Watch the glass menagerie john malkovich biography
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“the glass menagerie” (1987) starring joanne woodward, john...
`Glass Menagerie' film honors its origins. Director Paul Newman achieves theatrical mood
EVER since I first read ``The Glass Menagerie'' as a high school student years ago, I've had mixed feelings about the idea of filming Tennessee Williams's first important play.
On the plus side of the argument, there's no reason why its poetic language shouldn't transfer smoothly to film, or why movie performers shouldn't have a field day with its brilliantly written roles.
Yet there's something risky about taking this delicate ``memory play'' and magnifying its fragile images via the impatient gaze of a camera.
``The Glass Menagerie'' is a drama of emotions long past and half forgotten, after all, and movies naturally confer a present-tense immediacy on the events they depict.
It's worth noting that Mr. Williams suspected even the proscenium stage might be too literal a milieu for this particular play.
To help ensure an impressionistic mood, he originally wrote ``T