[usc goose]

together (a chinese movie)

 

[blessingx]

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Originally posted by SigmaOrionis The Competition is a pretty good movie about some virtuoso pianists who are trying to win a competition. It has a romantic backstory but the piano music is really good. Oh the star of this movie is Richard Dreyfuss.

Good choice. Hard to come by, but shows up on late night TV every once in a while.

Depending on how you define "classical", the Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi films can help with breaking through to Philip Glass. Not about him, though.

 

[Audio Redneck]

I saw The Pianist last week and thought it was a good WWII/Polish History/Holocost movie, but only so-so as the biography of a musican.

Amedeaus and Dearest Beloved are definate must watches (even if acurracy is questionable)

Isn't Mr. Holland's Opus fiction? And Mrs. Redneck says conductors never hold the baton in the left hand.

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is a classical musician just one that plays classical music? (Benny Goodman would qualify as he played Carnegie ) or one that time considers the best?

Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie played Carnegie, does that mean they are classical musicians?

 

[Gergor]

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Originally posted by Audio Redneck I saw The Pianist last week and thought it was a good WWII/Polish History/Holocost movie, but only so-so as the biography of a musican.

I had "Schindler's List" in mind when I was watching "The Pianist", and IMO "The Pianist" is nowhere as good as "Schindler's List" as a Holocost movie.

 

[Audio Redneck]

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Originally posted by Gergor I had "Schindler's List" in mind when I was watching "The Pianist", and IMO "The Pianist" is nowhere as good as "Schindler's List" as a Holocost movie.

You've got me on that one. But then again the perspective is from one who managed to escape and hide out most of the war. I think it also well reflected the "I can't believe they are going to do that to us" mentality of alot of the European Jews who didn't fight back until it was too late.

 

[blessingx]

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Originally posted by Gergor I had "Schindler's List" in mind when I was watching "The Pianist", and IMO "The Pianist" is nowhere as good as "Schindler's List" as a Holocost movie.

Not to threadcap, but it's difficult to think either summed up enough to displace the other as a "Holocaust" movie. There both pretty small outlooks. In fact they're both biographies as much as social commentary on the Holocaust.

 

[Gergor]

You're right, what I meant was as movies using the same background (Holocost), "the pianist" is not as good (a movie) as the "Schindler's List", IMO.

 

[Audio Redneck]

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Originally posted by blessingx Not to threadcap, but it's difficult to think either summed up enough to displace the other as a "Holocaust" movie. There both pretty small outlooks. In fact they're both biographies as much as social commentary on the Holocaust.

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Originally posted by Gergor You're right, what I meant was as movies using the same background (Holocost), "the pianist" is not as good (a movie) as the "Schindler's List", IMO.

Agreed on both comments. But taken on its own and looking at its setting, occupied Poland, I felt it did a good job of addressing many often overlooked aspects of WWII/Holocost, even though 99% of the movie was from the perspective of the lead character (the russian pow camp is the only scene I can think of that he wasn't in.)

 

[daycart1]

Here are some more:

"Impromptu", with Judy Davis, Hugh whatshisname and Daniel d Lewis on Chopin and Sand--it was pretty good, but not much music.

"I forget the title" on Robert Schumann with Kate Hepburn as Clara. This is pretty sappy, but worth seeing. Some longish snatches of Schumann's and Brahms's music.

I still need to see the movie on Liszt with Jorge Bolet doing the soundtrack.

Then there is the Ken Russell movie on Mahler which was quite entertaining--more for spectacle than music.