Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GUEST. The screen version of Harold Pinter's drama (The Caretaker) retains its major asset, Donald Pleasence, still seedily eloquent in the title role...
...LOVER by Harold Pinter, and PLAY by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple indulge in the aphrodisiac of a make-believe affair, while Beckett's trio reveal with solemn hu mor the banality of adultery...
...this point, The Servant earns A-l references. Playwright Harold Pinter, debuting as a scenarist, writes such deadly efficient dialogue that even talk about the weather sounds ominous. And Losey's camera works every angle, scooting upstairs and down, bobbing from floor to ceiling, peering over banisters. Like an evil-minded snoop, it catches all: every secret glance and unguarded gesture, every telltale truth. Only occasionally does the technique become selfconscious, with one too many shots into rain puddles or oval mirrors...
...Broadway production, Blood Knot sometimes echoes with echoes, and speaks in the voices of Genet, Pinter, and even the John Steinbeck of Of Mice and Men. But Atholl Fugard, a white South African, shuns preachments and never oversimplifies the human equation. His symbols are the kind that laugh, cry and bleed...
...GUEST. A rare performance by Donald Pleasence, repeating his stage role, enhances this film version of Harold Pinter's offbeat, ambiguous The Caretaker...