Mark and Aaron continue the French 1930s series by exploring the early career of Jean Renoir, easily the most recognizable director from the period. We begin with the beginning, by looking at his origins and childhood. We look at his early silent films, his first sound adaptations, and a couple of films from the middle of the decade where he began to settle into his poetic realist style.
7:00 – Why Renoir?
9:30 – Origins of Renoir
20:00 – Silent Renoir (Catherine, Whirlpool of Fate, Nana, Charleston Parade, The Little Match Girl)
51:30 – Early Sound (On purge bébé, La Chienne, Boudu Saved From Drowning)
1:21:30 – Poetic Realism in Mid-Thirties (Toni, A Day in the Country)
French 1930s Episode 1 Jean Renoir Taschen book Republic of Images Renoir Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago DVD Beaver – Jean Renoir Collector’s Edition Aaron West – A Day in the Country David Blakeslee – A Day in the Country...
7:00 – Why Renoir?
9:30 – Origins of Renoir
20:00 – Silent Renoir (Catherine, Whirlpool of Fate, Nana, Charleston Parade, The Little Match Girl)
51:30 – Early Sound (On purge bébé, La Chienne, Boudu Saved From Drowning)
1:21:30 – Poetic Realism in Mid-Thirties (Toni, A Day in the Country)
French 1930s Episode 1 Jean Renoir Taschen book Republic of Images Renoir Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago DVD Beaver – Jean Renoir Collector’s Edition Aaron West – A Day in the Country David Blakeslee – A Day in the Country...
- 12/23/2016
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
Chicago – In founding and being an artistic director of a theater company for over 30 years, Richard Cotovsky of Mary-Arrchie Co. has a few stories to tell. In Part Two of an interview with the “Godfather of Chicago Storefront Theater” Cotovsky talks about the annual Abbie Hoffman Died for our Sins Festival, and the various acts of producing memorable stage productions.
Rich Cotovsky is a lifelong Chicagoan, growing up and currently living in the Rogers Park neighborhood. He was a founding member of Mary-Arrchie Co. – an amalgamation of parent’s names from one of his early acting students – and has served as its Artistic Director since it began in 1986. His award-winning theatre company has served up gritty and memorable productions for 30 years, but their current show, “American Buffalo” – which features Cotovsky in a lead role – will be their final show. The building that houses the space the company has had since the late 1980s,...
Rich Cotovsky is a lifelong Chicagoan, growing up and currently living in the Rogers Park neighborhood. He was a founding member of Mary-Arrchie Co. – an amalgamation of parent’s names from one of his early acting students – and has served as its Artistic Director since it began in 1986. His award-winning theatre company has served up gritty and memorable productions for 30 years, but their current show, “American Buffalo” – which features Cotovsky in a lead role – will be their final show. The building that houses the space the company has had since the late 1980s,...
- 2/17/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Glenn here bringing you some more trivia from this year’s best original song category. Obviously, I could be mistaken about some of these, but, well, in which case la la la, not listening, move along.
Trivia #1 – 2016 marks the first time in Oscar history that two documentaries have ever been nominated in a category outside of the non-fiction categories. While documentaries have been nominated in the original song category in the past – Mondo Cane in ’62 being the first, I believe – and Hoop Dreams scored a best editing nomination in 1995, this year both The Hunting Ground’s “Til It Happens to You” and Racing Extinction’s “Manta Ray” make for a first that two have been cited.
Trivia #2 – This year’s nomination for “Manta Ray” is the third nomination for an enviro-doc in this category in the last decade. While Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth...
Trivia #1 – 2016 marks the first time in Oscar history that two documentaries have ever been nominated in a category outside of the non-fiction categories. While documentaries have been nominated in the original song category in the past – Mondo Cane in ’62 being the first, I believe – and Hoop Dreams scored a best editing nomination in 1995, this year both The Hunting Ground’s “Til It Happens to You” and Racing Extinction’s “Manta Ray” make for a first that two have been cited.
Trivia #2 – This year’s nomination for “Manta Ray” is the third nomination for an enviro-doc in this category in the last decade. While Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth...
- 2/10/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
While diverse, this year's nominees in the Academy Awards' Best Original Song category are competing on an even playing ground. Most of the writers and performs are first-time nominees, with two-time Best Documentary winner J. Ralph and, now, eight-time Best Original Song Nominee Diane Warren as the exceptions. Still, it's an Oscar-winner free game and has many hitmakers vying for a very rare award for musicians to nab.
From booming ballads to sexy themes for Bdsm love stories to emotional rap tracks, this year's roster of nominees are representative of...
From booming ballads to sexy themes for Bdsm love stories to emotional rap tracks, this year's roster of nominees are representative of...
- 1/14/2016
- Rollingstone.com
It was another year full of great classical music. Here are my favorites from 2014, new releases only, no reissues.
1. Magnificat/Philip Cave The Tudors at Prayer (Linn) This superbly programmed and performed album contains eight Latin sacred choral works (specifically motets, mostly votive antiphons and psalm motets) by John Taverner (c.1490-1545), Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), William Mundy (c.1529-1591), Robert White (c.1538-1574), and William Byrd (c.1540-1621). Active during the period of greatest religious upheaval in English history, they kept writing richly layered polyphony despite changing fashions (though the later composers listed would also provide chordal English-language anthems as needed). The mightiest work here, Mundy's Vox Patris caelestis, leads off the program. The text, speaking as it does of "flowering vines" and their "heavenly ambrosial scent," practically begs for an elaborate polyphonic setting, and Mundy provided one that is among the most exquisite works of the 16th century.
1. Magnificat/Philip Cave The Tudors at Prayer (Linn) This superbly programmed and performed album contains eight Latin sacred choral works (specifically motets, mostly votive antiphons and psalm motets) by John Taverner (c.1490-1545), Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), William Mundy (c.1529-1591), Robert White (c.1538-1574), and William Byrd (c.1540-1621). Active during the period of greatest religious upheaval in English history, they kept writing richly layered polyphony despite changing fashions (though the later composers listed would also provide chordal English-language anthems as needed). The mightiest work here, Mundy's Vox Patris caelestis, leads off the program. The text, speaking as it does of "flowering vines" and their "heavenly ambrosial scent," practically begs for an elaborate polyphonic setting, and Mundy provided one that is among the most exquisite works of the 16th century.
- 12/28/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Only a couple of the barriers crossed in Jean Renoir’s La grande illusion are physical; the film is more concerned with the abstract concepts – the big illusions – that are wedged between the characters. The most persistent is class, but barriers of nationality, religion and sex can be just as entrenched. Renoir, the great humanist, looked past these distinctions and saw the good, or at least the humanity, that such categories can obscure. He set up barriers only to blur them – to undermine them. The characters in the movie are not perfect, but the film never makes fun of them; it looks up to all of them, regardless.
Perhaps the most enduring film in the history of French cinema (i.e., the history of cinema), La grande illusion is intrinsically linked with its own history. Historical context for a movie should not necessarily affect how one reads the text,...
Only a couple of the barriers crossed in Jean Renoir’s La grande illusion are physical; the film is more concerned with the abstract concepts – the big illusions – that are wedged between the characters. The most persistent is class, but barriers of nationality, religion and sex can be just as entrenched. Renoir, the great humanist, looked past these distinctions and saw the good, or at least the humanity, that such categories can obscure. He set up barriers only to blur them – to undermine them. The characters in the movie are not perfect, but the film never makes fun of them; it looks up to all of them, regardless.
Perhaps the most enduring film in the history of French cinema (i.e., the history of cinema), La grande illusion is intrinsically linked with its own history. Historical context for a movie should not necessarily affect how one reads the text,...
- 4/23/2012
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
A 111-year-old film which depicts a character from Bleak House, was found by an archivist at the British Film Institute
An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens.
Bryony Dixon was researching early films of China when she noticed an entry in a catalogue referring to The Death of Poor Joe, which she realised could refer to a character in Dickens' Bleak House.
Not expecting to find a film to match the catalogue entry - most movies this old have not survived - Dixon says she was astonished to discover the film was actually in the BFI's collection, albeit under a different title.
The discovery was announced on Friday, just over a month after the bicentenary of Dickens' birth was celebrated around the world.
An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens.
Bryony Dixon was researching early films of China when she noticed an entry in a catalogue referring to The Death of Poor Joe, which she realised could refer to a character in Dickens' Bleak House.
Not expecting to find a film to match the catalogue entry - most movies this old have not survived - Dixon says she was astonished to discover the film was actually in the BFI's collection, albeit under a different title.
The discovery was announced on Friday, just over a month after the bicentenary of Dickens' birth was celebrated around the world.
- 3/9/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has won the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. She is the first recipient of the 500,000 kroner ($93,352) award, which was handed out October 19 at a ceremony in Odense, Andersen's hometown.
The prize is given to a person who can be compared to Andersen, the Danish writer who was born in 1805 and wrote some 160 fairy tales and poems before his death in 1875.
Rowling said the author of such classics as "The Little Mermaid", "The Little Match Girl," "Thumbelina," and "The Ugly Duckling" had "created indestructible, eternal characters."
Rowling herself has made a significant contribution to the world of literature - seven books about the boy wizard have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages.
The prize is given to a person who can be compared to Andersen, the Danish writer who was born in 1805 and wrote some 160 fairy tales and poems before his death in 1875.
Rowling said the author of such classics as "The Little Mermaid", "The Little Match Girl," "Thumbelina," and "The Ugly Duckling" had "created indestructible, eternal characters."
Rowling herself has made a significant contribution to the world of literature - seven books about the boy wizard have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages.
- 10/19/2010
- by Associated Press and Cineplex Staff
- Cineplex
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