Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regrets. On the final night, as he sat before a television screen with his family and the New York Times's James Reston, he said: "I don't suppose anybody will believe me now, but the truth is I'm pleased and relieved. Right now I'm drawing my first really relaxed breath in a year...
...screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop...
...answer is yes. The screen is indeed adequate to Shakespeare at his greatest-and Director-Actor Olivier's Hamlet is the proof. With this admirable filming of one of the most difficult of plays, the whole of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry is thrown wide open to good moviemakers...
...mental monologue. His lips move with the words only when he would think aloud. This device is worked even more deftly in Hamlet than in Henry V, and has already become as standard in movies as the closeup. Shakespeare's descriptive and narrative speeches are pictured on the screen, and by this device, Olivier sometimes even manages to enhance the language. Ophelia's description of Hamlet's "madness" (As I was sewing in my closet) gives the two of them a lovely passage of pantomime, never played before. Ophelia's drowning (There is a willow grows...
...time. In the strict sense, his films are not creative works of cinematic art: the essential art of moving pictures is as overwhelmingly visual as the essential art of his visually charming pictures is verbal. But Olivier's films set up an equilateral triangle between the screen, the stage and literature. And between the screen, the stage and literature they establish an interplay, a shimmering splendor, of the disciplined vitality which...