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Post by divtal on Jul 12, 2017 22:00:51 GMT
(Note: I would like to thank London777, for reminding me that I had The Red Violin recommended to me, some months ago, but had forgotten the recommendation. I watched it, a couple of nights ago ... and, ordered the remastered version for my library.)
I'm going to add The Red Shoes to the list. While the film's focus is on dance, in involves great conflict between the passion between the individual arts of dance and music composition. There is the obvious love interest between dancer and composer, and their passions for their "callings." But, I find a deeper emotional conflict within ballet master Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). He says that, for him, ballet is "a religion." Yet, he emphasizes, to the dancers, "nothing matters, but the music!" It's a tragic undoing.
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Post by marshamae on Jul 12, 2017 23:18:22 GMT
Likewise the Kenneth Branagh Emma Thompson thriller DEAD AGAIN has the struggles of an emigre composer and conductor as a central story arc. It's LA after WWII, the classical music world and the film world , and the difficulty à brillant and well known musician has getting established after fleeing Europe. We know about the many who found success, Rubinstein, Stravinsky, Andre Previn, Korn gold etc, but how many more did we never hear of, who became teachers at community colleges or left music altogether because they failed to make the swim upstream .
Branagh plays a conductor, and does one of tge pretty good screen conducting performances by a non musician. Oddly my vote for best conducting by an actor is Donald OConnor in Singing in tye Rain. His beat is natural , expressive and easy to follow.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 14, 2017 13:26:26 GMT
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Post by london777 on Jul 16, 2017 14:55:12 GMT
I'm going to add The Red Shoes to the list. No need to be tentative about it. You could drag The Red Shoes into a discussion of Westerns or films about inter-galactic exploration and get no complaints from me. One of my Top Twenty.
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Post by london777 on Jul 17, 2017 2:22:44 GMT
The sad news of the death of Martin Landau reminded me of Ivory (2010).
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