time4time (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Berlin wall - 20th anniversary concert: Daniel Bahrenboim, Klaus Maria Brandauer (narrator) - A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 - Arnold Schönberg Die Staatskapelle Berlin unter Leitung von Daniel Barenboim und der Staatsopernchor (Sprecher Klaus Maria Brandauer) beim Konzert „20 Jahre Mauerfall“ vor dem Brandenburger Tor mit Wagner, Schönberg, Beethoven und Goldmann. The narration...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
" The Russia House " ( Fred Schepisi , 1990) "Nowadays, you have to think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being!" Barley Scott Blair ( Sean Connery ), barely getting-by book publisher, deep in his cups at a Russian Book Fair, seals his fate with those words. He soon finds himself wanted by both British Intelligence and the Russians, both looking for a hero in a...
Runs like a gay (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Happy Birthday to Klaus Maria Brandauer 65 today There's an obvious birthday to celebrate today, however as much better bloggers will be concentrating on her I'd like to concentrate on her Out of Africa co-star (I think his performance is slightly less cliched and therefore better as well!). Klaus is currently leaving large shadows over his put-upon family in Coppola's Tetro. Can't wait until that...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Tetro , featuring Francis Ford Coppola's first completely original screenplay since 1974's Oscar-winning The Conversation , has to shoulder an awfully heavy burden. But for the first two-thirds anyway, it carries itself impeccably. Vincent Gallo plays Tetro, a man who has divorced himself from his family, especially his brilliant but ruthless father, a renowned symphony conductor (Klaus Maria Brandauer)....
MoviesOnline! (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
“Tetro” is visionary director Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since “The Conversation” nearly four decades ago and it’s his most personal film yet. Arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, it is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts, disturbing secrets and complex...
Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
In Francis Ford Coppola's latest, Vincent Gallo and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich play two estranged brothers in a creative family of Italians torn apart by tragedy and by a domineering father (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Tetro the elder brother has retreated to Argentina where he carries on a Bohemian lifestyle but seems to be squandering his talent as a writer. When his younger brother Bennie shows up to...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Francis Ford Coppola may never again craft a classic like The Godfather , but after years spent toiling on bland studio fare - as well as 2007's ambitious, muddled Youth Without Youth - the director regains his mojo with Tetro , a saga of familial strife and Oedipal conflict equally indebted to '60s euro cinema and the theatrical traditions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller . An independently...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tetro is the second film of what Francis Ford Coppola openly calls his “second career,” a paean to the dysfunctions, jealousies and other deeply-felt emotions brewing in a family full of egotistical artists. It, like 2007’s Youth Without Youth, stands as a far cry from the for-hire studio schlock he regularly churned out before his decade long hiatus. Similarly, the film owes less...
MTV News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent. Vincent Gallo in "Tetro" Photo: American Zoetrope Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes...
Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tetro American Zoetrope Beauty Trailers & Mo | Official Website A ship docks in Buenos Aires and a young man decked out in a crisp white uniform disembarks and walks amongst the dark shadows of the city's streets. He doesn't speak the language. Holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound . Don't call him Al, call him Bennie (fresh, yet classic faced Alden Ehrenreich ...
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