I had bought the tickets figuring it would be worthwhile no matter what. It was wonderful.
I'd read about the original production in Simon Callow's biography of Orson Welles and in Houseman's memoirs, and wished I could watch a production since, but alas, no luck so far.
I wish you a local production. As I was saying to shewhomust above, that should at least be the silver lining of it leaping back into relevance.
re: Tim Robbins' film, I had just one problem with it, and that's not about the central content at all; I thought his take on Welles had all the temper tantrums and none of the energy and charm that made people not just put up with him but do whatever he wanted them to do with devotion at that point.
That's fair. My major problem with it is idiosyncratic: I really mind that a movie with a majority of historical characters represented most of the Cradle cast under their own names but replaced Howard Da Silva with John Turturro's Aldo Silvano. I understand the character's Italian family gave the script an opportunity to address American fascism, but Da Silva was Midwestern Jewish and had really worked in a steel mill and identified strongly with Larry Foreman and was later blacklisted; it's not like there were no resonances there. Otherwise I remember loving the film and keep meaning to see it again.
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I had bought the tickets figuring it would be worthwhile no matter what. It was wonderful.
I'd read about the original production in Simon Callow's biography of Orson Welles and in Houseman's memoirs, and wished I could watch a production since, but alas, no luck so far.
I wish you a local production. As I was saying to
re: Tim Robbins' film, I had just one problem with it, and that's not about the central content at all; I thought his take on Welles had all the temper tantrums and none of the energy and charm that made people not just put up with him but do whatever he wanted them to do with devotion at that point.
That's fair. My major problem with it is idiosyncratic: I really mind that a movie with a majority of historical characters represented most of the Cradle cast under their own names but replaced Howard Da Silva with John Turturro's Aldo Silvano. I understand the character's Italian family gave the script an opportunity to address American fascism, but Da Silva was Midwestern Jewish and had really worked in a steel mill and identified strongly with Larry Foreman and was later blacklisted; it's not like there were no resonances there. Otherwise I remember loving the film and keep meaning to see it again.