On April 3rd 2003 the American weekly Variety announced that Harold Pinter would write the screenplay for the remake of “Sleuth”, the 1972 film based on Anthony Shaffer’s play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. The film was screened in cinemas in 2007 and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Michael
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Pinter the film smuggler
It was 1964. Harold Pinter was flying from London to New York for the premiere of one of his plays. By chance he was sitting next to Mr Mekas. Jonas Mekas, today ninety-six, is a living legend of cinema. A Lithuanian director, poet and artist, he became an American citizen and founded Film Culture magazine
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A party between chit chat and repression
“One evening I was at a party. I approached two young Turkish ladies who were having a conversation: ‘What’s your opinion concerning the tortures being inflicted in your country?‘ They looked at me amazed: ‘Tortures? What tortures?’ ‘Do you mean to say you don’t know that every day dozens of men are tortured in your
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“The Homecoming” by Peter Stein
“This is maybe Pinter’s darkest work, which confronts the profound difficulties and dangers marking human relationships and above all the precarious relationship between the sexes” This is how Peter Stein – the undisputed Master of theater of the second half of the 20th century – commented “The Homecoming” written by the Nobel laureate in 1964.
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