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Posts Tagged "opera"
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A Night at the Opera ***** (1935, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle) – Classic Movie Review 3061
Otis B Driftwood: ‘It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause.’ Fiorello: ‘You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Santay Claus!’ Director Sam Wood’s hilarious 1935 Marx Brothers comedy […]
Rigoletto **** (1946, Tito Gobbi, Marcella Govoni, Mario Filippeschi, Giulio Neri, Lina Pagliughi) – Classic Movie Review 2545
Beautifully shot (in black and white by Anchise Brizzi), set and costumed (by Bruno Nofri), director Carmine Gallone’s 1946 film version of the Giuseppe Verdi opera favourite is extra fine. Tito Gobbi (1913-84) is extraordinary […]
Rigoletto **** (1982, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Luciano Pavarotti) – Classic Movie Review 2541
Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s 1982 film is an enormous, undiluted pleasure for opera lovers. Luciano Pavarotti takes on the Duke of Mantua and Ingvar Wixell the grand title role of the hunchback court jester Rigoletto in the […]
Senso ***** (1954, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog) – Classic Movie Review 2410
One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]
The Tales of Hoffmann ***** (1951, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars) – Classic Movie Review 1761
Writer/producer/director team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger set about in 1951 to try to repeat the success of their all-time great dance film The Red Shoes (1948) and cast Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina […]
Interrupted Melody **** (1955, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 495
Oscar nominated Eleanor Parker gives a most touching performance in one of the highpoints of her career as real-life Australian opera diva Marjorie Lawrence who, after her debut at the Paris Opera and at the […]
The Phantom of the Opera **** (1962, Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 389
‘BENEATH HIS MASK… the Grotesque Face of Horror Unimaginable! INSIDE HIS HEART… the Desperate Desire for Beauty and Love!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1962 British remake of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is […]