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Sviatoslav Richter's Teldec Recordings Reissued
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Sviatoslav Richter: The Teldec Recordings (Teldec/Warner Classics)
This three-cd set returns to print some fairly fascinating items from the discography of the most venerated pianist of his generation. It’s an import from England that’s distributed by Naxos; at its $24.99 list price, it’s a great bargain, and thus easily worth acquiring even if you already have one of its discs.
Baroque authenticists may sneer at Richter’s playing, on disc one, of J.S. Bach’s Piano Concertos in D major, Bwv 1054, and in G minor, Bwv 1058, accompanied by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto conducted by Yuri Bashmet. I enjoy it, with some qualification. Richter plays Bwv 1054 rather sternly, though with quiet elegance in the slow movement; in the outer movements, though, his rhythms are foursquare, lacking the vivacity we now expect in this repertoire, and though he does play a few ornaments, he’s pretty restrained in that department. »
- SteveHoltje
Extended Thoughts on ‘Fantasia 2000′
19 May 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, James Algar, Francis Glebas, and Paul and Gaetan Brazzi
Starring Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Penn and Teller, Angela Lansbury
Achieving balance is one of the great high-wire acts of family films. Some filmmakers attempt to make universal pieces of entertainment, to appeal to adults as well as to children. Many don’t, but the best of the films from Walt Disney Pictures succeed at that balance, or at least try very hard and come close to succeeding. The most obvious example of a group of people trying to make something as accessible for kids as it is for adults, something that everyone can enjoy on some level, are the two (as of now) Fantasia films. Both movies work within the medium of animation to transcend commonly considered tropes of storytelling. But the people behind both films went about »
- Josh Spiegel
Where The Wild Things Are Author Maurice Sendak Dies at Age 83
8 May 2012 7:14 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Maurice Sendak, the author best known for Where the Wild Things Are, has passed away at the age of 83. When he was 12, Sendak saw Walt Disney's Fantasia, and was inspired to be come an illustrator. He worked for other authors before he wrote and illustrated his own children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, in 1963. He then won the Newberry Award, a distinguished honor for children's literature, for illustrating Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1966 book Zlateh the Goat. Sendak was deeply protective of having Where the Wild Things Are adapted into a movie, but finally gave his blessing to director Spike Jonze, who created the wonderful 2009 adaptation. Sendak's books have touched the lives of multiple generations, and he will be greatly missed. Please click over to The New York Times for a full obituary chronicling Sendak's rich life. After the jump, you can find Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs's 2009 documentary »
- Matt Goldberg
Extended Thoughts on ‘Fantasia’
14 April 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Samuel Armstrong; James Algar; Bill Roberts and Paul Satterfield; Ben Sharpsteen and David Hand; Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, and Ford Beebe; T. Hee and Norm Ferguson; & Wilfred Jackson
Starring Deems Taylor
A few weeks ago, I read a great article by Drew McWeeny of HitFix wherein, while describing how his two children responded to one of the first and most important Disney live-action films, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he posed this question: are Disney movies automatically “for kids”? This is, unfortunately, a very common criticism levied by people who either should know better or don’t educate themselves on the history of film, let alone Disney films. You know what criticism I mean: “Oh, that’s just for kids.” “It’s a kids’ movie. Who cares?” Sometimes, when I nitpick some aspect of a Disney film, whether it’s live-action or animated, I hear that complaint. Why »
- Josh Spiegel
Watch Tobe Hooper's "The Heisters"
5 April 2012 5:32 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
In late 2010, a panel of judges that included John Carpenter, Wes Craven, John Landis, George Romero, Guillermo del Toro and Eli Roth put The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) at the top of Total Film's list of the "Greatest Horror Movies Ever Made." But five years before Tobe Hooper would carve his signature on the genre, leaving a proud and permanent scar, he made a feature for $100K called Eggshells — which, for decades, was believed to have been lost. But in 2009, a print was discovered and presented at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Hooper's hometown, and it's since seen the occasional festival screening — but never a full-blown release. Until now.
Mubi's proud to be teaming up with Watchmaker Films to present a proper worldwide release later this month of what Hooper himself describes as "a real movie about 1969, kind of verite but with a little push, improvisation mixed with magic. »
The 11 darkest Disney animated movie moments
14 February 2012 3:12 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Disney animated films aren’t all sweetness and light. Here’s our list of the studio’s 11 darkest moments…
Despite the studio being synonymous with wholesome family fun, Disney’s animated classics are rife with dark and unsettling moments. The kind of moments where you can’t help but think, “Crikey, this is a bit intense for a kid’s film!”
These are the moments which prompt you to look back to your own childhood, and remember nights of disturbed sleep and those confused questions to parents like, “Simba’s dad will come back in the end won’t he mum?”
Some of these scenes are deliberately meant to be scary, some are uncharacteristically dreary, but some make the list purely due to their disturbing nature. Regardless of what makes such a scene so dark, there’s one thing that connects them: they are all among the most memorable in Disney’s impressive canon. »
Exclusive: Diane Disney Miller Talks Lady and the Tramp Blu-ray
7 February 2012 8:24 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Walt Disney's daughter Diane Disney Miller discusses Lady in the Tramp
Last week, I was invited up to the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco to celebrate the Blu-ray debut of Lady and the Tramp, which arrives in three-disc Blu-ray and two-disc Blu-ray February 7. The setting was quite fitting, since one of the special features, Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad, was shot in the museum, and offers a unique glimpse into Walt Disney's life, as told by his daughter, Diane Disney Miller. The special feature gives us perspective into a rather hectic period of Walt Disney's life, when he was in production on Lady and the Tramp and also working on plans for his now-iconic theme park Disneyland.
I had the chance to sit down with Diane Disney Miller to chat about Lady and the Tramp, the Disney Family Museum, and more. Here's what she had to say below. »
- MovieWeb
Walt Disney Family Museum offers glimpse of man behind the brand
30 January 2012 12:24 PM, PST | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
The man who gave generations of movie lovers animated classics like Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia and Pinocchio, not to mention Mickey Mouse, is often cast as a mythic moustachioed figure, presiding over a fleet of animators and churning out hit movies, TV shows and that famous theme park, but his daughter wanted to give fans of her father's work the chance to see who he was outside of the glare of success and fame and show the man she grew up calling dad.
In San Francisco to speak with Diane Disney Miller about the Blu-ray release of Lady and the Tramp and her father's legacy, we were among a handful of journalists given a tour of the Walt Disney Family Museum, filled with artifacts and tokens of Walt Disney's life before he was a brand, including family portraits, early drawings, his marriage certificate to wife Lily, and displays of his later staggering success, »
- Andrea Miller
Extended Thoughts on ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’
7 January 2012 8:15 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Directed by David Hand
Written by Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, and Webb Smith
Context is everything. Looking at anything in the appropriate context can change your view, or at least enrich it. When people in the 21st century look at a seminal American film such as Citizen Kane, they may be left cold by it, hampered by the hype surrounding the American Film Institute’s selection for the greatest film ever from this country. Hype can screw up the proper context for any piece of art, be it a movie, book, song, or TV show. If you watch something months after everyone else has heaped praise upon it, or months after people have excoriated it, you may find yourself expecting to see what they’ve seen and finding yourself at odds with the general consensus. »
- Josh Spiegel
Extended Thoughts on ‘Dumbo’
5 January 2012 7:21 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
We all assume that money can cure all our ills, from pretty much the day that we understand what money is. If we have money, we can buy anything we want, we can live in luxury, and we can make what we like, too. For the animators at Walt Disney Feature Animation, money is rarely an object that they even think about. Though they’re not always living high on the hog, they probably never need to worry too much about getting a budget increase on their latest project, as long as the Disney executives see potential merchandising moolah in the long run. We can bulge our eyes in surprise to see how much some recent Disney movies’ budgets were—Tangled had a $200 million budget, as an example—but that’s just the way things are these days.
But I wonder if sometimes, we need to learn a lesson from »
- Josh Spiegel
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