Example sentences for: hytner

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  • To demonstrate their growing closeness, Hytner leads the pair through jazzy swing-dance montages, along with scenes in which they hit each other with pillows (a common cinematic sign of a couple's closeness but not necessarily accurate; as an experiment, I hit my wife with a pillow, and she threw me out of the room).

  • Hytner doesn't overhype his images or call attention to his own directorial hand, as he did in The Madness of King George (1994) and The Crucible (1996).

  • The album is selling tepidly; the show's been picketed by victims'-rights groups and is under threat of more pickets by Puerto Ricans opposed to racial stereotyping; the opening's been postponed to the end of the month; and, depending on which rumor you believe, the director's either so complacent that he only bothers dropping by once a week or so dozy that he hasn't noticed he's been more or less replaced by Mike ( The Graduate ) Nichols, Nick ( Miss Saigon ) Hytner or, most recently, Jerry ( Guys and Dolls ) Zaks.

  • Hytner, an Englishman who made his name in theater (his 1994 revival of Carousel at the Lincoln Center had real weight and scope), hasn't figured out how to create intimacy with his characters on-screen or how to direct his actors so they expose themselves in the myriad microscopic ways stage actors can't.

  • Unanimous praise goes to The Madness of King George director Nicholas Hytner's staging of the gender bender, which breaks with the recent trend of interjecting gay subtext into the play.


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