Word: obsessional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I would probably have missed the record altogether, had it not been for my Thomas Pynchon obsession, which ciliated the following postcard from my good buddy Kraz the drummer, then a freshman at Cornell:
Under Capricorn rises above most previous Hitchcock largely because it deals with neurosis and obsession. The advent of these themes in Hollywood during the late forties and fifties led to masterpieces from most of America's greatest directors: Hawks's Red River. Sirk's Written on the Wind. Ford's...
John Osborne's obsession, his master theme and his greatest gift to the theater are one and the same-himself. When his nerves begin humming like high-tension wires, when he takes his emotional temperature every other minute, when he steps into the spotlight and throws a nightlong temper...
This dramatization of John Galsworthy's sequence novel of a large, nouveau-riche English family begins in 1879, and carries them through 50 years - and 26 weekly installments - of scandal, true love, success and misunderstanding. The series, with Kenneth More, Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter, became a "national...
What distinguishes The Forsyte Saga from Peyton Place and the Secret Storm is its distinguished origins and its careful preparation. The BBC bought rights to the saga from MGM, then Producer Donald Wilson and four writers spent more than a year turning out an adaptation that is remarkably faithful to...