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  Review by ki 3

  i had to read this for ap lit and didn't. I also didn't watch this movie but i just wanted to update you on my lack of caring for 12th grade curriculum

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★ 1

  One thing I apreciate about Newman three stage adaptation is how little he tries to open up the plays. Of course, trying to openup The Glass Menagerie would be very conter-productive, but the ways he goes in the opposite direction and makes sure the apartment feels so vast, lived and haunted and yet so disconnect from the world. An abstracted space of repressed urges. That don't means it is not cinematic, far from it, Michael Ballhaus shot it and it feels as expressive as his best work and usual Newman editing time is great.It is far more subdued than most Williams adaptation gets. The performance are predictably great, particular John Malkovich and Karen Allen (and he is by his standards surprising non-mannered).

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  Review by DMK ★★ 12

  I just watched two indifferently directly film adaptations of The Glass Menagerie back to back. You probably can't ever imagine doing such a thing—at least not without the threat of grave bodily harm—but that's okay. We're all different people. Let's celebrate how mightily different we happen to be. For instance, I even temporarily joined another streaming service—one heretofore unknown to me called "Topic"—just so that I could watch this late 1980s version of Tennessee Williams' play, directed by Paul Newman. It was the final film he directed, and after watching it, I don't wonder why.

  Believe me... I'm pained to speak unfavorably of Newman's talents in any context, as I am what is known in our repugnant vernacular as a…

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  Review by Collin Taylor ★★★

  I watched this in theater class, and it's alright I guess. The performances are really good, but the story and script is lacking.

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  Review by Christofer Pallu ★★★★★ 2

  Breves notas para uma cadeira de teatro:

  1. The Glass Menagerie, de 1987, é a terceira adaptação cinematográfica da primeira peça de sucesso de Tennessee Williams. É também o último trabalho de Paul Newman como diretor.

  Partindo de Williams, somos atirados às ruínas do apartamento dos Wingfield, nos fundos de um prédio abandonado por uma decadente classe média durante a depressão, “contexto social” que a narração solene de John Malkovich nos apresenta após invadir o espaço pela escada de incêndio, exigência do autor para o set dos palcos. Um símbolo irônico em plena evidência, como o zoológico de vidro, como a fotografia “maior que a vida” do pai ausente, eternamente sorridente, que assiste impassível ao espetáculo de memórias desesperadas, o…

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  Review by Leoni ★★★

  Lol, the reviews for this film are all from bored kids who have been forced to study this play for English class. 

  This is a literary masterpiece you dumb kids *shakes fist like an old man*

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  Review by brifilms ★★★½

  I watched this for theater class and I think it could’ve been better but the performances are good, just a bit boring with the monotonous score. Paul Newman is a fairly solid director, it’s weird seeing John Malkovich with hair.

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  Review by Foco - Revista de Cinema

  À MARGEM DA VIDA, Paul Newman, 1987, por João Bénard da Costa.

  Para além dos registros filmados e “video-plays”, esta é a terceira versão cinematográfica de The Glass Managerie, a peça que impôs Tennessee Williams como dramaturgo - em 1945 - e lhe deu a celebridade mundial que se supõe conhecida. A primeira, de Irving Rapper, data de 1950.

  Em 1973, um ator - Anthony Harvey - assinou segunda adaptação, concebida (como nessa década se usou) em genuflexão à grande arte de Katharine Hepburn que, nos palcos e entre tantas Amandas lendárias (de Jessica Tandy a Helen Hayes) fora uma das mais aclamadas intérpretes do papel. Katharine é espantosa - é-o e foi-o sempre - mas talvez nesse como noutros…

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  Review by adelinetaylorh ★★★½ 2

  Together, like glass.
  
  Apart, like stone.
  
  A family dies together,
  
  and thrives when alone.

  - Brandon Hart, "A Smug Little Poem Because This Movie is About a Poet, Get It?"

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  Review by faith ★★★★

  i absolutely love the original play, and the fact that this adaptation is directed by paul newman <3333  but i felt it lacked heaps of substance???? anywayyyy paul newman and tennessee williams ily

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  Review by joaopabdala ★★★★★

  Os diálogos enormes, quase monólogos com a duração também enorme das cenas, a expressividade um pouco acima do tom, o modo como o cenário impera narrativamente (a fotografia do pai, os cristais, o livro de formatura, quando a luz parece acabar somente para que se crie um romance a luz de velas e que Jim mostre sua sombra crescendo na parede). Teatral? Somente se Gertrud for teatral. Uma das decupagens mais finas que já vi.

  
  
  

  Pela paixão do teatro e pela paixão do cinema, Paul Newman percorreu os caminhos que ligam um ao outro, neste filme em que ele é - de todos - o mais presente e o mais ausente.

  I'm the opposite of a magician stage, he gives you the illusion which has the appearance of truth, and I give you truth with the please disguise of illusion. E não é esse o trabalho do cinema? ou, antes, o da arte?

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  Review by Caedmon Fair ★½

  Meh screenplay, bad execution. 
  I like Tom’s character, but Amanda is one of my least favorite characters out of anything ever.