Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. And Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is powerhouse talent on both sides of the family...
...allegories (Milk Train) in which symbols masquerade as wonders. Arthur Miller thumbs disconsolately through a three-hour "Dear Diary" (After the Fall), making moralistic marginal notes on his past. Edward Albee has been a ventriloquist rather than a voice ever since he lit that verbal holocaust between the sexes, Virginia Woolf...
...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...
...haven't seen or read the play, the movie affords a first look at a brilliant and, yes, revolutionary work. The dialogue and subject matter constitute a complete abortion of the Hollywood production code. And since Warner Bros. succeeded in getting a seal of approval despite obvious violations, Virginia Woolf may indicate another change in Hollywood's moral climate...
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...