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...maturity recognizes that although his parents love him, he has no home at all, since their marriage has long been an unsuitable alternative to death. But Gilroy's plain, familial triangle rings with insight and trenchancy. His people live. His ear is as good as Harold Pinter's and, like Pinter, he can put two or three people in a room, start them talking and sustain long successions of commonplaces that never subside in their fascination. Pulling all this burlap to threads, he reweaves it into a fabric that is still coarse but made to last...
...GUEST. In this film version of Harold Pinter's drama The Caretaker, Donald Pleasence stunningly re-creates his stage role as a grubby, bigoted old derelict...
...GUEST. In this film version of Harold Pinter's offbeat drama The Caretaker, Donald Pleasence stunningly re-creates his stage role as a grubby, conniving, bigoted old derelict...
Director David Wheeler paces The Dumbwaiter very fast and packs a bit too much levity into it, so that transitions between ludicrousness and anxiety sometimes come off awkwardly. But neither mood overpowers the other, and the pulse of Pinter's story never misses a beat. Dustin Hoffman and Paul Benedict are well-matched as the brains-and-lummox partners; only Hoffman's antics occasionally smack of Kellogg's Cornflakes, and he tends to mix up his Cockney with Brooklynese...
...Wheeler directs The Room perfectly. He loses none of the mingled nonsense and horror in Pinter's writing and modulates the tension smoothly as it climbs toward a climax...