Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Harris, Sir John Gielgud, director John Ford and the contrasting personalities of the angelic Lillian Gish and the monstrous Bette Davis, who worked together for Anderson on The Whales Of August.An enjoyable and insightful film suggesting McDowell might write a great autobiography one day.
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
... in November 1960, with a cast that included Colleen Dewhurst, Aline MacMahon, Arthur Hill and Lillian Gish.But the play almost closed soon after its debut.Although most of the critics praised "All the Way Home," Coe recalled in a 1961 interview with The Times, the Thursday opening night box office -- $340 -- was so disappointing that a closing notice was put up for the following Monday.But...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... a good film to being a masterpiece. A tiny moment at the end, when the boy is given an apple by Lillian Gish, gets swallowed up on the small screen, but projected this simple gesture is transcendent. When Simon Callow's monograph on the film was published by the BFI, An excerpt:François Truffaut queasily likened The Night of the Hunter, actor Charles Laughton’s 1955 directorial debut,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... 1961 Pulitzer Prize for drama.The production, directed by Arthur Penn, featured Colleen Dewhurst, Lillian Gish and Arthur Hill. Set in 1915, it chronicled the struggles of a Tennessee family after the father is killed in an auto accident."Mr. Mosel has put together `All the Way Home' with tact and understanding ...," The New York Times critic wrote. "He has achieved what Agee ...
goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
My first foray is into his depressing tale of a forbidden, interracial love between a Chinese man and a white woman. Of course, it's so understated that it's possible to read it as a completely unreciprocated love. Richard Barthelmess, a great, unjustly forgotten actor, is very good as "The Yellow Man," but the film belongs to Lillian Gish, who works her closeups with dazzling skill.
