something of a guilty pleasure. | 'Beware the Gonzo': ?Beware the Gonzo? - Review 2011-09-08T23:18:53Z That's a weird fable of work — you don't want to be in a crazy creative space. Some People Make Songs. Jack Antonoff Prays For Them. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “UFO in Her Eyes” is a political fable in which Mao Zedong’s ideals of enforced collectivization, when applied to Chinese capitalism, wreak havoc once the initial euphoria subsides. Movie Review: ‘UFO in Her Eyes,’ a Chinese Satire, at MoMA 2012-06-12T23:02:22Z But the second act is overstocked with teachable-moment monologues, fables illustrating the true meaning of love and marriage. Learning the words for love in ‘The Language Archive’ 2013-05-22T19:20:46Z The classical simplicity and depth of feeling in the Orpheus legend appealed to Gluck, as did the possibilities of expressing an impassioned fable through a balanced blending of music, words and dramatic narrative. Seattle Opera's 'Orpheus' is a love story for all time 2012-02-15T23:05:03Z Yet over the past few years, millions of viewers have flocked to the YouTube channel Dhar Mann to watch contemporary fables. The Moral Philosopher of YouTube 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The next night, she told the gloomy fable in the Villa Diodati to a rapt audience. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z A plot summary of “Rust and Bone” might suggest a maudlin, therapeutic fable of healing, and in many ways — or, let’s say, in hindsight — the movie is just that. Movie Review: ‘Rust and Bone,’ Starring Marion Cotillard 2012-11-22T22:47:22Z Ten nominations went to The Artist, the nearly wordless, black-and-white fable of a silent film star at the dawn of the talkie era. The Oscar Finalists: Silent Picture Double Feature 2012-01-24T19:13:28Z My mother liked to make cherry pie on Washington’s Birthday, a sweet honor based on the I-cannot-tell-a-lie fable. Perspective | To escape the winter blues, try seeing red — pomegranate red 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z As a theatrical lyricist of spare fables, his gothic songs of death and mean men with a "red right hand" have often carried a murderous gravity and narrative bent. In 'Lawless,' Nick Cave crafts a new murder ballad 2012-08-28T22:27:11Z Instead, Stridsberg combines second-person narration, screenplay dialogue, and acrostic poetry to build around her subject a pseudo-history—a fable set, partially, in locales that do not exist, among people who never were. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Whether writing for children or adults, he harnessed elegantly rhymed light verse to a gift for tall tales and fables and a fondness for twist endings and ever-expanding lists. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z Many of these little fables and ditties are, as the title suggests, about God, or matters concerning God. My Favorite Books of 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Until those moments “The Housemaid” generates intrigue partly by making you guess which movie it is going to become: the cruel psychological thriller, the comedy of upper-crust manners, the feminist fable, the erotic romp. Movie Review: Taking Up With a Maid Might Upset the Family 2011-01-20T22:00:38Z The film takes it as axiomatic that the Disney studio’s inspirational, song-studded children’s fables from the period were artistic masterpieces — the cartoon equivalents of “Citizen Kane” and “The Godfather” movies — that will endure into eternity. Movie Review | 'Waking Sleeping Beauty': Meeting Animators Behind a Decade of Disney Hits 2010-03-26T00:25:00Z But too often we get a curt fable instead, one more interested in outrage than possibilities for empathy. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z As tadpoles morph into frogs, and fears are conquered, “The Girl” delivers a satisfying, sun-dappled fable about the kindness of strangers and the cruelty of peers. | 'The Girl': A Summer-of-Awakening Fable 2010-09-17T06:06:00Z As they scheme and scream and suffer, the actresses go along with Mr. Snyder’s pretense that this fantasia of misogyny is really a feminist fable of empowerment. | 'Sucker Punch': Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be 2011-03-24T21:53:04Z Instead of the tale from Genesis, “Babel” substitutes its own sweeter spoken fable about gesture as the original unifying language, lost but potentially recoverable. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The story was based on the Hans Christian Anderson fable The Princess and the Pea and the show made a star of Carol Burnett. Freaky Friday author dies at 83 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It's a breakthrough of an entirely different kind, an injection of clear, cool European technique into a classic American fable of guns, cars, girls and money. Pick of the week: Ryan Gosling's dynamite heist thriller 2011-09-16T00:30:00Z But the reality is they often come to little more than a compression of fables. “Mad Men” eulogies: Don Draper, American anti-hero 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Eventually, “The Box” more or less abandons the fable, veering toward “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Little Red Riding Hood” for inspiration. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z The publisher describes Weiner’s novel as “a dark fable set in contemporary Manhattan ... about three people from two worlds who are on a collision course in pursuit of a beautiful child.” Matthew Weiner, the creator of 'Mad Men,' will publish a novel 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z But thanks to the stilted writing and stiff acting, the characters still feel very much like one-dimensional figures from a dutiful fable. | 'The Magdalene': A Married, Reimagined Jesus 2011-07-12T21:00:57Z They are just 25 of the thousands we met—in books, films, photographs, fables—and they’re here because, more than any others, they live in history—or fiction—together. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Guards at the Taj West Coast premiere of Rajiv Joseph's darkly comic fable about two men tasked with keeping watch over India's newly constructed Taj Mahal. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 11-18: 'Uncle Vanya' and more 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Translated by Stephen Snyder, the acclaimed Japanese writer’s fifth English release is an elegantly spare dystopian fable narrated by a novelist who hides her editor under the floorboards of her home office. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z His work is not hermetic, does not generally deal in fables or go in disguise. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z “The Starless Sea,” conversely, is an abstruse series of fragmented fables, interspersed with the saga of a present-day grad student who is a voracious reader and connoisseur of retro cocktails. 8 Years After ‘The Night Circus,’ Erin Morgenstern Has a New Novel 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z In the striking magic-realist fable “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye,” from Chile, a mother strives to prevent the death of her adult farmer son. Review: Short Films From Sundance, No Swimsuit Required 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z What, outlandish ancient fables tell us what to do about abortion? Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z I grew up with my grandmother’s folklore and fables, the oral storytelling traditions. Why Ethiopian director Yared Zeleke is generating buzz with 'Lamb,' his first film 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z If we were to revive the fable today in our media-dominated world, Baudrillard suggests, the map would have engendered the Empire, and “it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The original "Amazing Stories" was a ratings bust, but back then there were kids who loved its simple, family-friendly fables. The "Amazing Stories" reboot doesn't live up to its name, but it doesn't have to 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z The writing-directing debut for actor Ryan Gosling, this dark fable received a bruising reception when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last year. SXSW 2015: These six films could grab attention 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism. Books of The Times: ‘And the Mountains Echoed,’ by Khaled Hosseini 2013-05-20T22:26:11Z Middletown A woman moves to a small town and begins to uncover its secrets in the Southern California premiere of Will Eno’s fable. L.A. theater openings, April 23-30: 'An American in Paris,' 'Pericles' and more 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z There are hints of suffragettes, concentration camps, anarchy, wise witches and kind butchers, and the fable as presented here is a blend of brilliantly simple visual richness and a kaleidoscope of ideas. The Red Shoes 2010-08-03T20:45:00Z As this fable unfolds, the tiny Rothman’s bright spirit becomes the evening’s indispensable engine. A spirited ‘Secret Garden’ blooms at Shakespeare Theatre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z My favourite is one in which a lion, confronting Aesop, asks him to tell him a fable before the lion eats him. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z “Rocky” was the story of a Great White Hope, and also a fable for an era of racial backlash. Review: In ‘Creed,’ Rocky’s Back, as a Mentor, Not a Fighter 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z “The Suit” is a fable with live music about an African couple whose lives are altered by the presence of clothing left in their home by the wife’s lover. ‘The Suit,’ ‘Venus in Fur’ in next Seattle Rep season 2013-03-29T00:08:14Z |
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