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ustinov: sorry lot of stevedores
…In his work as mime, Peter Ustinov’s ear was constantly tuned to subtleties of accent and word usage. “The American language,” he said, “is still in the process of formation. It’s being added to every year by the influx of … Continue reading
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ustinov: everybody’s talkin’
…Peter Ustinov’s first three plays were produced while he was in military service during World War Two. House of Regents, a story of Russian exiles, reached the stage largely because James Agate, the waspish but influential critic of the Sunday … Continue reading
Ustinov in the army: not combat ready.
…At nineteen Ustinov got a job at The Player’s Theatre, doing a comic skit called The Bishop of Limpopoland, which dealt with an Anglican bishop who had been to Africa so long that he couldn’t imagine anyone not being able … Continue reading
PERSONALITY CRISIS: VAMPIRES & INSUPERABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND POSSIBILITY
“In Persona the stunning sensuous-mouthed Liv Ullmann plays Elizabet Volger, an actress who suddenly, during a performance, gets an overwhelming desire to laugh. (She’s acting in a tragedy, so the laughter seems inappropriate to her) And after she gets the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Fish, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, Bibi Andersson, Bruce Kawin, Bryant Frazer, Buck Theorem, Daniel C. Shaw, Daniel Shaw, David Bordwell, David Lynch, David Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Holly Hunter, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Orlan, Robert Boyers, Rumi, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, Sven Nykvist
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A COSMOS DEVOID OF ABSOLUTES
”Antonioni’s breakthrough masterpiece, L’Avventura, paints an austere picture of late modernity. If Stanley Cavell is correct to say that the cinematic apparatus delineates a world that transcends beyond the framed canvas of the traditional painted image (that is, we wonder what … Continue reading