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O'Neill's ''Journey'' to greatness

Posted by:	WaymanWong 01:36 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	The whole "uncinematic" thing - AlanScott 05:21 pm EDT 08/14/14

Thanks, Alan, for the head's-up on this book. I love Sidney Lumet's film of ''Long Day's Journey'' and the cinematography of Boris Kaufman (who won an Oscar for ''On the Waterfront''). This is not a story that needs to be ''opened up''; what I love is the claustrobia, a family trapped and forced to deal with each other. Plus, there is that fog that envelopes them. But it's time for a new color film version. A shame they didn't make one of the 2003 Tony-winning revival with Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard. A new generation needs to rediscover it.

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re: O'Neill's ''Journey'' to greatness

Posted by:	AlanScott 04:14 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	O'Neill's ''Journey'' to greatness - WaymanWong 01:36 pm EDT 08/15/14

Yes, I was very sorry that they didn't preserve the 2003 production in some way (apart from a TOFT video). I didn't see it, I heard somewhat mixed things about it, but I'm sure it was well worth seeing.

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