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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
Still, we were interested in gore. Though M just couldn't match the exhilarating poor taste of the murder scenes of Charade, still we could hope. After all, in a 1928 film the Spanish director Bunuel managed an extreme closeup of a razor slicing an eyeball. But in M peeling an orange with a switchblade is the goriest Lorre ever gets...
...book is a closeup of Kennedy as he faced what was to be the supreme effort of his life. White followed him through his triumphant campaign tours and through his less triumphant ones...
...film's richest asset may well be Rex Harrison, making capital of the closeup in his 1,007th performance as irascible Professor Henry Higgins, who masterminds the metamorphosis of the cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. Harrison still talks his songs and sings his dialogue in a triumph of stylized, polished acting that would be memorable with or without music. Another holdover from Broadway is Stanley Holloway, raffishly repeating his role as Eliza's father, a dustman-turned-moralist who speaks some of Shaw's most corrosively funny lines-wisely preserved intact-then stops the show with...