Stage success, screen failure

By Saul Austerlitz

Globe Correspondent / September 16, 2007

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It's hard to picture Bertolt Brecht thriving in the collaborative process endemic to filmmaking. Much like such other legendary authors-turned-screenwriters as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, the German playwright-poet could never quite assimilate himself to the demands of the medium; and, like Faulkner, never entirely wanted to. The Criterion Collection is releasing in a highly informative two-disc collection Brecht's ... (Full article: 1260 words)