The song has a certain theatricality about it that makes it very moving.
But movie love in this case also means a production more concerned with theatricality than with realism or biographical truth.
Beckett's less polished sketches seem to liberate cinematic ingenuity, where his more developed conceptions of theatricality can prove resistant to adaptation.
Whether it's the comic book theatricality of Lordi or the iconoclasm of Wimme, artists move naturally and easily outside established frameworks.
Transferred to film by Karel Reisz, with music by Michael Nyman, the cinematic framing of the image loses this sense of theatricality.
The movie, which runs two and a half hours, sometimes sags under front-loaded exposition, convenient plot lurches, and a conventionally ratcheted theatricality.
They are indeed, but there's a peculiar catch: The marvelous theatricality of the movie as a whole seldom extends to its central performance.
Though the images are often generic, the lead actors, whose tough-minded theatricality is second nature, convey the fear and the heartbreak behind the glossy artifice.
Gelb, who assumed the post of general manager in August, 2006, has sought to define his stewardship of the Met with two words: theatricality and openness.
To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.
Sir Clive Gillinson, head of Carnegie Hall, New York's main concert hall, thinks cinemacasts are a brilliant tool to promote opera with all its theatricality, though he warns that it will soon be a very competitive market as a dozen or so of the leading opera houses are likely to be doing it.
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