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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769796055
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769796052
Label: Kultur Video
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 73385
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 16, 1976
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Blythe Danner gives a luminous performance in this Tennessee Williams classic. Eccentricities of a Nightingale has an interesting history: it is actually a rethinking of Williams's own play Summer and Smoke (viewers familiar with that work will notice that the setting and character names are the same). Williams preferred Nightingale, and it is easy to see why--the play is at once gentler and more direct than the other. Danner plays Alma, a typical Tennessee Williams heroine, too delicate for this world. Alma is shy and mannered, with an artistic temperament that her joyless father does his best to suppress. She is in love with the boy across the street, the dashing John, but of course in Williams's plays these things are never easy. Danner does a brilliant job of being true to Alma's fragility while still keeping her likable, and Frank Langella endows John with such a warm heart that it's hard to blame him for anything that happens. This excellent production is a pleasure to watch, and Williams's grace of language gives it a crystalline beauty in spite of its shocking ending. --Ali Davis
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Rating:  -
Tennessee Williams often said that the character of Miss Alma in this version of his play was his favorite. Williams usually used his outstanding heroines as his writers voice and this is his most magnificent effort in my opinion. It is not marred by the melodrama of other works or the sheer tawdriness (exploited by film makers) often associated with his 1950's productions.
I wanted to address this to the reviewers here who thought this piece was somehow dated. It isn't. This is a play ... Read More
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I never received this, and believe it was shipped to my old address. Nor have I been informed that a refund was issued. Lloyd Hereman
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A prim and proper delicate flower maid, obsessed with affection for the young handsome Doctor, tries to land him in the matrimony net, but alas the harder she tries the more she fails.Well how about a one night stand ? Well he thinks," not a good idea ". Well many moon-years later in the same park, on the same nght (the 4th of July) the young maid (not too young any more) makes contact with a younger hombre and away they go. "If at first you don't succeed, try try, again ? For a Broadway Archive production, ... Read More
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Written in 1964, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, like several other Tennessee Williams plays, focuses on a neurasthenic young woman for whom time has stood still. Unmarried, Alma Winemiller fails to belong to the local society of Glorious Hill. Though she is a singer and teaches music, her exaggerated gestures and her personal tics make her an object of pity and even mockery within the town, and her minister father often reprimands her for her peculiarities, which he believes reflect badly upon his position. ... Read More
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Outstanding performance by a luminous Blythe Danner and a wonderfully underplayed Frank Langella. We enjoyed this much more than "Summer and Smoke".
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