Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather callous to talk about theatre (or anything, for that matter) in terms of numbers, but in a way this production lends itself to such treatment. Director Christopher Arnold has been pretty callous himself in his handling of these two fine Israel Horovitz plays, and I am still in the mood of the evening he created...
Finian's Rainbow--A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...
...Lion in Winter--Pretension unleashed, most notably that of Anthony Harvey, the director, who seems bent on doing everything as conspicuously as he can. Neither Peter O'Toole nor Katharine Hepburn gives much of a performance in this cumbersomely filmed version of James Goldman's play, which was unconvincing to start with. At the PARIS CINEMA, 841 Boylston...
...Hole in the heart of Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley's filming), suggest strongly that the first American film-makers willingly demanded a verisimilitude unknown to most of today's artists. Brownlow quotes the great French director Abel Gance (La Roue, Napoleon...
...forces that drew these early film-makers to their calling with such a vengeance serves as example, justifying to an extent our own feelings that proper values can be restored, that we must take chances to put conviction in our own films and, as Karen Morley said of her director, King Vidor (in Our Daily Bread), that we must learn to think with our eyes...