Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fable escapes from rope ties, chains and handcuffs, too. Typically, he invites members of the audience up on stage to put him into these restraints; then they sit back while he gets out of them, often in less time than it took them...
...trouble has been greatly aggravated by Carter's televised assault on the oilmen who oppose his energy program as profiteers out to "rob" American consumers and stage "the biggest rip-off in history" (TIME, Oct. 24). Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as an indication that Carter may after all be an antibusiness Georgia populist rather than the fiscal conservative he has often seemed. Says Frank Borman, the former astronaut who now heads Eastern Air Lines: "He is casting suspicion on business in general, and that is unfortunate. He doesn't have...
Equus is an even more tedious movie than it had to be. Usually an energetic film maker, Director Lumet (Network) seems to have thrown up his hands on this one. He shoots Shaffer's original stage script as is, to the point of having characters address monologues directly to the camera. The play's gory climax-the blinding of six horses-is rendered realistically, not mimed as it was onstage. Rather than enhance Equus, Lumet's fidelity to the text accentuates every flaw...
...exchanges between Equus 'antagonists are scarcely more exciting. Firth's performance, seemingly so natural in a theater, looks artificial in closeup. Burton provides a curiously bland Dysart who lacks the high-pitched emotional constipation that both Anthony Hopkins and Alec McCowen brought to stage productions. Lumet tries to save the day by flooding Burton's speeches with melodramatic lighting and music, but no such makeshift remedy can cure Equus of its congenital limp. - Frank Rich
...Short Eyes's neck. And the film concludes by simply reversing the direction taken by the camera at the outset of the movie, this time following a young Puerto Rican out of the prison amidst jeers from his abandoned lovers in the penitentiary. Crafted for a theater's stage, Short Eyes as a movie remains a gut-wrenching work to watch, and despite its flaws, the promise shown by Pinero's script should make moviegoers think twice before passing up the film...