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October 14, 2005
6 of one, a full Pinter of the other: David Hare on orthodoxy and the Nobel
Playwright, gadfly and The Hours screenwriter David Hare ventilates liberally over Harold Pinter's Nobel and scatters shots nicely throughout: "Two last things. The lazy Time Out-driven orthodoxy of the past few decades has been that the British cinema has never outgrown its dependence on the stage, and that until we develop a separate cinema culture our films will remain too literary and parochial. In fact, the reverse is the truth - that without the contribution of stage dramatists, actors and directors (Stephen Frears and Mike Leigh, for instance), the British cinema would barely have existed at all. Nobody more perfectly exemplifies the mastery of both media than Harold - who managed during the decade of his greatest fertility in playhouses also to produce the flawless screenplays for Joseph Losey's films of The Servant and Accident." [More and more at the link.]
Posted by pride at October 14, 2005 12:38 AM
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