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Winters's critical style was comparable to that of F. R. Leavis, and in the same way he created a school of students (of mixed loyalty).His affiliations and proposed canon, however, were quite different: Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence above any one novel by Henry James, Robert Bridges above T. S. Eliot, Charles Churchill above Alexander Pope, Fulke Greville and George Gascoigne above ...
Yvor Winters' memorable prose is highly polished, formal, and exacting. He was a fine stylist and a strikingly scrupulous interpreter of literary artworks. He was often and sometimes still is mistakenly considered one of the New Critics because of his many careful readings of individual works of poetry, fiction, and drama.
In an unnamed U.S. city, the corrupt mayor William Dudley has allowed an oil refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. On one typically hot summer day, Herman Stover, a dangerously disturbed employee at the refinery, has been denied an expected promotion, and in addition, finds himself fired after refusing a departmental transfer.
Welch D. Everman, author of Cult Science Fiction Films, pointed to several homages in the movie to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. [2] The title itself is a reference to the Jack Arnold film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), and the final scene when a radio report advertises another trip to Saturn, thus hinting that another ...
Inland Empire is a 2006 experimental psychological thriller film [7] written, directed, and produced by David Lynch.Released with the tagline "A Woman in Trouble", the film follows the fragmented and nightmarish events surrounding a Hollywood actress who begins to take on the personality of a character she plays in a supposedly cursed film production.
$4,000,000 (rentals) [2] Penelope is a 1966 American comedy caper film directed by Arthur Hiller , and starring Natalie Wood , Ian Bannen , Peter Falk , Jonathan Winters , and Dick Shawn . George Wells ' screenplay was based on the 1965 novel of the same title, written by Howard Melvin Fast under the pseudonym E.V. Cunningham.
The movie casts Goldthwait as overgrown adolescent Fred Chaney, whose cruel stepfather (Dabney Coleman) is all too eager to force Fred out of the family stock-brokerage business.
Ada is a 1961 American political drama film produced by Avon Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was directed by Daniel Mann and produced by Lawrence Weingarten, with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman and William Driskill based on the novel Ada Dallas by Wirt Williams.