Symphony Fantastique
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Even The Record Album Designs Are over The Top! LOL!
Posted on 06/23/2010 3:58:22 AM PDT by billorites
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How could you not mention one of the better movies in the genre, The Glenn Miller Story? Technically, The Buddy Holly Story would also count.
While we're at it, the Joaquin Phoenix portrayal of Johnny Cash has much to recommended it.
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My parents took me to see this movie when I was probably 12 or so. My parents exposed me to quite a bit of questionable culture (I tend to now have odd, eclectic taste, but I wasn't terribly scarred).
This Ken Russell movie has never been made available on DVD, which is great crime. It's over-the-top, and it's bad history, but it is a remarkable movie.
The author's very interesting sweet-and-sour critique made me want to see all those old "composer" movies over again...along with a box or two of Milk Duds and a grain of salt.
Leni
That's a good thing because you develop an open-minded appreciation for stuff. It's often the questionable stuff in art, music and literature that we remember from our youth.
The only material that I really feel like protecting my children from is the graphic sex and super-realistic violence. Otherwise, everything else is fair game.
They may not forgive me for dragging them to Peter Sellar's operas though.
Really nice post billorites.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Love_(film)
If you can find it.,..Song of Love with Katherine Hepburn playing
Clara Wieck Schumann.
Mr. Sawhill doesn’t like much, does he? He must have been paid by the word to write this lengthy, pointless bilge.
Amadeus is one of my top-five all-time movies.
I treasure the music, which is expertly performed. I’m rather less impressed with the drama there. No knock on the performances, but Milos Forman to me is very overrated and the text simply isn’t true enough to overlook.
Anyone see the recent Bobby Darrin biopic?
Nobody has made a movie about Hector Berlioz yet. His could be a totally cool Psychedelic surreal head trip and could be called “Symphony Fantastique”.
Artsy Fartsy! LOL!
“They give us a Tchaikovsky who’s a queeny hysteric, a morally reprehensible narcissist”
Which is to say, a typical fag.
On a more highbrow note, this is an excellent article.
Berlioz...yes! That would be worth a lot.
However...much like the Johnny Cash film, I’m not sure a movie can do justice to the man. If anything the Cash movie was understated and Berlioz’s life would have to be downplayed a bit, also, or else it would look just simply over the top....
Russell went even farther with his campier instincts in his ultra-flamboyant, notorious 1975 Lisztomania, which proposes Liszt as a bare-chested glitter-rock icon. I didn't enjoy it as much as The Music Lovers, but it's certainly worth searching out. Full of nudity, disco-ready renditions of Liszt's music and S&M fantasy sequences, the film comes — for better and worse — as close to The Rocky Horror Picture Show as any composer-biopic ever has. It's also true to the general outlines of Liszt's life, as well as amazingly shrewd about the nature of tabloid stardom.
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