Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because "In the Name of the Father" is based on Gerry Conlan's memoir, Proved Innocent, it does not have an idyllic tone. No one is glorified in this movie. Gerry is stubborn and immature throughout, and Gareth cannot control herself in court. She screams at the judge and the witness about the injustices her clients have suffered...
...Name of the Father" successfully presents a shocking, contemporary tragic drama without employing the fabricated tone of so many recent courtroom films. Director Jim Sheridan expertly captures the emotional passage of time of the film's main character, the wrongfully accused Irish prisoner Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis...
...theatrical piece a more cinematic feel, Guare (who wrote the screenplay) and Schepisi forfeit some of the humor inherent in direct declarations to the audience. Thus, the dramatic aspects of the work leave the most lasting impression in the film. Whereas the comedic "dialogues" with the audience convey the tone of the play, it is the intensely powerful and haunting conversation between Ouisa and Paul which succeeds most gloriously in the film...
...contemporary production of a Joe Orton play is usually surrounded by a number of discussions which generally contain the words "censorship," "propriety," and "homosexuality." These discussions often assume an intellectual tone which rarely escalates to the level of heated debate to which they did in England in the 1960s, when Orton wrote his plays. What was perhaps revolutionary then seems somewhat silly now. I do not mean to suggest that the issues which Orton's plays confront, namely censorship, propriety and homosexuality, have in any way abated--hardly. Instead, they have become much more complex and have moved into different...
Time to think again. Under Dohnanyi, the Cleveland has become the best band in the land. No other American orchestra can rival its combination of virtuosic technique, consummate ensemble playing and rich, burnished tone, especially in the Central European repertory of Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms. It has also successfully branched out to opera: last month's dazzling concert version of Wagner's Das Rheingold, continuing a Ring cycle that is being recorded by London/Decca, was as fine a performance as one is likely to hear outside Bayreuth or the Metropolitan Opera...