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...other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings, a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits. "Big and pretty, vigorous, thoughtful, this ?Hamlet? expands the story with helpful flashbacks; Yorick, Priam, Old Norway come alive as if from a vivid history book," Corliss notes. "The full version restores Shakespeare?s emphasis on court politics, with whispers of intrigue that establish Hamlet and Laertes as potential usurpers of Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Here he might be a Henry V who's gone just this side of bonkers." The movie...
...Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Bernard Herrmann: the Film Scores (Sony Classical). Remember the shower in Psycho? Hitchcock may have been the director, but it was the gruff, bluff composer Herrmann who brought the scene to vivid, shrieking life. Salonen eloquently states the case for this and seven more of Herrmann's best scores...
...suburban couple are paid a visit by friends who don't want to leave. Edward Albee's play may have seemed elusive back in the 1960s. But reincarnated by a fine cast (George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris), it proves to be one of the author's most poetic and vivid depictions of the dark at the bottom of the stairs...
Well, maybe they were what two famous women desired. Maria Eva Ibarguren Duarte de Peron kept her eye on the spotlight, her hand tightening around the cojones of power. And Madonna fought like hell for the right to incarnate, in one of the era's most vivid musical dramas, a woman whose career and notoriety mirror her own: model for steamy photos, singer on the radio, movie actress of disputed pedigree, sexual adventurer. In both these stars one can see the great goad of ambition, the ability to enthrall and outrage. So there's tabloid poetry in the fact that...
...greatest efforts of the symbolic imagination in all 20th century art, a sort of theatrum mundi, or world theater, in which the follies and tragedies of Europe, along with its pining for a utopian order on the very brink of its collapse, were given an unrelentingly vivid allegorical form...