by Sam Juliano Franco Zeffirelli achieved what no other had managed before or since. He scored major successes on the opera stage, in the theatre and the cinema, and eventually brought these forms together to become the greatest director of “opera films” in a prolific run in the 1980′s. Once a student of art and architecture, Zeffirelli [...]
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The Silent Village – 1943, Humphrey Jennings
Posted in The Fish Obscuro on September 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
by Allan Fish (UK 1943 35m) not on DVD Achtung, achtung! p/d/w Humphrey Jennings ph H.E.Fowle ed Stewart McAllister What does one think of when one thinks of the Welsh in the movies? I hear the answers – Stanley Baker, Richard Burton, Sian Phillips, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Sheen, even Ray Milland technically. [...]
Broadway Melody of 1940 – 1939, Norman Taurog
Posted in The Fish Obscuro on September 27, 2011 | 13 Comments »
by Allan Fish (USA 1939 102m) DVD1/2 Waiting for act Two p Jack Cummings d Norman Taurog w Leon Gordon, George Oppenheimer story Jack MacGowran, Dore Schary ph Oliver T.Marsh, Joseph Ruttenberg ed Blanche Sewell md Alfred Newman m/ly Cole Porter art Cedric Gibbons Fred Astaire (Johnny Brett), Eleanor Powell (Clare Bennett), George Murphy (King [...]
Cabin in the Sky (No. 40)
Posted in Genre Countdown: Musical on September 26, 2011 | 14 Comments »
by Hilary Hulsey Acknowledging history and its mistakes is important, but reaching beyond the stereotypes of racism, sexism, and religion can easily be achieved when good outweighs evil in the majestic onscreen musical of the Broadway hit, Cabin in the Sky (1943). In late 1940, Russian-American composer, Vernon Duke, introduced his greatest Broadway achievement to [...]
The Mill and the Cross, Weekend, Moneyball and My Afternoons with Margueritte on Monday Morning Diary (September 26)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2011 | 101 Comments »
by Sam Juliano It’s official. The fall season is now upon us, Halloween decorations are displaying, and the baseball playoffs are looming. It’s a time for football fans to fully immerse themselves, and for the Big Apple’s film buffs to avail themselves of one of the most celebrated of all annual film festivals. For opera [...]
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