Though little known in the English-speaking world, Erich Kästner’s slim novel originally translated in 1932 as “Fabian. The Story of a Moralist” is a brilliantly astute rendering of life in Weimar Berlin, straightforward and yet surreal, witty and perverse. To tackle it in cinema would seem like an impossible task, and while Dominik Graf’s “Fabian – Going to the Dogs” is to be commended for getting quite a lot right, the movie is blowsy where the book is succinct, awkwardly paced and portentous where Kästner is consistently rhythmical and unpretentious. Set in a teetering world of dissoluteness and disillusion in which a good man without professional ambition awakens to life’s promise only to have it all torn away, the story has modern resonances that Graf (“The Beloved Sisters” among many others) keenly underlines, and while the film’s core is affectingly developed, the rest tries too hard to expose...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing never saw his 1779 play “Nathan the Wise” performed. Apparently, the Roman Catholic Church in Germany didn’t care for its message of religious tolerance, which put Christianity on an even playing field with Judaism and Islam. And there was another problem with “Nathan” for the church. Lessing’s one true villain is a church leader in 12th-century Jerusalem who decrees that Nathan should be burned at the stake for having raised a baptized girl, Rachel, as a Jew. “Nathan the Wise” opened Wednesday at the Classic Stage Company, and the marvel of Lessing’s play is that there’s nothing.
- 4/13/2016
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Classic Stage Companywelcomestwo-time Tony Award nominee Stark SandsKinky Boots, Journey's Endand Academy Award winner F. Murray AbrahaminGotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan The Wise.The productionbegan performances onMarch 23 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Directed by Brian Kulick and adapted by Edward Kemp, Nathan The Wise will have its official press opening tonight, April 13, and play a limited engagement through Sunday, May 1.
- 4/13/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announced today that two-time Tony Award nominee Stark Sands Kinky Boots, Journey's End will join the cast of Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan The Wise, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, beginning performances Wednesday, March 23 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Directed by Brian Kulick and adapted by Edward Kemp, Nathan The Wise will have its official press opening Wednesday, April 13 and play a limited engagement through Sunday, May 1.
- 2/18/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Want to be on set with Ben Stiller and the cast of the long-awaited sequel to the classic 2001 comedy “Zoolander”? Check out the four fabulous acting gigs below! “Zooladner 2”Are you really, really, ridiculously good-looking? Grant Wilfley Casting and Paramount need talent for the second installment of the classic 2001 comedy starring Ben Stiller as the titular model, not to mention Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, and Will Ferrell. This paid gig shoots Nov. 19–24 somewhere in New York City. Trendy fashionista types are welcome! “Claire At The End Of The World”This short film by director-producer Ramsey Fendall needs three actors for a February 2016 shoot in NYC. The film follows Claire, who is moving into a new apartment while connecting with people from her past—until a terrifying incident overshadows the proceedings. The project offers compensation as per SAG-aftra’s Ultra Low Budget short film agreement. “Nathan The Wise”Want to make nearly $600 a week onstage?...
- 11/13/2015
- backstage.com
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There are works of art that affect in bulk, all at once; these are the aesthetic experiences that unify, that impose boundaries on the license of eye and ear. Other works of art achieve a dissociated and dissociating stylistic program; these are the works that cannot be experienced or understood as feats of synthesis, or as products of a single point of view.
While much of the art of the past century might be described as an effort toward a radical disaffiliation of elements—word and image, depth and surface, form and content—awareness of a quarrelsome relationship between two presumably incompatible ways of making...
“The key for me is finding some rhythm of the film, not so much in the plot from a traditional sense but, rather, from its internal rhythm.” —Matías Piñeiro
1
There are works of art that affect in bulk, all at once; these are the aesthetic experiences that unify, that impose boundaries on the license of eye and ear. Other works of art achieve a dissociated and dissociating stylistic program; these are the works that cannot be experienced or understood as feats of synthesis, or as products of a single point of view.
While much of the art of the past century might be described as an effort toward a radical disaffiliation of elements—word and image, depth and surface, form and content—awareness of a quarrelsome relationship between two presumably incompatible ways of making...
- 8/20/2012
- MUBI
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