The film opens with the arrival of a 30ish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter) and her young daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), on a stormy gray beach. They have been rowed ashore, along with Ada’s piano, to meet a local bachelor named Stewart (Sam Neill), who has arranged to marry her. ...
The film is based on the autobiography ofWladyslaw Szpilman, who was playing Chopin on a Warsaw radio station when the first German bombs fell. Szpilman’s family was prosperous and seemingly secure, and his immediate reaction was, “I’m not going anywhere.” We watch as the Nazi noose tig...
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Kousei Arima has been a piano prodigy since childhood, but his life comes crashing down when his mother passes away, resulting in a mental breakdown that renders him unable to hear the sound of his own music. Kousei resigns himself to living a life devoid of his passion for music and the...
August Wilson's powerful, Pulitzer-winning 1987 playThe Piano Lessonhas been adapted into a film, with the Washington family at the helm — it's the directorial debut for Malcolm Washington (who also co-wrote the adaptation with Virgil Williams), his brother John David Washington stars, and ...
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The festival, which runs through Monday, September 2nd, will include the world premieres of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Edward Berger’s Conclave, and Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson.This year’s festival includes 60 feature films, shorts, and revival programs.“This brief weekend of...
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There are toothless ogres, snarling hellhounds, unsightly elves, heaving steampunk machines, a haunted piano and a dismal Gothic castle where rowdy revelers look like grotesque, rubber-masked drunken rejects from the Star Wars cantina. A snowman’s face gets melted when it’s smushed onto a ...