Word: realism
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...been acclaimed by film buffs as perhaps the finest achievement of Japan's most vigorously gifted moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...
...acceptability. But whatever the country and whomever it profits, a wheel is a wheel is a wheel. Production quotas must be met. Fear and pride make the Red executive an adept at the fine but dangerous art of cooking the books; thus there is more Potemkin fakery than socialist realism in Soviet statistics...
...fact, the situation is not much improved by anything. The Poets' production (directed by Miss Manning; designed with some competence by John Beck) is generally below Harvard standards, eschewing realism without attaining anything in particular, certainly not anything witty or apposite or authoritative. The staging is prosaic, dull, and clumsy (if Miss Manning has an analyst, she might ask him about her strange compulsion to make her actors stand in the down left corner with their backs to the persons whom they are ostensibly addressing). The acting ranges from close-but-no-cigar to indescribably painful. Eustacia Grandin, Stephen Aaron...
Motel automatically rises to the level of theatre when Siobhan McKenna speaks or moves or even stands in her contrapposto fashion, but against the cliche of line, improbability of story, and a pseudo-realism of cursing, bedroom scenes, and drunkenness, which make the characters less than two dimensional, she cannot possibly attain her usual brilliance...
Room at. the Top. A fine piece of social realism, translated by Director John Clayton from John Braine's novel about the ne'er-do-welfare state of Britain's Angry Young Men (TIME, April...