Recent Posts
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
- Testosterone ** (2003, David Sutcliffe, Celina Font, Antonio Sabato Jr, Jennifer Coolidge, Sonia Braga) – Classic Movie Review 13,246
- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari *** (2005, Judson Pearce Morgan, Daamen J Krall, Doug Jones, Lauren Birkell) – Classic Movie Review 13,245
Posts Tagged "composer biopic"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "composer biopic".
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan **** (1953, Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Peter Finch, Eileen Herlie, Dinah Sheridan, Isabel Dean) – Classic Movie Review 10,827
Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1953 The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan [The Great Gilbert and Sullivan] is very jolly musical biopic entertainment, low on story, high on lovely operetta excerpts, charmingly sung and staged, attractively played […]
Immortal Beloved * (1994, Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Marco Hofschneider) – Classic Movie Review 10,354
Writer-director Bernard Rose’s fumbled 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a plush but pretty tedious historical biopic, with Gary Oldman bravely battling miscasting as musical ‘genius’ Ludwig van Beethoven, with the mystery of the composer’s Unsterbliche […]
Song of Scheherazade ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8832
Writer-director Walter Reisch’s Universal International Pictures’ amiably soppy and campy Technicolor extravaganza Song of Scheherazade (1947) is a fictionalised biopic of the Russian composer Nikolai ‘Nicky’ Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), who finds his muse in dancing lady […]
Lisztomania ** (1975, Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman) – Classic Movie Review 5451
After The Music Lovers (1970) and Mahler (1973), here we go with still more music and sex from writer-director Ken Russell in 1975. So stand by for Russell’s smutty over-grown schoolboy representation of composer and pianist Franz Liszt […]
The Music Lovers **** (1970, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Gable, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 5445
Director Ken Russell and screen-writer Melvyn Bragg tell the story of poor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) in this lusty 1970 British movie. Russell described it as ‘the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a […]
Mahler *** (1973, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin) – Classic Movie Review 5,444
Ken Russell’s 1973 film biopic of the composer Mahler is one of his typically extravagant movies. Robert Powell is impressive as a Gustav Mahler obsessed with love and career. Georgina Hale won the 1975 BAFTA […]
Song without End * (1960, Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 4601
The 1960 musical biopic Song without End is a famously awful version of the life of composer Franz Liszt and his scandalous romance with Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein. Dirk Bogarde and Capucine are horribly miscast and […]