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ArtsJournal: music
2017-04-18 14:31:13
Michael Ballhaus, 81, Cinematographer For Scorsese And Fassbinder
"Much of the visual dynamism associated with Fassbinder and Scorsese must be credited also to Ballhaus. There are the complicated but elegant compositions in Fassbinder, for example, where closeups, reaction shots and the simultaneous movement of actors are often incorporated into a single frame without recourse to cutting ... There are the accelerated zooms and dolly shots in Scorsese’s films, where the camera rushes toward a face or an object to afford it special emphasis."
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-03-30 18:03:04
'We Didn't Know What We Were Doing' - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Leading Actress Talks About Surviving The Messes He Made
"His muse was Hanna Schygulla, who brought her enigmatic, haughty allure to 23 of his film and television works. Now 74, with a wild mane of grey hair, she has collaborated with directors such as Godard, Béla Tarr and Carlos Saura ... But she only ever gets asked about one person. Seated in the window of an empty restaurant in west Berlin, she tells me: 'It's because I'm one of the survivors.'"
2016-06-13 17:00:59
One ringy-dingy
[…] paired Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone with Poulenc’s La voix humaine (a familiar combination), and staged them within an immersive setting at Café Tallulah on Columbus Avenue. In light of our addiction to smart phones and tablets, the prescience of these composers is quite remarkable. Composed in the 1940s and 1950s, both pieces provoke and participate in a wide range of 20th century imagery as diverse as the gossipy teenagers from Bye Bye Birdie to Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. How keenly both Menotti and Poulenc perceived the future, and the alienation inherent to technological mediums of communication. While Poulenc’s La voix humaine conjures images of dependence and obsession, Menotti’s The Telephone considers the more comedic aspects of Eros and interruption. In both pieces, the body’s untidy longings are corralled, teased, and limited by the whizzing efficiency of machines. However, as contemporary as these concerns might be, […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-03-04 18:20:26
Opera Essentials: The Importance of Being Earnest
[…] a seemingly tireless energy and a delight in the absurd. Barry has long been drawn to opera, and started work on his first, The Intelligence Park , in 1981; it tells a sad tale of Baroque composer Paradies who falls in love with his lead castrato. He followed it with the TV opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (inspired by Handel ’s oratorio The Triumph of Time and Truth), an adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder ’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and the miniature monologue La Plus Forte . He is following his fifth, The Importance of Being Earnest , with Alice’s Adventures Under Ground , written for his friend Barbara Hannigan . ‘A Kind of Hysteria’ Barry’s music for Wilde ’s ‘trivial comedy for serious people’ is a magical medley of different musical styles, inspired by what Barry calls the play’s ‘kind of hysteria’. Algernon’s […]
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