Word: hogarthian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moll Flanders has the high spirits and Hogarthian texture of its ribald predecessor, but lacks Tony Richardson's slashing satire and bold cinematic style. Nonetheless, Director Terence Young (Dr. No, From Russia with Love) proves that the beast in men brings out the best in him-and in Kim Novak as Moll. Her performance as an easy-to-bed beauty for whom the flower of virtue lies ever beyond a thicket of thorny vices is not so much well played as well endowed, but it does reveal untapped energy in one of Hollywood's most marketable natural resources...
...JONES. Merely the best comedy in years. A lusty lad's progress through 18th century England is sometimes Hogarthian, always hilarious, and acted to the hilt by Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith and supporting company under the masterful direction of Tony Richardson...
...portrait amuses but it also macerates. Richardson is angrier than Fielding was, and he sharpens the author's satire to a cruel point. His scenes in the London slums are brief but harrowingly Hogarthian: and Squire Western's hunt explains more powerfully than words could possibly explain the senselessness and horror of blood sport. Mile after mile the chase goes on: the running deer all terror and loveliness, the men and the dogs all grinning the same blank, murderous, animal grin. Then all at once the deer collapses. Blood in their eyes, the men and the dogs fall...
...single year of production. His first plate was done in 1886, when he was only 26, and shows an amazing early technical mastery. By the end of that year, Ensor had ranged in motif from a fine-line portrait of the Swedish botanist Frise to a haggard, almost Hogarthian satire on historical painting in the grand manner, entitled Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouff, Celebrated Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela. In it, the learned doctors peer into the royal chamber pot for omens...
...Long Row to Hoe makes no mawkish attempt to glorify poverty, but it is crammed with woods lore and river-rat doings that Billy might well have missed had his family been prosperous ; after all, few of the more sheltered boys got to know Mountain Mouse, the Hogarthian local whore. With a passionate hunger for education, Author Clark eventually made it to the University of Kentucky, is now a freelance writer. Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around...