Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film's most serious failure lies with the director, who also played the star. The reckless, feckless knight who personifies the pragmatic common man, a cross between barfly and gadfly, is one of Shakespeare's most captivating creatures. Falstaff's dark side is delineated believably and well by Welles, who frosts the screen with the chill of death when he stands shunned by his former companion, Prince Hal, become King Henry V. But the tragic moment of repudiation lacks substance and significance because the Prince and Falstaff have never been Shakespeare's "sworn brothers...
...underline the fat knight's tragedy, Welles has ignored the light side of the pun-prone, fun-filled roisterer. Falstaff describes himself as "not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Not, apparently, in Welles. What ultimately makes this Falstaff ring false is a lack of comedy in the Bard's most comic creation...
...Cervantes' classic, a Spanish "knight" fights a windmill-and loses. In Henry Livings' farce, a British nit challenges a boiler-and the boiler loses...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brief, brutal encounter on a subway train that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching around a curve...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time it is LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brutal brief encounter in the subway that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching through a curve...