"The Night of the Hunter" may hold back from showing any murders onscreen, but that doesn't make Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) any less creepy. A fanatical Christian that's equally misogynist, Powell roams the Great Depression Ohio valley, marrying widows before robbing them of both of their largesse and lives. The not-at-all-good reverend sees no conflict between his faith and his black widowing. After all, the Bible is full of killings.
While Powell is said to have a high body count, only two of his killings are directly featured in "The Night of the Hunter." The film opens with him fleeing from one, catching a glimpse of his victim's lifeless legs from her basement door. Powell then marries Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) to find money stolen and hidden away by her late husband. After brainwashing her into his faith, he disposes of her. She ends up being so robbed of...
While Powell is said to have a high body count, only two of his killings are directly featured in "The Night of the Hunter." The film opens with him fleeing from one, catching a glimpse of his victim's lifeless legs from her basement door. Powell then marries Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) to find money stolen and hidden away by her late husband. After brainwashing her into his faith, he disposes of her. She ends up being so robbed of...
- 12/17/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Philippe Lesage's second feature film The Demons opens with a movement from Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" which is a rather great encapsulation of the movie which begins with a beautiful easy going introduction which crescendos carefully before exploding and then concluding as quietly as it began.
The Demons starts with an introduction to a group of children in an early summer setting. We are lulled into the normalcy of life with observations of school activities, first crushes, bullying (some instances of this more dramatic than others) and afternoons at the pool. Lesage captures all of this with the keen eye of a documentarian; observations of events that are generally overlooked by most filmmakers but which are essential to Lesage's storytelling.
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The Demons starts with an introduction to a group of children in an early summer setting. We are lulled into the normalcy of life with observations of school activities, first crushes, bullying (some instances of this more dramatic than others) and afternoons at the pool. Lesage captures all of this with the keen eye of a documentarian; observations of events that are generally overlooked by most filmmakers but which are essential to Lesage's storytelling.
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- 12/9/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Music lovers will love to watch BBC Two’s “First Night of the Proms 2015,” which is currently streaming on FilmOn. The television program gives viewers an in-home concert of classical music. The program takes place in the Royal Albert Hall and will also mark the 150 anniversaries of two Nordic composers and the world premiere of “Dadaville” by British composer Gary Carpenter. The event also features soloist Lars Vogt as he performs Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 20.” Other performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus include William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast,” Jean Sibelius’ version of the classic Belshazzar story, and Carl Nielsen’s “Maskarade.” The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus is [ Read More ]
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- 8/1/2015
- by monique
- ShockYa
First Night of the Proms: BBC Two, 8pm
The music festival held at London's famed Royal Albert Hall returns for its 2015 run.
Amongst tonight's entertainment, the programme will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of composers Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen - and there's a world premiere too, in the form of Dadaville by Gary Carpenter.
You've Got a Friend: The Carole King Story: BBC Four, 8pm
Carole King stole our hearts with her album, 'Tapestry' many years ago, and tonight she will reveal all about her life.
The documentary follows King from her upbringing in Brooklyn, marrying and divorcing Gerry Goffin, to her success later on in life after being the first woman to win prestigious prize Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress for her songwriting.
Stacey Dooley Investigates: BBC Three, 9pm
Stacey investigates current affairs affecting young people around the globe, and in...
The music festival held at London's famed Royal Albert Hall returns for its 2015 run.
Amongst tonight's entertainment, the programme will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of composers Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen - and there's a world premiere too, in the form of Dadaville by Gary Carpenter.
You've Got a Friend: The Carole King Story: BBC Four, 8pm
Carole King stole our hearts with her album, 'Tapestry' many years ago, and tonight she will reveal all about her life.
The documentary follows King from her upbringing in Brooklyn, marrying and divorcing Gerry Goffin, to her success later on in life after being the first woman to win prestigious prize Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress for her songwriting.
Stacey Dooley Investigates: BBC Three, 9pm
Stacey investigates current affairs affecting young people around the globe, and in...
- 7/17/2015
- Digital Spy
When people want to minimize this thing I do for a living, they like to quote Jean Sibelius, "Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic." It's a bit of a lie, but that hasn't stopped social observers as keen as Chad Ochocinco from making the cliched declaration. While it may not be cast in bronze or carved from marble, Steve James' "Life Itself" stands as a cinematic monument to its subject, a much more fitting celebration of Roger Ebert than anything that might have been produced by...
- 1/21/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
The son of a vicar (and Charles Darwin was his great-uncle), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) became one of the most popular English composers. He studied under Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry at the Royal College of Music, but also read history and music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he palled around with the philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. He also went to Germany for lessons with Max Bruch, but ultimately rejected the 19th century German Romantic style Friendships with fellow Rcm students Gustav Holst and Leopold Stokowski later bore more fruit, in different ways: Stokowski, who moved to the United States, became Rvw's biggest supporter there; Holst and Vaughan Williams critiqued each others' work and joined in the study and collection of English folk songs. "The knowledge of our folk songs did not so much discover for us something new, but uncovered something which had been hidden by foreign matter,...
- 10/12/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Influential American film critic behind the 'auteur theory'
Jean Sibelius once claimed that "no statue has ever been put up to a critic". If there were such a proposal, then Andrew Sarris, who has died aged 83 from complications after a fall, would be among the first to be honoured. It was Sarris, inspired by François Truffaut's article Une Certain Tendance du Cinéma Français, published in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1954, who eight years later formulated the "auteur theory". Sarris coined that term in his 1962 essay Notes on the Auteur Theory, which he developed later in his influential book The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968.
The much-misused term "auteur" was applied mostly to film directors working as contractors for the Hollywood studios who, nevertheless, revealed their own distinctive style and personal vision. Primarily, Sarris made American critics, and eventually audiences, aware of the importance of the director. Hitherto, reviews were more focused on the stars,...
Jean Sibelius once claimed that "no statue has ever been put up to a critic". If there were such a proposal, then Andrew Sarris, who has died aged 83 from complications after a fall, would be among the first to be honoured. It was Sarris, inspired by François Truffaut's article Une Certain Tendance du Cinéma Français, published in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1954, who eight years later formulated the "auteur theory". Sarris coined that term in his 1962 essay Notes on the Auteur Theory, which he developed later in his influential book The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968.
The much-misused term "auteur" was applied mostly to film directors working as contractors for the Hollywood studios who, nevertheless, revealed their own distinctive style and personal vision. Primarily, Sarris made American critics, and eventually audiences, aware of the importance of the director. Hitherto, reviews were more focused on the stars,...
- 6/22/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Was Monty Norman, who wrote the James Bond theme, a secret fan of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius?
A continuation of an occasional series featuring my serendipitous discovery of musical connections, cross-fertilisations and unusual thematic ancestries that centuries of musical history have managed to suppress – until now. This week: Jean Sibelius and James Bond. Idling through part of the "J" box of Bis Record's brilliant complete Sibelius edition (each box gives you one initial of Sibelius's whole name) that – apart from including the best, most faithful and most terrifying Luonnotar on disc – also contains Sibelius's 1904 piece Cassazione, a little-known orchestral work written around the time of the first version of the Violin Concerto. It starts with a typical Sibelian shimmer of strings playing tremolo. And the music they perform is the riff from the James Bond theme.
Now unless you've got Spotify (in which case, see Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Cassazione,...
A continuation of an occasional series featuring my serendipitous discovery of musical connections, cross-fertilisations and unusual thematic ancestries that centuries of musical history have managed to suppress – until now. This week: Jean Sibelius and James Bond. Idling through part of the "J" box of Bis Record's brilliant complete Sibelius edition (each box gives you one initial of Sibelius's whole name) that – apart from including the best, most faithful and most terrifying Luonnotar on disc – also contains Sibelius's 1904 piece Cassazione, a little-known orchestral work written around the time of the first version of the Violin Concerto. It starts with a typical Sibelian shimmer of strings playing tremolo. And the music they perform is the riff from the James Bond theme.
Now unless you've got Spotify (in which case, see Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Cassazione,...
- 9/15/2010
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911) transformed the symphony. One could say that he made it modern. He insisted to fellow symphonic master Jean Sibelius, "A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything." One of the effects of that belief was that Mahler wrote music embodying his neuroses more than any previous symphonic composer, but his view of the symphony was expansive not only in meaning but in sound and form. His Third is in the vicinity of 97-98 minutes, with six movements rather than the normal four. The Sixth's instrumentation uses four flutes and piccolo (with two flutes also doubling on piccolo), four oboes (two doubling on English horn), three clarinets including bass clarinet, four bassoons, contrabassoon, eight horns, six trumpets, three tenor trombones, bass trombone, bass tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, triangle, rattle, tam-tam, glockenspiel, cowbells, low-pitched bells, birch brush, hammer, xylophone, two harps, celesta,...
- 7/7/2010
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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