The 10 shortlisted films in the Oscars Best Animated Short category include four from major U.S. studios and a number of international entries.
The category also contains a couple of straightforward commercial shorts designed to amuse and charm, and a few experimental ones that at times border on the surreal.
These 10 will be narrowed down to five with the nomination voting from March 5-10. This is the second in TheWrap’s guide to the shortlisted films in all three shorts categories. Read the guide to the shortlisted short documentaries here.
“Burrow” (Pixar)
“Burrow”
Director: Madeline Sharafian
The first of two Pixar films on the shortlist is a guided tour of all the things that live underground, courtesy of a rabbit who is looking for his own home. To the strains of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” the bewildered and intimidated bunny encounters bugs, badgers and a whole menagerie of burrowing...
The category also contains a couple of straightforward commercial shorts designed to amuse and charm, and a few experimental ones that at times border on the surreal.
These 10 will be narrowed down to five with the nomination voting from March 5-10. This is the second in TheWrap’s guide to the shortlisted films in all three shorts categories. Read the guide to the shortlisted short documentaries here.
“Burrow” (Pixar)
“Burrow”
Director: Madeline Sharafian
The first of two Pixar films on the shortlist is a guided tour of all the things that live underground, courtesy of a rabbit who is looking for his own home. To the strains of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” the bewildered and intimidated bunny encounters bugs, badgers and a whole menagerie of burrowing...
- 2/25/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Frank Moreno, who was known for screening films at Cannes for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures to purchase and distribute in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, died Wednesday in Florida. He was 82 and died after a brief battle with cancer, according to his daughter.
Moreno was a promoter for such Art films as Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers and Federico Fellini’s Amarcord, both the biggest US grossing pictures of the directors’ careers up to that point.
He also touted Volker Scholondorff’s The Tin Drum, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1980; Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant; Fantastic Planet, the winner of numerous animated awards; and Bergman’s The Magic Flute.
In addition, Moreno acquired and distributed many mainstream commercial pictures, including The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts; managed theater circuits, including one out of Florida; and was a consultant to movie producers,...
Moreno was a promoter for such Art films as Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers and Federico Fellini’s Amarcord, both the biggest US grossing pictures of the directors’ careers up to that point.
He also touted Volker Scholondorff’s The Tin Drum, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1980; Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant; Fantastic Planet, the winner of numerous animated awards; and Bergman’s The Magic Flute.
In addition, Moreno acquired and distributed many mainstream commercial pictures, including The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts; managed theater circuits, including one out of Florida; and was a consultant to movie producers,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
“Game of Thrones” star Iwan Rheon, Jack Wolfe (“The Witcher”), Asha Banks and Amir Wilson (“His Dark Materials”) have joined Roland Emmerich’s production of “The Magic Flute,” a modern retelling of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s popular opera.
The pic is set to begin principal photography on Feb. 8 at Bavaria Studios in Munich.
Starring alongside the young British actors will be some of the world’s most renowned opera stars, among them French soprano Sabine Devieilhe, Mexican-French tenor Rolando Villazón and U.S. bass Morris Robinson.
Directed by Florian Sigl, “The Magic Flute” is set in present-day Europe and follows 17-year-old singer Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
Wolfe, who began his career at London’s National Theatre and has appeared...
The pic is set to begin principal photography on Feb. 8 at Bavaria Studios in Munich.
Starring alongside the young British actors will be some of the world’s most renowned opera stars, among them French soprano Sabine Devieilhe, Mexican-French tenor Rolando Villazón and U.S. bass Morris Robinson.
Directed by Florian Sigl, “The Magic Flute” is set in present-day Europe and follows 17-year-old singer Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
Wolfe, who began his career at London’s National Theatre and has appeared...
- 2/3/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The shock that greeted the affair between Dirk Bogarde’s SS officer and Charlotte Rampling’s Holocaust survivor looks dated 46 years on, but the film is an intriguing period piece
Mixed feelings are the only ones possible about the rerelease of Liliana Cavani’s 1974 shocker The Night Porter, a ripe piece of upper-middlebrow arthouse scandal in its day. The extremes of critical responses – disgust or contrarian acclaim – have both dated, although it is undoubtedly well acted by Dirk Bogarde, who brings his habitual wintry aplomb.
Bogarde plays Max, a fastidious, elegant, mysterious man working as a night porter in a hotel in Vienna in the late 1950s. He is impeccably turned out and attentive to the guests, although the work is clearly a little beneath him. One evening a certain guest arrives: Lucia, played by Charlotte Rampling, the beautiful, shy young wife of a visiting American conductor, working on the...
Mixed feelings are the only ones possible about the rerelease of Liliana Cavani’s 1974 shocker The Night Porter, a ripe piece of upper-middlebrow arthouse scandal in its day. The extremes of critical responses – disgust or contrarian acclaim – have both dated, although it is undoubtedly well acted by Dirk Bogarde, who brings his habitual wintry aplomb.
Bogarde plays Max, a fastidious, elegant, mysterious man working as a night porter in a hotel in Vienna in the late 1950s. He is impeccably turned out and attentive to the guests, although the work is clearly a little beneath him. One evening a certain guest arrives: Lucia, played by Charlotte Rampling, the beautiful, shy young wife of a visiting American conductor, working on the...
- 11/27/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Actress Carrie Coon joins Josh and Joe to discuss the Best of what she’s been watching during the pandemic.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Nest (2020)
Gone Girl (2014)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Sabrina (1954)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Opening Night (1977)
Husbands (1971)
Too Late Blues (1961)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Faces (1968)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Gloria (1980)
Mephisto (1981)
The Cremator (1969)
Zama (2017)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
Wanda (1970)
Blue Collar (1978)
The Lunchbox (2013)
63 Up (2019)
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
The Glass Shield (1994)
My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Cutter’s Way (1981)
Scenes From A Marriage (1973)
The Magician (1958)
The Silence (1963)
The Magic Flute (1975)
The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Virgin Spring (1963)
Summer with Monika (1953)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Black Girl (1966)
Fat Girl (2001)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Parasite (2019)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Other Notable Items...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Nest (2020)
Gone Girl (2014)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Sabrina (1954)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Opening Night (1977)
Husbands (1971)
Too Late Blues (1961)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Faces (1968)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Gloria (1980)
Mephisto (1981)
The Cremator (1969)
Zama (2017)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
Wanda (1970)
Blue Collar (1978)
The Lunchbox (2013)
63 Up (2019)
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
The Glass Shield (1994)
My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Cutter’s Way (1981)
Scenes From A Marriage (1973)
The Magician (1958)
The Silence (1963)
The Magic Flute (1975)
The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Virgin Spring (1963)
Summer with Monika (1953)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Black Girl (1966)
Fat Girl (2001)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Parasite (2019)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Other Notable Items...
- 11/17/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
We all know how charming Werner Herzog can be. Since he first narrated his 1974 documentary “The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner,” he has learned to put himself as a character in his films behind the camera, as probing questioner and witty commentator. More recently this led to acting jobs, including The Client in Season One of Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.”
Now, the prodigious director of some 20 fiction films, 31 documentary features (“Grizzly Man”) and 18 operas (“The Magic Flute”), has fallen in sync with a collaborator on his explorations into the awe and mystery of science, Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer (“Eruptions That Shook the World”).
The two men first met on an Antarctica volcano during filming on Herzog’s only Oscar-nominated film, “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007), the filmmaker said during a recent video interview (below). Oppenheimer stood out among the high-tech down jackets by wearing “a tweed jacket like...
Now, the prodigious director of some 20 fiction films, 31 documentary features (“Grizzly Man”) and 18 operas (“The Magic Flute”), has fallen in sync with a collaborator on his explorations into the awe and mystery of science, Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer (“Eruptions That Shook the World”).
The two men first met on an Antarctica volcano during filming on Herzog’s only Oscar-nominated film, “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007), the filmmaker said during a recent video interview (below). Oppenheimer stood out among the high-tech down jackets by wearing “a tweed jacket like...
- 11/13/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
We all know how charming Werner Herzog can be. Since he first narrated his 1974 documentary “The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner,” he has learned to put himself as a character in his films behind the camera, as probing questioner and witty commentator. More recently this led to acting jobs, including The Client in Season One of Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.”
Now, the prodigious director of some 20 fiction films, 31 documentary features (“Grizzly Man”) and 18 operas (“The Magic Flute”), has fallen in sync with a collaborator on his explorations into the awe and mystery of science, Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer (“Eruptions That Shook the World”).
The two men first met on an Antarctica volcano during filming on Herzog’s only Oscar-nominated film, “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007), the filmmaker said during a recent video interview (below). Oppenheimer stood out among the high-tech down jackets by wearing “a tweed jacket like...
Now, the prodigious director of some 20 fiction films, 31 documentary features (“Grizzly Man”) and 18 operas (“The Magic Flute”), has fallen in sync with a collaborator on his explorations into the awe and mystery of science, Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer (“Eruptions That Shook the World”).
The two men first met on an Antarctica volcano during filming on Herzog’s only Oscar-nominated film, “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007), the filmmaker said during a recent video interview (below). Oppenheimer stood out among the high-tech down jackets by wearing “a tweed jacket like...
- 11/13/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Berlin-based Tobis Film has boarded the Roland Emmerich-produced “The Magic Flute,” an English-language, live-action feature film based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera.
Tobis will handle distribution in German-speaking territories and also co-produce the project with Emmerich and his Centropolis Entertainment, Christopher Zwickler of Flute Film and Fabian Wolfart.
Directed by Florian Sigl, “The Magic Flute” is set in modern-day Europe and follows 17-year-old Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
“Tobis Film is one of the most successful and established distribution and production houses in Germany and we are thrilled to welcome them as our partner on ‘The Magic Flute,’” Emmerich said. “Thanks to their great marketing expertise and a highly motivated team I’m very confident this movie...
Tobis will handle distribution in German-speaking territories and also co-produce the project with Emmerich and his Centropolis Entertainment, Christopher Zwickler of Flute Film and Fabian Wolfart.
Directed by Florian Sigl, “The Magic Flute” is set in modern-day Europe and follows 17-year-old Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
“Tobis Film is one of the most successful and established distribution and production houses in Germany and we are thrilled to welcome them as our partner on ‘The Magic Flute,’” Emmerich said. “Thanks to their great marketing expertise and a highly motivated team I’m very confident this movie...
- 2/6/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Pixomondo, the VFX firm responsible for the dragons in Game of Thrones, has come on board the Roland Emmerich-produced feature film adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
The company, which also won an Academy Award for its work on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, is joining the project alongside German film fund Hessenfilm. Pixomondo will be responsible for the visual effects and character animations in this English-language adaptation of the famous opera, while Hessenfilm will be supporting the project with a subsidy of €350,000.
The story is set in today’s Europe; when 17-year old Tim Walker is sent from London to the Austrian alps, to start his singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of The Magic Flute.
The project is currently in pre-production with plans to begin shooting in late summer 2020.
Midway and Independence Day...
The company, which also won an Academy Award for its work on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, is joining the project alongside German film fund Hessenfilm. Pixomondo will be responsible for the visual effects and character animations in this English-language adaptation of the famous opera, while Hessenfilm will be supporting the project with a subsidy of €350,000.
The story is set in today’s Europe; when 17-year old Tim Walker is sent from London to the Austrian alps, to start his singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of The Magic Flute.
The project is currently in pre-production with plans to begin shooting in late summer 2020.
Midway and Independence Day...
- 1/7/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Will release in selected cinemas on January 25 2019.
BFI Distribution, the releasing arm of the British Film Institute, has acquired UK rights from The Match Factory. to Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year In A Life, a documentary about Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
It will release the title UK-wide in select cinemas from January 25, 2019. Home entertainment rights are also part of the deal.
The film made its world premiere in Cannes Classics earlier this year, and also screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
Bergman – A Year In A Life centres on 1957, a year in which Bergman directed two feature films and four plays.
BFI Distribution, the releasing arm of the British Film Institute, has acquired UK rights from The Match Factory. to Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year In A Life, a documentary about Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
It will release the title UK-wide in select cinemas from January 25, 2019. Home entertainment rights are also part of the deal.
The film made its world premiere in Cannes Classics earlier this year, and also screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
Bergman – A Year In A Life centres on 1957, a year in which Bergman directed two feature films and four plays.
- 11/6/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Julie Taymor wasn’t happy with Sony’s 2007 release of her biggest-budget film to date, the $45-million “Across the Universe.” An original movie musical, sung live long before “Les Miserables” or “La La Land,” her film was a memorably inventive and visually rich narrative comprised of mini-music videos, from multiple Salma Hayeks dancing in a vets’ hospital in “Happiness is a Warm Gun” to Bono’s Merry Prankster singing “I Am the Walrus” at a psychedelic ’60s cocktail party.
However, it received love-hate reviews and the box office topped out at a disappointing $24.3 million domestic, partly because Taymor delivered a more sophisticated, diverse, and densely political musical than Revolution Studios’ Joe Roth and Sony had in mind. Now, Sony has agreed to something of a make-good, booking a sparkling 4K restoration via Fathom Events across the country on three nights, July 29 – August 1. It’s worth checking out on the big screen.
However, it received love-hate reviews and the box office topped out at a disappointing $24.3 million domestic, partly because Taymor delivered a more sophisticated, diverse, and densely political musical than Revolution Studios’ Joe Roth and Sony had in mind. Now, Sony has agreed to something of a make-good, booking a sparkling 4K restoration via Fathom Events across the country on three nights, July 29 – August 1. It’s worth checking out on the big screen.
- 7/27/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Julie Taymor wasn’t happy with Sony’s 2007 release of her biggest-budget film to date, the $45-million “Across the Universe.” An original movie musical, sung live long before “Les Miserables” or “La La Land,” her film was a memorably inventive and visually rich narrative comprised of mini-music videos, from multiple Salma Hayeks dancing in a vets’ hospital in “Happiness is a Warm Gun” to Bono’s Merry Prankster singing “I Am the Walrus” at a psychedelic ’60s cocktail party.
However, it received love-hate reviews and the box office topped out at a disappointing $24.3 million domestic, partly because Taymor delivered a more sophisticated, diverse, and densely political musical than Revolution Studios’ Joe Roth and Sony had in mind. Now, Sony has agreed to something of a make-good, booking a sparkling 4K restoration via Fathom Events across the country on three nights, July 29 – August 1. It’s worth checking out on the big screen.
However, it received love-hate reviews and the box office topped out at a disappointing $24.3 million domestic, partly because Taymor delivered a more sophisticated, diverse, and densely political musical than Revolution Studios’ Joe Roth and Sony had in mind. Now, Sony has agreed to something of a make-good, booking a sparkling 4K restoration via Fathom Events across the country on three nights, July 29 – August 1. It’s worth checking out on the big screen.
- 7/27/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Tomorrow is the centenary of the birth of one of cinema’s greatest directors, Ingmar Bergman, and to celebrate, The Criterion Collection has announced of their most expansive releases ever. This November, they will release Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, a 39-film box set comprising nearly all of his work, including 18 films never before released by Criterion. Curated akin to a film festival, the set features Opening, Centerpiece, and Closing Films, with many double features in between. The set also features 11 introductions and over five hours of interviews with the director himself, six making-of documentaries, a 248-page book, and much more.
As we await for its November 20 release, check out an overview from Criterion below, as well as the box art, the trailer, and the full list of films, in curated order. One can also see much more about each release and the special features on the official site.
With the...
As we await for its November 20 release, check out an overview from Criterion below, as well as the box art, the trailer, and the full list of films, in curated order. One can also see much more about each release and the special features on the official site.
With the...
- 7/13/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Celebrating 100 years of Ingmar Bergman's Cinema. Janus Films has debuted a trailer to celebrate their upcoming Ingmar Bergman Retrospective, which will be launching at the Film Forum in NYC next month. This is a big year for legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who would've been celebrating his 100th birthday on July 14th (he passed away in 2007). Janus is celebrating his life and work by showing almost all of his films in cinemas around the country, including his most famous features: The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander, The Magic Flute, The Magician, Through a Glass Darkly, Wild Strawberries, and Winter Light. "Join Janus Films as they celebrate the centennial of Bergman's birth in 2018 with a traveling retrospective of his theatrical films, all newly restored and many never before available in Dcp." So dive in. Here's the official trailer for Janus Films' 2018 Ingmar Bergman Retrospective, direct from Vimeo: For more info,...
- 1/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Warning: Spoiler alert.
Meryl Streep’s performance in Florence Foster Jenkins is shaping up to be yet another highlight of the incredible actress’s long career. The irony that one of America’s greatest living actresses would wind up playing a woman known as one of its worst singers seems staggering, which is why Jenkins’ incredible life deserves a closer look.
Jenkins was born — appropriately — Narcissa Florence Foster on July 19, 1868, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The city’s population and industry were booming after the discovery of coal in the region; Woolworth’s, Planter’s Peanuts, Bell Telephone and Luzerne National Bank...
Meryl Streep’s performance in Florence Foster Jenkins is shaping up to be yet another highlight of the incredible actress’s long career. The irony that one of America’s greatest living actresses would wind up playing a woman known as one of its worst singers seems staggering, which is why Jenkins’ incredible life deserves a closer look.
Jenkins was born — appropriately — Narcissa Florence Foster on July 19, 1868, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The city’s population and industry were booming after the discovery of coal in the region; Woolworth’s, Planter’s Peanuts, Bell Telephone and Luzerne National Bank...
- 1/23/2017
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
As we await Paul Thomas Anderson‘s next film later this year, one now has the chance to see his sprawling second feature about the world of pornography in a 70s and 80s Los Angeles on Netflix. Boogie Nights, which features much of the ensemble — including Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham — at their best,...
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
As we await Paul Thomas Anderson‘s next film later this year, one now has the chance to see his sprawling second feature about the world of pornography in a 70s and 80s Los Angeles on Netflix. Boogie Nights, which features much of the ensemble — including Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham — at their best,...
- 1/6/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Stephen Schwartz's new musical, Schikaneder - The turbulent love story behind The Magic Flute is a romantic musical comedy about the actor, singer, director, writer and impresario Emanuel Schikaneder and his wife, Eleonore Schikaneder made its world premiere on 30 September 2016. It continues the Vbw's tradition of creating new in-house productions - the autumn production of Schikaneder will be the Raimund Theater's twelfth world premiere musical. Check out a sneak peek below...
- 10/4/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Behind the scenes of the Raimund Theater in Vienna, Austria everybody is working in high gear at the newest in-house production of the Vereinigte Buhnen Wien Schikaneder - the turbulent love story behind The Magic Flute. The new musical by Stephen Schwartz music and lyrics, Christian Struppeck book and Sir Trevor Nunn director will have its world premiere on September 30th in Vienna.Just a little over a year after our last interview with Christian Struppeck, shortly after the musical Schikaneder was announced, we got to catch up with him again to find out how the show has developed since then and how things are going in the rehearsal room.
- 8/30/2016
- by Iris Moebius
- BroadwayWorld.com
Schikaneder - The Turbulent Love Story Behind The Magic Flute, a romantic musical comedy about one of the 18th century's most colourful theatrical couples, celebrates itsworld premiere on 30 September 2016. It continues the tradition of the Vereinigte Buhnen Wien VBWof creating new in-house productions - the autumn production of Schikaneder will be the Raimund Theater's twelfth world premiere musical.The two lead actors,Mark Seibert Schikaneder und Milica Jovanovic Eleonore recently went into the studio to record one of the songs from the musical byStephen Schwartz Music and Lyricsund VBWdirectorChristian Struppeckbook to give a small taste of the show 'Traum Gro' Dream Big.
- 6/17/2016
- by Iris Moebius
- BroadwayWorld.com
Gem Wheeler Jan 10, 2017
To mark 30 years of Inspector Morse on television, here are 10 of his most complex, macabre and memorable cases...
Warning: contains spoilers.
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Beer, Wagner, a red Jaguar, and Barrington Pheloung’s haunting theme. Those images conjure up one of the most memorable characters in British television. Inspector Morse’s final episode aired in the UK over fifteen years ago, yet the impression left by the hugely popular drama remains indelible. Its popular spinoff, Lewis, finished only two years ago after nine successful series, while a prequel, Endeavour, has just started to air its fourth run. The appeal of Morse and his Oxford is clearly as strong as ever.
Inspector Morse...
To mark 30 years of Inspector Morse on television, here are 10 of his most complex, macabre and memorable cases...
Warning: contains spoilers.
See related Legion: Marvel shares cryptic logo for X-Men series What can Fox learn from the previous X-Men TV series? 50 upcoming comic book TV shows, and when to expect them New TV 2016: 28 Us shows for this autumn
Beer, Wagner, a red Jaguar, and Barrington Pheloung’s haunting theme. Those images conjure up one of the most memorable characters in British television. Inspector Morse’s final episode aired in the UK over fifteen years ago, yet the impression left by the hugely popular drama remains indelible. Its popular spinoff, Lewis, finished only two years ago after nine successful series, while a prequel, Endeavour, has just started to air its fourth run. The appeal of Morse and his Oxford is clearly as strong as ever.
Inspector Morse...
- 2/8/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Internationally renowned, Oscar- Grammy- and Golden Globe winning composerStephen Schwartzis currently developing a brand new musical that is set to premier in the fall of 2016 in Vienna. The project is a collaboration with Christian Struppeck,artistic director of theVereinigte Buhnen Wien Vbw, who is also writing the book for the show, and british star-director Trevor Nunn. The musical is centered on the live of the theater coupleEmanuel and Eleonore Schikaneder, who were some of the most influencial people inthe opera and theater world in the 18th Century Vienna, and the creation of one of the most famous opera pieces in history, The Magic Flute. The production is produced in-house by the Vbw and I recently had the opportunty to spreak to book writer and artistic directorChristian Struppeckabout this exciting new musical and the international cooperation withStephen SchwartzandTrevor Nunn.
- 7/29/2015
- by Iris Moebius
- BroadwayWorld.com
It may seem unusual for a renowned film director to suddenly switch mediums and helm an opera, but such a thing has happened a number of times before: for example, Woody Allen has directed Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” for the Los Angeles Opera; legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has helmed Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” for the Aix-en-Provence Festival; Julie Taymor has directed Mozart's "The Magic Flute" for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as the Broadway musical adaptations of "The Lion King" and "Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark"; Roman Polanski has helmed Verdi's “Rigoletto” for the Bavarian State Opera; William Friedkin has directed a version of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck”; and Werner Herzog has helmed a number of Wagner productions including “Doktor Faust,” “The Flying Dutchman” and “Parsifal”. Read More: Terry Gilliam: My Life In Eight Movies Terry Gilliam is among this elite group,...
- 6/22/2015
- by Timothy Tau
- The Playlist
Fathom Events and Omniverse Vision partner to present 'Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream' in select cinemas on June 22 followed by showings at select theaters nationwide . The production is directed byJulie TaymorFrida, The Magic Flute, Across The Universe, Titus the visionary director of the smash hit Broadway show The Lion King. BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet for a the New YorkCity premiere of the film, and you can hear form the director herself, plus all of the evening's guests below...
- 6/16/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Taymor's latest Shakespeare film, shot by her "Frida" cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, combines her 2014 acclaimed Brooklyn live theater production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with hand-held close-up filming. (See video highlights of my onstage Q & A with her below.) Shakespeare is Julie Taymor's touchstone. She comes back to him not only in countless stage productions but on film as well, from the exhilarating visual and violent "Titus" with Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins to Helen Mirren's incomparable take on Prospero in "The Tempest." Taymor also loves the Beatles ("Across the Universe"), Frida Kahlo ("Frida"), "The Lion King" (the $1 billion-grossing Tony-winning musical), opera (Mozart's "The Magic Flute," life partner Elliot Goldenthal's "Grendel") and her swooping version of the Broadway hit "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"--for which she successfully sued to get...
- 6/5/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Kenneth Branagh chats to us about directing Cinderella, Cate Blanchett, Patrick Doyle and his favourite Jason Statham film.
With an opening weekend that topped $70m in the Us, Kenneth Branagh may have the hit of his movie directing career on his hands with his live action Cinderella take. It's a strong film too, that finally makes it to the UK this week. And ahead of its release, he spared us some time for a natter about it...
I think I've worked out what you're up to. I've worked out your ruse. You do Thor, Cinderella and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Three different juggernauts, aimed at three different segments of the market, opening your work up to an audience that may otherwise not be familiar with it.
This is all about selling DVDs of Peter's Friends, isn't it?
[Laughs] That would be a lovely by-product.
Were you consciously looking for different audience subsets,...
With an opening weekend that topped $70m in the Us, Kenneth Branagh may have the hit of his movie directing career on his hands with his live action Cinderella take. It's a strong film too, that finally makes it to the UK this week. And ahead of its release, he spared us some time for a natter about it...
I think I've worked out what you're up to. I've worked out your ruse. You do Thor, Cinderella and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Three different juggernauts, aimed at three different segments of the market, opening your work up to an audience that may otherwise not be familiar with it.
This is all about selling DVDs of Peter's Friends, isn't it?
[Laughs] That would be a lovely by-product.
Were you consciously looking for different audience subsets,...
- 3/24/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
ITV.com asked its fans which detective programs were their favorites and they answered in full force! One of the winners, “Inspector Morse: Masonic Mysteries,” will air on ITV 3 Jan. 10. The program will also air on FilmOn’s ITV 3 channel. “Inspector Morse: Masonic Mysteries” finds Morse himself at the center of murder. Morse has to prove his innocence proven and solve the crime. “Morse finds himself under suspicion when a lady friend is murdered during a dress rehearsal for a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Even the loyal Lewis has his doubts when evidence incriminating Morse is discovered, but as he fights to clear his name and identify [ Read More ]
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- 1/18/2015
- by monique
- ShockYa
Milos Forman was looking for the best writer to adapt the hippie anti-war musical Hair for the big screen. The Czech filmmaker already had a growing U.S. following in the wake of The Firemen’s Ball and Taking Off when 1975’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest took home five Oscars including best film and best director. And while Michael Weller had zero experience as a screenwriter, he did have a reputation for plays that cast a gimlet eye on the generation that came of age in the era of protest against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. His works included Moonchildren (1971), Loose Ends (1979) and Spoils Of War (1988), which interwove the intensely felt political and personal obsessions of Baby Boomers on the cusp of adulthood.
For Forman, Weller would write two of the most underrated films of their time, Hair (1979) and, two years later, Ragtime. Like his...
For Forman, Weller would write two of the most underrated films of their time, Hair (1979) and, two years later, Ragtime. Like his...
- 12/29/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
Shakespeare is Julie Taymor's touchstone. She comes back to him not only in countless stage productions but on film as well, from the exhilarating visual and violent "Titus" with Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins to Helen Mirren's incomparable take on Prospero in "The Tempest." Taymor also loves the Beatles ("Across the Universe"), Frida Kahlo ("Frida"), "The Lion King" (the $1 billion-grossing Tony-winning musical), opera (Mozart's "The Magic Flute," life partner Elliot Goldenthal's "Grendel") and her swooping version of the Broadway hit "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"--for which she successfully sued to get royalties. One of the high points of the recent Toronto International Film Festival was not only watching the world premiere of Taymor's latest Shakespeare film--shot by her "Frida" cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, combining her recent acclaimed Brooklyn live theater...
- 9/15/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: South African adaptation of La Boheme to be directed by Berlinale Golden Bear winner Mark Dornford May and supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Shooting has begun this week in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
The director said: “La Boheme is a glittering piece of musical history but it also contains a searing emotional cry for understanding and action about the brutal realities of the everyday life of the poor and their struggle for shelter, food and medicine. This is what we want to bring to the screen in Breathe – Umphefumlo.”
Dornford May has...
Shooting has begun this week in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
The director said: “La Boheme is a glittering piece of musical history but it also contains a searing emotional cry for understanding and action about the brutal realities of the everyday life of the poor and their struggle for shelter, food and medicine. This is what we want to bring to the screen in Breathe – Umphefumlo.”
Dornford May has...
- 8/20/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
This story first appeared in the Aug. 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Movie theater owners throughout the world are fretting over the possibility of a lockout at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The Met's live broadcasts into theaters on Saturdays have generated an estimated $300 million since Julie Taymor's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute was beamed into cinemas in 2006. Those performances will go dark if a federal mediator can't help solve a worsening labor standoff between Met management and 12 of its 16 unions. "We remain optimistic that differences will be resolved," says
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- 8/7/2014
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ego-Yawn: Kiddie Porn Ring thriller less than Captivating
While, in many respects, The Captive represents a return to form for the Toronto-based Cannes mainstay, the “losing” streak, sadly, goes on. Similar in premise to recent child captivity films like Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners and Marcus Schleinzer’s 2011 Palme d’Or-contending Michael, Egoyan once again foregrounds the technological angle of his kidnap narrative, putting authorial emphasis on surveillance paranoia, chatroom anonymity, and cellular video capabilities to distinguish the project from the aforementioned works. The result is a highly stylized thriller that – aided by an a-chronological structure in its first act – is legitimately intriguing and occasionally captivating until it fall into irredeemably dumb traps of its own setting. Many will lambast the film’s intentionally stilted performances and hammy tone, but its most egregious flaws are located in the script, which, among many flaws, exhibits a lack of understanding in the way...
While, in many respects, The Captive represents a return to form for the Toronto-based Cannes mainstay, the “losing” streak, sadly, goes on. Similar in premise to recent child captivity films like Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners and Marcus Schleinzer’s 2011 Palme d’Or-contending Michael, Egoyan once again foregrounds the technological angle of his kidnap narrative, putting authorial emphasis on surveillance paranoia, chatroom anonymity, and cellular video capabilities to distinguish the project from the aforementioned works. The result is a highly stylized thriller that – aided by an a-chronological structure in its first act – is legitimately intriguing and occasionally captivating until it fall into irredeemably dumb traps of its own setting. Many will lambast the film’s intentionally stilted performances and hammy tone, but its most egregious flaws are located in the script, which, among many flaws, exhibits a lack of understanding in the way...
- 5/18/2014
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
Atom Egoyan’s The Captive tells the story of a little girl kidnapped from the back of her father’s car at the age of ten. Eight years go by, apparently without word of her, before some mysterious events simultaneously occur, indicating that the lost girl is still alive. Events take place in a small town close to Niagara Falls, which occasionally acts as a dramatic backdrop to events.
A starry cast leads this tale, with Ryan Reynolds playing the dad, Matthew, Rosario Dawson as the detective in charge of child abuse cases, and Kevin Durand as the kidnapper and keeper of Cassandra (Alexia Fast). Of these three leads, only Reynolds comes out relatively unharmed. Famous as a pretty-boy heart throb, he is convincing here as the distraught dad, blamed for his daughter’s abduction by his emotionally destroyed wife, Tina (Mireille Enos). Dawson is less fortunate, having the thankless...
A starry cast leads this tale, with Ryan Reynolds playing the dad, Matthew, Rosario Dawson as the detective in charge of child abuse cases, and Kevin Durand as the kidnapper and keeper of Cassandra (Alexia Fast). Of these three leads, only Reynolds comes out relatively unharmed. Famous as a pretty-boy heart throb, he is convincing here as the distraught dad, blamed for his daughter’s abduction by his emotionally destroyed wife, Tina (Mireille Enos). Dawson is less fortunate, having the thankless...
- 5/16/2014
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Opera is waking up to the power of video. For his new production of Don Giovanni, the Royal Opera House's Kasper Holten collaborated with a designer who turned U2 tours and the 2012 Olympics into visual spectaculars. Stuart Jeffries goes behind the screens
"Don Giovanni is called the director's graveyard," says Kasper Holten. "It's impossible to do a perfect production. The existential moral journey of the seducer to hell is hard enough to make convincing – without having to juggle all the farcical elements, too."
So why is Holten, the Royal Opera House's director of opera, returning to Mozart's work for the third time (he has already directed it on stage and on film)? And why is he ratcheting up the risk with some of the tricksiest, most perilous video design ever seen on the British opera stage?
"It makes sense marrying video technology and Mozart," he explains. "If he were alive,...
"Don Giovanni is called the director's graveyard," says Kasper Holten. "It's impossible to do a perfect production. The existential moral journey of the seducer to hell is hard enough to make convincing – without having to juggle all the farcical elements, too."
So why is Holten, the Royal Opera House's director of opera, returning to Mozart's work for the third time (he has already directed it on stage and on film)? And why is he ratcheting up the risk with some of the tricksiest, most perilous video design ever seen on the British opera stage?
"It makes sense marrying video technology and Mozart," he explains. "If he were alive,...
- 2/11/2014
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Before seeing the Met's new production of Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus, directed by Jeremy Sams, on Saturday night, I listened to the afternoon's live broadcast of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Both were written in German and performed in English to make them more palatable to their target audiences Broadway musical lovers and young opera-goers-in-training, respectively. But, while the Mozart had its guts cut away, to shave the running time to 90 minutes without an intermission, the Fledermaus went on--and on and on--for four hours. Both had the same result--and it was not good.
- 1/9/2014
- by Richard Sasanow
- BroadwayWorld.com
Before seeing the Met's new production of Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus, directed by Jeremy Sams, on Saturday night, I listened to the afternoon's live broadcast of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Both were written in German and performed in English to make them more palatable to their target audiences Broadway musical lovers and young opera-goers-in-training, respectively. But, while the Mozart had its guts cut away, to shave the running time to 90 minutes without an intermission, the Fledermaus went on--and on and on--for four hours. Both had the same result--and it was not good.
- 1/9/2014
- by Richard Sasanow
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paramount Pictures
Everyone likes a good cinematic shock. The cinema is a safe way in which we can live out our fears and horrors vicariously – all of the “what if?” scenarios us gloomy people ponder at night. There are an awful amount of movies that set out to intentionally startle the bejaysus out of us – from high art like Salo or on a lower scale – Slaughtered Vomit Dolls.
The most fascinating kinds of startling moments are those that come out of nowhere and catch the viewer unawares. There are film makers out there like Gaspar Noé and Alexandre Aja who thrive on shocking and appalling cinema – just think of the sequence in Noé’s Seul Contre Tous in which the Butcher snaps and kicks and punches his pregnant girlfriend’s stomach and later the implied rape of his autistic daughter.
I have chosen a few moments of startling cinema for you below.
Everyone likes a good cinematic shock. The cinema is a safe way in which we can live out our fears and horrors vicariously – all of the “what if?” scenarios us gloomy people ponder at night. There are an awful amount of movies that set out to intentionally startle the bejaysus out of us – from high art like Salo or on a lower scale – Slaughtered Vomit Dolls.
The most fascinating kinds of startling moments are those that come out of nowhere and catch the viewer unawares. There are film makers out there like Gaspar Noé and Alexandre Aja who thrive on shocking and appalling cinema – just think of the sequence in Noé’s Seul Contre Tous in which the Butcher snaps and kicks and punches his pregnant girlfriend’s stomach and later the implied rape of his autistic daughter.
I have chosen a few moments of startling cinema for you below.
- 12/31/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
Exclusive: The President is one of a record eight features on 2014 production slate from Film & Music Entertainment.
Mike Downey & Sam Taylor’s London-based Film & Music Entertainment is launching a record eight features in 2014, representing total production budgets of $21m. This comes after six features totalling $12m in 2013.
Bac Films has come on board to handle international sales and serve as French co-producer for one of those eight, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President, which is casting now for a February start of shoot in Georgia. As with their recent Georgian shoot for Ben Hopkins’ Epic, F&Me are partnering in Georgia with Vladimer Katcharava’s 20 Steps Productions as well as the Caucasian Film Service. Germany’s Herzog and Brümmer co-produces the $1.95m project.
Also in February, sequel documentary Streetkids United II – The Girls from Rio will start its shoot in Brazil, with a budget of $995,000 and directed by Mara Mourao. The Brazilian co-producer is Walkiria Barbosa of Total...
Mike Downey & Sam Taylor’s London-based Film & Music Entertainment is launching a record eight features in 2014, representing total production budgets of $21m. This comes after six features totalling $12m in 2013.
Bac Films has come on board to handle international sales and serve as French co-producer for one of those eight, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President, which is casting now for a February start of shoot in Georgia. As with their recent Georgian shoot for Ben Hopkins’ Epic, F&Me are partnering in Georgia with Vladimer Katcharava’s 20 Steps Productions as well as the Caucasian Film Service. Germany’s Herzog and Brümmer co-produces the $1.95m project.
Also in February, sequel documentary Streetkids United II – The Girls from Rio will start its shoot in Brazil, with a budget of $995,000 and directed by Mara Mourao. The Brazilian co-producer is Walkiria Barbosa of Total...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Review: Beautiful music and an epic setting come together for Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute The creative tools at writer/director Kenneth Branagh’s disposal for his lavish, World War I-set, English-language adaptation of Mozart’s 1791 opera The Magic Flute begin with an attractive cast of emerging opera stars including Metropolitan Opera lyric bass René Pape. Production designer Tim Harvey helps Branagh recreate the No Man’s Land battlefields of World War I era France with epic dazzle. Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe bring to life Mozart’s timeless score. Actor and writer Stephen Fry adapts Emanuel Schikaneder’s original German libretto into an accessible English version with Branagh providing the screenplay. The result is a lively mix of cinematic imagery and stage opera staging. Branagh’s movie may fail to capture the spark of watching a live performance at one...
- 6/29/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Screening in select U.S. theaters on Sunday, June 9, and Tuesday, June 11, Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute transforms Mozart's opera into a true cinematic experience. Branagh is also scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session after the screening on Sunday, live via webcast from London. Among other questions, he might be asked, "What took so long?" The film enjoyed a simultaneous world premiere at the Toronto and Venice film festivals in September 2006, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Subsequently it was released in multiple territories, including Canada and England, but not the U.S. Now Emerging Pictures, a company that specializes in delivering specialty films and "alternate content" (opera, ballet) to a network of participating theaters, has secured theatrical screenings,...
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- 6/9/2013
- Screen Anarchy
“It’s almost incomprehensible to me that I’m talking to you seven years after we made this film,” says Kenneth Branagh. In 2006 the Oscar-nominated director was approached by Sir Peter Moors — “an extraordinary artistic patron” — to make a film version of Mozart’s famed The Magic Flute. “It was an entire surprise to me to be asked to do it,” Branagh says. “I’m by no means an opera buff.”
Actor/writer/performer Stephen Fry (whom Branagh refers to as “a very funny and brilliant man”) came aboard and took charge of the libretto, which transports the opera to the first World War.
Actor/writer/performer Stephen Fry (whom Branagh refers to as “a very funny and brilliant man”) came aboard and took charge of the libretto, which transports the opera to the first World War.
- 6/8/2013
- by Sara Vilkomerson
- EW - Inside Movies
At Streetwise Opera we make shows with people who have experienced homelessness. Could combining live performance and film bring us a bigger audience?
Over the last few years, cinemas have been filled with something a little more lyrical than Tom Cruise jumping out of a helicopter in his latest blockbuster. These days you're as likely to encounter The Magic Flute as Mission Impossible at your local Odeon, since live opera relays from the likes of New York's Metropolitan Opera and Glyndebourne, with multiple camera set-ups capturing the action at close quarters, make you feel as if you're in the actual theatre – in the best seats in the house.
But purists maintain that nothing can really compare with the raw passion and immediacy of experiencing opera live, and we at Streetwise Opera began to wonder if there was a way of combining the best of live opera and film in a single production.
Over the last few years, cinemas have been filled with something a little more lyrical than Tom Cruise jumping out of a helicopter in his latest blockbuster. These days you're as likely to encounter The Magic Flute as Mission Impossible at your local Odeon, since live opera relays from the likes of New York's Metropolitan Opera and Glyndebourne, with multiple camera set-ups capturing the action at close quarters, make you feel as if you're in the actual theatre – in the best seats in the house.
But purists maintain that nothing can really compare with the raw passion and immediacy of experiencing opera live, and we at Streetwise Opera began to wonder if there was a way of combining the best of live opera and film in a single production.
- 4/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Washington — Hip-hop artists including rappers Nas and Somalia-born K'naan will take center stage in an unexpected place next year, highlighting their generation and art form alongside opera, ballet and theater at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The center, a memorial to President John F. Kennedy, announced Tuesday that its 2013-2014 season would include the weeklong festival "One Mic: Hip-Hop Culture Worldwide." It also plans to feature an international theater festival with works from at least 10 different nations and new American works commissioned in theater, opera and music.
The 2014 hip-hop festival will open with Nas rapping with musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra on music from his classic debut album "Illmatic." The festival will also feature Puerto Rican musicians Calle 13 and a graffiti exhibition.
The mix of rap, DJing and graffiti with more traditional arts at one of the nation's busiest performing arts centers will make the year unique,...
The center, a memorial to President John F. Kennedy, announced Tuesday that its 2013-2014 season would include the weeklong festival "One Mic: Hip-Hop Culture Worldwide." It also plans to feature an international theater festival with works from at least 10 different nations and new American works commissioned in theater, opera and music.
The 2014 hip-hop festival will open with Nas rapping with musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra on music from his classic debut album "Illmatic." The festival will also feature Puerto Rican musicians Calle 13 and a graffiti exhibition.
The mix of rap, DJing and graffiti with more traditional arts at one of the nation's busiest performing arts centers will make the year unique,...
- 3/5/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
With a leading man (that would be one Ryan Reynolds) in place and shooting set to start soon, Canadian director Atom Egoyan has tracked down the other main element for his new thriller Queen Of The Night. Rosario Dawson will be starring alongside Reynolds.Queen, whose plot is still largely under wraps save that it will find Reynolds as the father of an abducted child, was co-written by Egoyan and David Fraser, based on an idea by the director. As far as we know it has nothing to do with either the Whitney Houston song or the character in The Magic Flute.With cameras set to start whirring this month in Ontario, Egoyan also has Scott Speedman and Gangster Squad’s Mireille Enos signed on as part of the ensemble cast.Dawson has been busy of late, working on the likes of Gimme Shelter, Chavez and Parts Per Billion, which she’s also produced.
- 1/23/2013
- EmpireOnline
Austin Lyric Opera became the first professional opera company in Austin when it was founded in May of 1986. It quickly became a cultural touchstone for the fine arts community in the Central Texas Region. Co-founders Joseph McClain and the late Dr. Walkter Ducloux quickly developed a company focused on 3 essential E's- Enrich, entertain and educate. This has only continued since its debut production of Mozart's The Magic Flute in January 1987 until now 26 years later.
- 1/17/2013
- by Scott Frost
- BroadwayWorld.com
Swiss soprano renowned for her beauty and singing of Strauss
When the Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, made her Covent Garden debut in the title role of Richard Strauss's Arabella on the Bavarian State Opera's visit to London in 1953, she won all hearts with the beauty of her singing and of her appearance. This role became her trademark, and when the Royal Opera decided to stage its own production of the work in 1965, Della Casa was, of course, the Arabella, with Georg Solti in the pit.
The producer was Rudolf Hartmann, who had done much to launch Della Casa's career on an international level. That career had begun in 1941 in the Swiss town of Solothurn-Biel, where she made her debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly. She joined the Zurich Opera House in 1943, appearing as the First Boy in The Magic Flute, later ascending...
When the Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, made her Covent Garden debut in the title role of Richard Strauss's Arabella on the Bavarian State Opera's visit to London in 1953, she won all hearts with the beauty of her singing and of her appearance. This role became her trademark, and when the Royal Opera decided to stage its own production of the work in 1965, Della Casa was, of course, the Arabella, with Georg Solti in the pit.
The producer was Rudolf Hartmann, who had done much to launch Della Casa's career on an international level. That career had begun in 1941 in the Swiss town of Solothurn-Biel, where she made her debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly. She joined the Zurich Opera House in 1943, appearing as the First Boy in The Magic Flute, later ascending...
- 12/11/2012
- by Alan Blyth
- The Guardian - Film News
Rarely are squabbles over production and distribution as fraught as those that accompanied the long gestation and brief theatrical life of Kenneth Lonergan's second feature. It would seem that a film must be something special to elicit such strong feelings, and "Margaret" is that film and then some. It's extraordinary. Somehow, the film manages to combine high literary erudition — allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Magic Flute," off-Broadway drama — with the rough poetic alchemy of everyday speech. In the classroom, on the couch, at the street corner, "Margaret" nails the zigzagging nature of human interaction, its strange and sometimes willful brew of anxiety, honesty, flirtation, wary diffidence and preening. This would be enough to mark it as original, skillful work, but the harmony of these strands comes to be symphonic, one amplifying the other, until Lonergan's film becomes a complicated portrait of the...
- 7/10/2012
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
He was a curmudgeon who didn’t have children, didn’t especially like children, and yet was probably the most noted children’s book writer and illustrator in the past fifty years, J.K. Rowling notwithstanding. He was Maurice Sendak and he died May 8th at age 83 after a stroke.
Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where The Wild Things Are, a favorite in our house. I got my Mary the full set of the McFarlane figurines and we saw and liked the movie version (many people didn’t but we did, nyah nyah).
He was infamous for books like In The Night Kitchen because its hero is a young boy named Mickey who falls out of his night clothes and runs around naked. As Lewis Black might put it, “Some people see pictures of a little boy’s wee-wee and it makes them want to cry.” It’s gotten...
Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where The Wild Things Are, a favorite in our house. I got my Mary the full set of the McFarlane figurines and we saw and liked the movie version (many people didn’t but we did, nyah nyah).
He was infamous for books like In The Night Kitchen because its hero is a young boy named Mickey who falls out of his night clothes and runs around naked. As Lewis Black might put it, “Some people see pictures of a little boy’s wee-wee and it makes them want to cry.” It’s gotten...
- 5/13/2012
- by John Ostrander
- Comicmix.com
Children's author and illustrator best known for Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, who has died aged 83, was both one of the most individual and one of the most successful illustrators of the 20th century. Since 1951 his 90-odd titles have sold nearly 30m copies in the Us alone. His renowned work Where the Wild Things Are (1963), with worldwide sales of more than 19m, was a turning point not only in his own career but in the history of children's books.
The bulk of his work lay in illustrating other writers, but it was his own, far fewer, books which brought him countless international awards and academic honours, and made him the subject of many a thesis. At first, Where the Wild Things Are and its follow-up, In the Night Kitchen (1970), caused outraged shock at their robust portrayal of children's fears and aggression; Sendak's fantasy was always "rooted 10ft deep...
Maurice Sendak, who has died aged 83, was both one of the most individual and one of the most successful illustrators of the 20th century. Since 1951 his 90-odd titles have sold nearly 30m copies in the Us alone. His renowned work Where the Wild Things Are (1963), with worldwide sales of more than 19m, was a turning point not only in his own career but in the history of children's books.
The bulk of his work lay in illustrating other writers, but it was his own, far fewer, books which brought him countless international awards and academic honours, and made him the subject of many a thesis. At first, Where the Wild Things Are and its follow-up, In the Night Kitchen (1970), caused outraged shock at their robust portrayal of children's fears and aggression; Sendak's fantasy was always "rooted 10ft deep...
- 5/8/2012
- by Stephanie Nettell
- The Guardian - Film News
Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman are the subjects of former architect Dheeraj Akolkar's documentary Liv & Ingmar, produced by the Norwegian company NordicStories and to be distributed by Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri. After meeting in 1965, Ullmann and Bergman made ten (narrative) films together; they were also off-screen companions for five years. In Liv & Ingmar, Ullmann, 73, is shown spending a few days in Bergman's house on the Swedish island of Fårø. While there, she reminisces about their personal and professional relationships. That sounds fascinating enough. But what makes Liv & Ingmar even more intriguing is that Ullmann's recollections are interspersed with scenes from her Bergman films, which is supposed to show how their personal lives directly affected their professional collaboration. In that regard, Liv & Ingmar makes Ullmann and Bergman seem like Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, who went from The Purple of Rose of Cairo and Hannah and Her Sisters...
- 4/20/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
On December 10, 1791, after Mozart had died five days earlier at age 35, there was a memorial service in Vienna, and for the first time some of his Requiem was performed. It was not noted then what parts were played, but H.C. Robbins Landon, who has studied the Requiem completion in some depth and made his own edition, makes the obvious nomination: the movements that Mozart had largely completed, the Introit (Requiem aeternam), which was fully finished, and the Kyrie, for which Mozart had written all the vocal parts and the basso continuo, and which thus needed only the orchestration, which was accomplished at least well enough for that first performance by Franz Jakob Freystädtler (a student of Mozart's) doubling the choral parts with instrumentation, while another student of Mozart's, Franz Xaver Sűssmayr, composed original parts for trumpets and timpani.
Jan Swafford recently wrote, "Like most composers of the Enlightenment,...
Jan Swafford recently wrote, "Like most composers of the Enlightenment,...
- 12/10/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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