Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have always been expert at picturing cities, but Treasure excels most of them in the streets, park benches, eateries, bars and flophouses that are the backgrounds for its opening reels. The main characters make most so-called simple men in the movies look two-dimensional and sentimentalized. In the superb camera work (by Ted McCord), there is not one fancy or superfluous shot...
...Workshop's production of "St. Joan" last spring was one of the most successful plays over given at the College. Its five-day run, according to reviews, produced "some of the finest acting and most superb staging ever seen on the Sanders stage and probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard...
...acting is superb. Aldo Fabrizi, who plays the part of the farmer, brings to his part the sublety and delicate shading of real understanding which he previously demonstrated in Open City, and the rest of the cast are equally appealing. The handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...
...choral writing is superior to that in his more famous operas. As presented in Mr. Goldovsky's adaptation, the first act was highly conventionalized and contained too much plot exposition in the form of recitative--arias were scarce, in fact. The second act starts, however, with a superb aria and a duet, a brilliant quartet follows, and from then on the opera becomes what Mr. Goldovsky calls it, "unquestionably one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time...
...British). Carol Reed's film bogged down in allegory, but its first half was excellent and its portrait of a night city was superb (TIME, March...