Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been chopped out of a Cunard liner. The Theater Center was opened in 1959. Its director is Paul Baker, once head of the widely acclaimed drama department at Baylor University. Among this season's productions are two new plays and such varied old ones as Robinson Jeffers' poetic drama Medea and Cole Porter's frolic...
...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett, reach depressing but strangely playful conclusions about infidelity-Pinter with mystifying urbanity, Beckett with poetic obscurity...
...Poetic justice is perhaps a bit oldfashioned, but it's fun. And so is practically everything else about this trite little thriller-especially Actress Davis. Exuberantly uncorseted, her torso looks like a gunnysack full of galoshes. Coarsely cosmeticked, her face looks like a U-2 photograph of Utah. And her acting, as always, isn't really acting; it's shameless showing-off. But just try to look away...
Olmi has directed his first feature film with a poetic, slowly-paced delicacy that reminds one of Truffaut; he handles the fumbling love between Domenico and Antonietta with a subdued richness of feeling that characterized the most subtle moments of Chayefsky's Marty. He focuses his camera on countless specks of life which we, as well as his own characters, have hurried past. And a potent, bottled-up vitality swells from under even the most mundane street scene or conversation. Declining the easy gimmicks of wierd camera angles or background music, yet nevertheless infusing his simple story with extraordinary emotional...
...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett, reach depressing but strangely playful conclusions about infidelity-Pinter with mystifying urbanity, Beckett with poetic obscurity...