The Night of the Iguana
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Movie Reviews of The Night of the Iguana
Movie Review: Best Williams, Best Burton, Best Huston
Summary: 5 Stars
A gorgeous film, powerfully acted and directed, and probably William's best script for the stage if you consider that here for the first time we have a play about women who are adjusted to the world and have a chance. "Streetcar" which is a better play in some ways, nonetheless is about maladjustment, neurosis, and death. It may a great tragedy, but it is not about living in the world and finding happiness. This one is. Hannah, the spinster, and Maxine, earth mother, have both found peace on their own terms. Shannon, the defrocked minister turned has-been tour guide, has also found a way to cope. At the end of the play we believe there is a future for them all. The play is suffused with a life-affirmation that is absent from much of William's writing. It is a grand, sprawling epic, not one of these tidy little 70-minute one-acts today's playwrights call full-lengths. Here, as directed by the great John Huston, we are deep into Puerto Vallarta, that Mexican oasis far away from the Texas border with its busy-bodies, baptists, and worldly responsibilities. Sex and rum-cocos are not metaphors down south, so Williams writes full out, in what finally is a celebration of survival.Movie Review: One of my top 10
Summary: 5 Stars
John Huston at his finest.
"Treasure of Sierra Madre" and "The Night of the iguana" are now, to me, his best. But he has so many great classic movies. Here we have a stellar cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gadner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, in a Tennessee Williams play. The scenery: beautiful Mexico (again, as in the title mentioned above).
The subject: the Law and the Spirit of the Law. Believing (in something/someone) and carrying on without thinking of it.
As Shannon (Burton) puts it, we live on two levels: the fantastic one and the realistic one. Deborah Kerr later says, living on the realistic one is doing what one has to do.
This movie is a gold mine for those to want to explore the spiritual realm, and at the same time, can check on his church's spiritual health by comparing it to the one represented in the ladies from Corpus Christi, on their tour of Mexico. Does your church apply the Law only? The Spirit only? Or is it a balanced (w)holly (old & New Testament; God-Jesus-Holy Spirit) church?
Magnificent acting.
Humor.
Beautiful landscapes.
Masterpiece
Movie Review: We've All Passed Through This Kind of Night
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a film that never ceases to reveal a new insight everytime I watch it. Richard Burton's spiritually tortured "Shannon" is a compelling mix of despair, dark-humor, and humanity. He's a man full of longing - but for what? Deborah Kerr's performance is understated, subtle, and in possession of a moral truth of startling clarity. Sue Lyon IS "Lolita." She's amazing - and certainly one of the era's most under rated actresses. Then there's the divine Ava Gardner. She makes the role of Maxine - which Bette Davis played on Broadway - a force of nature. In fact, Gardner's performance is so electrifying that she utterly erases the line between acting and reality. "The Night of the Iguana" poses questions which force us to re-evaluate some of our most deeply held beliefs. What is love? What is a man? What is a woman? What is living? You have to pass through The Night of the Iguana before the answers (which may not be your own) begin to unfold. Not only is this Hollywood at its best, but it's also the great John Huston's directorial genius is full bloom. A PERFECT FILM.Movie Review: Perfect film of a perfect play
Summary: 5 Stars
TNOTI, DVD was in mint condition and redone so the quality of the film was excellent, The DVD had priceless special features, film of the shoot of this magnificant film at Ms. Malloyse in Mexico,by John Huston and stars, Burton, Gardner, Kerr, Lyon with a cast of equals,along with a set visitor of Cleopatra(Liz Taylor, Burton's main squeeze).I am a novelist and screenwriter and use this film as a guide as I use other films, Casablanca, On The Waterfront, Reds,The Hours. Would highly recommend this classic film in the excellent form I got it, promptly,to everyone who loves great uplifting drama, that inspires a cleansing awe and deals with the dark (and light) side of life, with the raging imbalance between conscious and unconscious minds. It is film like this that is not done anymore,and for any lover of film works, this is a "must get" DVD
Edward A, Nagel
Movie Review: Huston's Gem from Mexico
Summary: 5 Stars
What a blessing Huston provides with this film beautifully shot in Mexico. It is so superbly cast and the script so content-rich that it is a gem for the collection, as it keeps giving and giving, easy to watch over the years as it was the first time to see. Richard Burton plays a defrocked priest in a humorous downward spiral who redirects a tour bus full of uptight Christian women to a run-down, off-season hotel owned by the magnificent, wildcat Ava Gardner in easily her best role. Also in play is Deborah Kerr as a traveling artist, who ties Burton to a hammock near an iquana Gardner has tethered for dinner. Along the way, Huston employs this delicious, intelligent script to captivate you, as well. My favorite Burton film, just because it is so warm, funny, and ultimately, sweet.