Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand whenever possible at the small group on either side. He seemed caught in the middle in more than one way, however, since the violins and cellos often disagreed on the tempo, the one rushing ahead of Hathaway and the other lagging behind. For the rest the performance was superb--the parts all meshed and precision triumphed over muddle. The programmatic aspect of the music (each movement represents a scene, such as the awakening of Corelli by the muses) was forthrightly but tastefully exploited, creating an atmosphere without making the piece into some kind of caged antique beast...
...have no sympathy for members of the audience who hissed the rough (but wholly unharming) treatment given a live cat in one scene; it is a superb cat and doubtless can go at least eight more performances...
Then came sophomore Tim McLoone, who has been superb in his last four races and has contributed heavily to the Crimson's late-season spurt. He was followed by Baker, Joe Ryan, and Dick Howe...
Russell Harlan's color photography is dreadful--the blues and greens are hopelessly washed out--and for this I suspect we can again blame Mr. Hill, since Harlan has done superb work on other films, most notably Hawks' Rio Bravo. Hill's inability to fill the screen with anything attractive, let alone relevant, is Hawaii's coup de grace. Movies have survived mediocre scripts, but Hawaii is as cinematic as a fly preserved in amber, and that's the kiss of death...
...state of nature and fill the giant screen with impressive outcroppings of what Hawaiians call papaia. What's more, the principals play with aplomb. Julie Andrews brings both sensuality and sensibility to a role that might easily have wallowed in sweetness and light. And Von Sydow is superb as the parson. He plays him larger than life: as a personification of the historic battle between the Puritan psychosis and the natural man, as a Parson Davidson who encounters, instead of Sadie Thompson, Mother Nature herself...