Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Verdict,’ About a Down-and-Out Lawyer Fighting for Justice
R | 2h 9min | Drama | 17 December 1982 (USA)
When a director slows the action down and focuses on the actor, we see a nervous twitch here, a tremble of the chin there a multitude of subtle cues that give insights into a character’s emotional state. If done right, these long, unbroken shots can help viewers immerse themselves in the world that the filmmaker is trying to bring to life. This technique is used to near-perfection in the 1982 legal drama “The Verdict,” starring Paul Newman in perhaps his finest performance.
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Gunnel Lindblom, sensual star of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Silence,’ dies at 89 Tim Page Gunnel Lindblom, a Swedish actress and director who played small, indelible roles in some of Ingmar Bergman’s most celebrated early films and then a central character in the once-scandalous “The Silence” (1963), died Jan. 24 at her home in Brottby, northeast of Stockholm. She was 89. Her family announced the death and did not provide a cause. In Ms. Lindblom’s first movie for Bergman, she spoke only one line. She played a servant girl, described as mute, in “The Seventh Seal” (1957), Bergman’s international breakthrough. The apocalyptic story, based on the Book of Revelation and set during the years of the Black Plague, tells of a Knight (Max von Sydow) who bargains desperately for more time to be alive with the character of Death by engaging him in a game of chess.
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God’s Own Country, a bracing, taciturn 2017 movie that explores the raw relationship between two farm workers in rural Yorkshire, England, one of the leading men was nowhere to be found.
A sheep on the farm had gone into labour – and Josh O’Connor was assisting in the delivery. He and Alec Secăreanu fully immersed themselves for the roles, even clocking 12-hour shifts on local farms for three months, while working with gay director Francie Lee to imbue their roles with authenticity.
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Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. (IMDb)
Sean Penn played Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, US, in the 2008 biopic
What theater from Shakespeare to Amiri Baraka tells us about the Capitol mob
Some of us are allowed to take the law into our own hands; others of us know the law is always lying in wait
Lily Janiak January 12, 2021Updated: January 13, 2021, 10:52 am
Emily Stone (left) as Soothsayer and Lauren Hayes as Calpurnia perform in “Caesar Maximus,” We Players’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. Photo: Amy Osborne, Special to The Chronicle 2018
When I got the idea to turn to dramatic literature to help me parse the events of Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol, my first instinct was to dive into William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”