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Posts Tagged "composer biopic"
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You Will Remember ** (1941, Robert Morley, Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Hyson) – Classic Movie Review 13,384
The forgotten 1941 British musical drama film You Will Remember portrays the life of the popular English musical comedy composer Leslie Stuart, and stars Robert Morley, Emlyn Williams, and Dorothy Hyson. Director Jack Raymond’s forgotten […]
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 […]