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Hear me talking to you (cont’d)

October 18, 2018 by Terry Teachout

Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back to talk about Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place on his latest episode. Our hour-long chat is now available on line.

Titus and I spoke at length and in detail about the 1950 film, produced by Humphrey Bogart’s Santana Productions, which starred Bogart and Gloria Grahame and was very freely adapted by Andrew Solt from Dorothy B. Hughes’ 1947 novel of the same name. It is, in my opinion, Ray’s masterpiece, a movie that is universally and rightly regarded as one of the half-dozen greatest examples of the film noir genre even though it fails to conform to many of the stock conventions of noir filmmaking (about which we talk in the podcast).

Here’s part of Titus’ summary of our conversation:

Titus and Terry Teachout discuss In a Lonely Place, the 1950 Nicholas Ray noir, Bogart’s most daring performance—a movie with a modern feel, with sophisticated adult characters, men and women, who nevertheless suffer great misery. We talk about Ray’s talent for bending genre to tell stories that feel true to characters he establishes within genre. We also talk about film noir’s connection to tragedy, to post-war America, and to our own times….

To listen to or download this episode, go here.

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The original theatrical trailer for In a Lonely Place:

A scene from the film:

So you want to see a show?

October 18, 2018 by Terry Teachout

Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.

BROADWAY:
• The Band’s Visit (musical, PG-13, most shows sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Dear Evan Hansen (musical, PG-13, all shows sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Hamilton (musical, PG-13, Broadway transfer of off-Broadway production, all shows sold out last week, reviewed here)
• My Fair Lady (musical, G, most shows sold out last week, reviewed here)

OFF BROADWAY:
• Girl from the North Country (jukebox musical, PG-13, closes Dec. 23, reviewed here)

CLOSING SOON OFF BROADWAY:
• Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (drama, PG-13, closes Oct. 28, reviewed here)
• Uncle Vanya (drama, G, not suitable for children, extended through Oct. 28, reviewed here)

Almanac: Christopher Dawson on populism and ideology

October 18, 2018 by Terry Teachout

INK BOTTLE“In the war of ideas, it is the crudest and the most simplified ideology that wins. During our own lifetimes we have seen spectacular examples of this. We have seen great and highly civilized countries becoming infected by epidemics of ideological insanity, and whole populations being destroyed for the sake of some irrational slogan.”

Christopher Dawson, The Movement of World Revolution

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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