no one's seen Petr Wiegl's Winterreise that saw the previous post, or at least felt like commenting. You should see it if you have a chance, and like your Romanticism straight up, no chaser.

Weigl's done a lot of filmed opera and other films using classical music, as his IMDB page attests. This film uses Schubert's Winterreise as its soundtrack, ( Read more... )

on television, on the Sundance Channel in fact, and after I saw it once, when they showed it again I went back and watched it some more.

It's a Korean movie, called The Restless in English, and Joong-cheon or "Midheaven" in Korean. It was directed by Jo Dong-oh, with the screenplay written by Jo and also by Choi Hee-dae. Technically it falls into ( Read more... )

Yesterday stringwoman and I took the afternoon off so I could be her chauffeur while she car-shopped. Then we went and saw Angels and DemonsLike most American movies these days, there's a notice near the end of the credits to the affect that the American Humane Society kept their beady eyes on the crew and made sure no animals were hurt. Given the quality of ( Read more... )