Continue the tour through the halls of a vast Museum of cinema. The exhibits can be touched by hands, they can catch on the Internet, it is possible to enjoy. Because movies, unlike theatrical performances, remain alive always. And to what extent – you be the judge.
the Death of Ennio Morricone summed up his long and fruitful way: he wrote the music for nearly 500 films of Italian, American, French, Russian movie. Saying goodbye to the last representative of the great, without precedent in Italian, “waves”, review of his best films, paying particular attention to their sound decision. Let me remind you: the work of film composer to create not only melodies, but also very atmosphere of the painting, for all its scale from the rustles of the forest and rhythms rifle shooting to the city hubbub and barely audible from a distance like a folk song.
pier Paolo Pasolini – TRILOGY of LIFE. Filmed in the early 70s, it consists of paintings based on the famous literary sources – “the Canterbury tales” of the British Chaucer, the “Decameron” of Boccaccio Italian and Persian fairy tales “the Flower of 1001 nights”. It from the early passions of the Director neorealism is not a trace remains: luxury visual fantasies shameless ancient times, overwhelming youth of sensuality and voluptuous priests ‘ dreams overflowing with spicy sensuality characteristic of the subjects of the Revival. Here every frame is a scenic masterpiece, and the music conveys a living breathing countries and eras with their naivete and simplicity. In “Decameron” and “Canterbury tales” Morricone uses real folklore, in the first Neapolitan traditional songs, the second old English melodies. To “1001 nights” writes original music in a classic style.
the GOOD, the BAD and the ugly – spaghetti Western the founder of the genre Sergio Leone. The action takes place in the American Wild West during the Civil war. Adopted first in arms, the film is now one of the ten best westerns of the world. Stylized coyote howl ringtone Morricone has become a hallmark of the genre: dramatic chorale with some Martian sounds of voices and instruments.
the LEGEND OF the PIANIST – musical drama Giuseppe Tornatore, the story of a boy, found on an ocean liner and has lived on it all his life, never went down to the shore. He learned to play the piano and became a piano virtuoso, entertaining the passengers. Character played by Tim Roth, and the composer’s real freedom here: Morricone writes a lot of original music, arranges for the film Mozart; the soundtrack received awards “David di Donatello” and the “Golden globe”.
With great affection and sadness Morricone wrote his “Russian themes” – these are his tracks to “the Demons of St. Petersburg” by Giuliano Montaldo, “the Master and Margarita” but YugoslavRA Alexander Petrovich, “72 meters” Vladimir Khotinenko’s drama and Mauro Bolognini “goodbye, Moscow”.
At the stream-IVI platform huffed “Plague!” – Comedy series, which returned into use old efficiency current stage: in the morning newspaper, evening in verse. And we went in the XIV century, when Europe was attacked by the plague, and the notorious Cumans, and she still defended the contracts, sentences, understatements and zaovalennymi stones. All in the series of made-imprisonment on the brink: the jewel-like colors, gingerbread exteriors, wigs, costumes and hats of the type “wear – do not want.” We are just warning you that hint today will not. And furious Cord competently sings medieval ballad about the fact that you can go crazy, sidyuchi locked up.
In Europe, all well and oxetine. The guards talk about carousing plague, which, they say, sent these… the Mongols. Namakarana ladies reputable broadcast from the Windows that no plague is actually there. Baron (organic Maxim lagashkin) tired in search of someone else to execute. His overripe daughter got tired of waiting groom. And then turned up the blond boy, which, however, already has a fiancee, and she had been waiting for. The show comes hot on the heels of the latest news, overstayers actors clearly enjoying the opportunity to stretch your talents, but also smack of blows around us absurdity. Actors different degrees of talents, anecdotes of different degrees of success – as indeed always happens with hot, straight from hell’s furnace, one-liners on fresh, straight from the people’s uncultivated patches, theme. Sometimes wince from the too facile jokes (“I’m banned – get him for a bath”), a time to admire the skill of grafting to the antediluvian story of commercial advertising. The severity from the category of those that are called flat, but work. We have this situation: almost any news out of the box looks like a joke without any literary treatment. This feature of the experience of the era accurately captured by the authors and, in General, actual Ages – as it is conceived, devised, staged, painted, and played, will not deny the wit.
Although this is a joke a one-time use. This theater of miniatures online, the forgotten genre kinofilmen. He grinned and jumped off newspaper pages, turned inside out latest news, born to make Kafka come true – because that is what has created all of us and with the whole world notorious pandemic: everything checked in bending, the durability, and staggered pillars and fell the house of cards and the secret was revealed, and kings – naked. Fallen on us, a new reality has given comedians so much food for parodies that the series look at first, with a vindictive pleasure that no frame – magnifying mirror, and in it we see ourselves in all n��starkly glory. From the awareness of today’s conflicts, zoom communication, stupid bets lost, heroes debunked time and its naive victims becoming bitter and fun: as you know, humanity, laughing, says goodbye to his past, but when it’s laughing at the present and uncertain future – even the saints fans.
Removed an iPhone and permeated medieval melos (music by Sergey Shnurov) series “Plague!” one of the first products stream-IVI platform, apparently, claiming to be Russian Netflix. It was invented by a team of creative producer Alexander Lethargic and put Babolat Batulin. Far was the first and the second series – I was curious, will you hold it, the authors claimed drive. New series fears confirmed: went forced jokes, forced gags and heavy artillery in the form of a crudely depicted a transvestite. You will involuntarily remember Faina Ranevskaya with its timeless truth: even a good joke if it is repeated again and again becomes vulgarity.
July in the yard? Watch “the July rain” Marlena hutsieva, a milestone for our movie.
he – the singer of Moscow. In the film “Zastava Ilyich”, he retained forever a flavor of the “thaw”. Its essence – a flurry of hope. As if sung by Mayakovsky “spring of mankind” came again. The Director was not afraid to stop painting for half an hour, smontirovat shooting at the Polytechnic: people listening to poets. I understand why he couldn’t cut the scene, to interrupt the flow of hope and happiness to see those eyes and face. Reviewing faded copy of the film, I thought: with such a picture will not do a remake. This is not a film about the event. It is about the era, about a country that no longer exists. This is the message to us from the Soviet Atlantis. With scratches and torn edges.
“July rain” forms with the “post” dialogue. It’s all there – and plenty of those songs and images of the Renaissance, and fragments of classics, which checked the value of all that live. This is one drama in two acts, the drama of soaring illusions and leafless. In “the Outpost” hero is still vaguely felt the shortage of life vitamin: the ideal that lived in music and poetry, drowned in vulgarity. In “Rain” rational cynicism is already supplanted the romance, and she was left, like the smile of the Cheshire Cat, only the voice of the stranger who called the heroine.
Today more clearly that in history we had one solid starting point is war. There is certainly still: courage and cowardice, friendship and betrayal, death and a miracle that I survived. War in both pictures is the tuning fork, the only thing that abhors cynicism. At the end of “the July rain” on May 9 gathered veterans. Someone else is hugging fellow soldiers, but this woman is no wait, sitting quietly on pristupochke. And the last shots: young people. Silently waiting for something. Perhaps the answer to the question “How to live?”, which did not wait for the hero of “the Frontier”.
In online cinemaAh – a rare visitor: a film from Holland. Thriller for thrill – “the chase.”
the author, Lodewijk kreyns all starts with a frightening outcome, and that will have to go through the hero, the audience knows from the first frame. It right: now every cracked twig we will perceive as a danger signal. And immediately – to the beginning of history: the well-behaved family loads into the car stuff, going to the grandfather’s birthday. Husband Hans, wife Diana and two girls – the family of peaceful but nervous. They are all annoying – tarried wife, wimp husband, tarried a traffic light, trudging ahead of the white mini-van. This mini-van and become a complication of the tragic events: hero obhamil driver, and then, finding him in a roadside cafe, will clash for real.
Playing Hans artist Jeroen of Spitzenberger – the main source of suspense. At a glance he is able to Express a complex condition lost the shore of the person’s shadow, imagining the enemy behind every corner. It is a Symphony of successive emotions of hysteria at any moment capable of flies to make uncontrollable elephant. Nervousness is transmitted to your wife and daughters. The family is late for the feast, and then braking because of the kettle, blocking the road: the kettle with the required apology.
the Elephant of a fly is inflated quickly. The opponent is armed, as against a virus attack, a hazmat suit and spray for toxic substances. The terror begins, he will recall a similar situation in the old Spielberg movie “Duel”, where the hero is pursued the truck with the unseen driver, bringing both him and the audience to a nervous breakdown. There’s this truck was a phenomenon almost mystical – way of life became a place where all walks of the rock itself. “Stalker” also features a contrast of peaceful villages and something ominous that hovered in the air.
But here the Stalker is a person: tall dark man, resembling the creation of Frankenstein appearance of Boris Karloff. William de wolf plays a cross between a psycho fanatic, stubborn on the idea of retribution. But retribution is disproportionate to the offense, and all do not perceive it as a moral lesson, and as a clinical picture where all mentally ill.
the Collision of an unsuspecting family with a cruelty reminiscent of “Funny games” by Michael Haneke: scum scoff at the peaceful family. Here and there is shocking contrast of civilization, as comfortable with the ruthlessness of something hostile to human nature, but existing among us.
the Picture keeps in suspense so long and so skillfully that nearly one cannot help admiring “the beauty of the game.” But in the final offensive way breaks – all translates to the rank of instructive parables. That throws a very strong impression from the experience, Recalling that all of this real fact awesome – not more than the movie, which the authors have not figured out how finish��s.
1. “The Composer Glinka” 1952. A biopic of Gregory Alexandrov would not be remarkable, if not unique talent of the Director to grow their own movies straight from the music. The picture just oozes immortal harmonies of the founder of Russian Opera, which our musicologists stupidly think “Italian”, but few of the writers felt that way and was able to arrange Russian melos, to convey in the music of the Russian spirit. In the role of Glinka Boris Smirnov, Franz Liszt, played by Sviatoslav Richter.
2. “Tchaikovsky”. Biopic of Igor Talankin with Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the Central role, 1970. The film is the razor’s edge, making it clear to the attentive viewer, but not a word obmolvilas about the main tragedy of this person reflected in all his work. Two eternal opposing forces: talent, trying to defend their human dignity, and inert society, not knowing what it is. The film was nominated for “Oscar”, including the musical adaptation of the famous Dimitri Temkin.
3. “Spring” – the best of the musical comedies of Grigory Aleksandrov, 1947. Lyubov Orlova in two roles – scientist Nikitina and her operatic actress of the Tent; their similarity becomes the cause of vaudeville confusion, which makes academic to rethink their attitude to life, but the actress is to think about the role of art in society. Brilliant music by Isaac Dunaevsky, star cast: Faina Ranevskaya, Rostislav Plyatt, Rina Green, Nikolai Cherkasov… the Most perfect example of Soviet musical with well-developed musical dramaturgy.
4. “Heavenly swallows”, directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze, 1976. Author’s version of the story of the operetta “Mademoiselle nitouche”, but with music by Victor Lebedev. The story of a novice composer Celestina who serves in a girls ‘ school in love with the young novice, and writes music in the forbidden genre of operetta. The mass of adorable misunderstandings, recklessly played by Andrei Mironov, Ia Ninidze, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexander Shirvindt, and Sergei Zakharov.
5. “We are from jazz”. Director Karen Shakhnazarov, 1983. The history of the working man of Soviet rustehnika 20 years, who once listened to forbidden jazz and ill forever music overseas, but brilliant. Told easy, exciting, with great sense of humor, rousing music by Anatoly Kroll and luxurious team of actors: young Igor Sklyar, Alexander Pankratov-Black, Peter Shcherbakov, Evgeny Evstigneev and Larisa Dolina in the role of American jazz stars.
