By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, February 11 , 1939P. 13 A lady from Chicago tells us that the moving picture version of "Robin Hood" bored her to insanity.
The New Yorker, September 21 , 1935P. 13 A terrible thought came to us while we were watching the moving picture version of "Anna Karenina".
By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, September 21 , 1935P. 13 A terrible thought came to us while we were watching the moving picture version of "Anna Karenina".
The motion-picture version of "My Sister Eileen," coming on top of first the stories (which I wrote) and the play (which two other people wrote), has served completely to addle my memory if not my wits.
A motion-picture version of L'Espoir that Malraux produced and directed in Barcelona in 1938 was not shown in France until after the country's liberation at the end of World War II.
He later played Lear in Peter Brook's motion-picture version of King Lear (1971) and Tobias in A Delicate Balance (1973), written by Edward Albee and directed by Tony Richardson, from the Albee play.
She repeated that role in Olivier's motion-picture version of Othello in 1965 and further appeared with the National Theatre in such roles as Silvia in George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer (1963).
The letter went on to explain, "We are planning a motion-picture version of "Dana's Four Years Before the Mast" and want to make it as accurate as possible".
The crude powerhouse "The Last Castle" is an action-picture version of "Brubaker," the prison-reform social drama that allowed Mr. Redford to shake up the penal system while retaining a movie-star supercoiffure.
And it was this sense that such documentaries were didactic and instructional – a moving-picture version of the National Geographic magazines that were also often to be found pinned to the walls of classrooms – that was one factor in the demise of such window-on-the-world films.
By Ruth McKenney The New Yorker, January 9, 1943 P. 19 The motion-picture version of "My Sister Eileen," coming on top of first the stories (which I wrote) and the play (which two other people wrote), has served completely to addle my memory if not my wits.
