With a repertoire of hardboiled classics under his belt (The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle) Huston hit paydirt with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre –a film that remains a standout in a studio known for its wealth of cinematic treasures. Taxi Driver (1976) – Dancing wi...
In the park, the antique stage "Guangfu Stage" has wonderful Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera performances every week, dynamically showing the charm of this art form. What impressed me most was the theater. The museum has a total of 237 seats and is equipped with advanced sound and light...
The family also own other properties aside from the Abbey; the two most notable were a smaller home near the village of Eryholme (gained through an inheritance from Robert's great grandmother), where they would have lived had it come to pass that they would have had to sell Downton Abbey ...
But – showing me a photograph of performer Dianne Pilkington, just cast in Mamma Mia! – he assures me it's organised chaos. This is the mysterious world of the casting director.They are rarely interviewed. Few people outside theatre, film and TV know who they are. Yet casting directors...
10. Now, I very much doubt that My Darling is a Foreigner will trade in imagery anywhere near as negative and xenophobic as this. Imagine the Japanese film showing its American character as a kooky, unscrupulous fanatic, and the trans-cultural relationship as boring and doomed! From the ...
InIt’s A Wonderful Lifethe film’s protagonist George Bailey, facing a crisis of faith, is visited by his guardian angel, and shown an alternate reality where he doesn’t exist. The experience gives meaning to George’s life, showing him his own importance to others. With theincreasing sca...
s film would have done the same thing had they faced similar treatment. The second category of Højbjerg’s tier-system suggests “extended naturality”: literally exaggeration. Following Antoinette’s torment at the opera, she catatonically walks down a corridor and out into the manicur...
(It was lovely to come across a video recently showingDavid Bowie smiling at that rehearsal.) Near the song’s end, George soars into a smooth if equally impassioned falsetto with the ease and grace Mercury excelled at, bringing a raw vulnerability to a raucous, jaunty rock and roll ...
Kaiser stars as Tamino in Kenneth Branagh's film of The Magic Flute and will reprise this Mozart role later in the Met season. He appeared as Narraboth in Lyric Opera of Chicago's Salome last season, a performance about which the always reliable David Shengold wrote, "The most consistently...
Cole actually painted the entire series twice. The first time was as a commissioned work, but Cole wasnot happy to learn the patron had no intention of publicly showing the work, so in 1842 Cole painted the series again so it could be seen by the public. If you search around you can ...