Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet, please," announced the assistant director in discreet, nicely modulated tones. Griped a nearby veteran American technician: "If we were in Hollywood, he'd be saying 'Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep...
Great plays get made into movies, and successful stage directors go on to direct films. That...
...Musser's lighting is somewhat too active. John Duffy's opening A-minor music for brass, cymbals and kettledrums smacks too much of a Near East movie spectacular, but the later rustic music, in the traditional rustic key of F-major, is much better. When a lutenist appears on stage, though, we hear a harp; couldn't it at least be a guitar...
...most-touted-new-director of the age, Nichols repeatedly demonstrates that this is his first picture. Even his genius for fast-paced stage comedy (Luv, The Odd Couple, and Barefoot in the Park) can't be found in Virginia Woolf; possibly it got lost in poor attempts at fancy camerawork and cutting...
Otherwise, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? falls into familiar Hollywood traps. It comes across as a multi-collaboration lacking a strong central influence. The stage production was funnier, better-acted, and generally more important...