American Masters Arthur Miller: Private Conversations

1985

Biography / Documentary / History / Music

IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 136 136

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Plot summary

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).

Director

Christian Blackwood Photo
Christian Blackwood

Top cast

John Malkovich Photo
John Malkovich as Self / Biff
Dustin Hoffman Photo
Dustin Hoffman as Self / Willy Loman
Stephen Lang Photo
Stephen Lang as Self - Happy
Arthur Miller Photo
Arthur Miller as Self - The Playwright
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747 MB
942*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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1.35 GB
1406*1074
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by petershelleyau

on the set of Death of a Salesman

This making of documentary, focusing on the set, as opposed to post-production of Volker Schlondorff's TVM adaptation of the Broadway stage version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, raises some interesting questions.Are making of documentary's to be used as marketing ploys to publicise product, or do they exist as historical documentation? And when should be they viewed - during or after the production is complete?Having watched this documentary after seeing the TVM was a different experience to seeing it before, and I wondered if my negative response to the documentary would be so heightened. As I saw it, Private Conversations is rambling self-indulgence and counter-productive to the intention of publicising the TVM. There are few interviews - only by Hoffman and Arthur Miller to-camera. Otherwise, we view rehearsals, alternate takes, goofs, and rushes screenings during production.The only interest comes from director Christian Blackwood's use of the model set as context for the scenes we see being filmed, the silhouette way Hoffman is presented, and his directing takes with Schlondorff's permission after suffering from his "green knot" in the stomach which is his sign that the work is sub-standard. We see Hoffman and John Malkovich without character make-up, and Tony Randall and Warren Beatty visiting the set.Hoffman confides that his empathy with the part of Willy Loman comes from the parallel with his family, where his father was also a salesman, and Miller attests that Hoffman is the perfect and first physical embodiment of how he envisaged the part, though Hoffman is, at the time, 15 years younger than the 60 year old Loman.
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