Movies about music and musicians

[SonicMan46]

I suspect that SonicDave's intention was this one:

Which reminds me, we could use about 15-20 new emoticons.  

George is right; I've never quite grasped that moticon, but 'drooling' (and all of its connotations) would be my particular meaning!    Dave

[George]

George is right; I've never quite grasped that moticon, but 'drooling' (and all of its connotations) would be my particular meaning!    Dave

Yeah, the one we have is more like sticking your tongue out at someone in jest.

[Opus106]

From what I know of SonicMan, that tongue sticking out was supposed to represent drooling and panting.

Hm... I now have a lot re-interpreting to do with regard to many of his earlier posts.

Thread duty:

Heifetz in They Shall Have Music (1939). I haven't seen the movie... just this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/10elCyJj5l0

[Drasko]

That being said, I did like the previously mentioned Tous les matins du monde, crazy as it is,
with a wonderful soundtrack of music by Lully and Sainte-Colombe performed by Jordi Savall...

If you liked that one you could try Le Roi Danse, Corbieau film about Lully (and Louis XIV and Moliere).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvpvDjFvHA

DVD is somewhat difficult to find outside France, if interested in rip PM me.

btw I agree on both Taking Sides and Sweet and Lowdown

[MishaK]

If you liked that one you could try Le Roi Danse, Corbieau film about Lully (and Louis XIV and Moliere).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvpvDjFvHA

DVD is somewhat difficult to find outside France, if interested in rip PM me.

Thanks, now that you mention it, I recall my sister telling me about that movie.

[Ciel_Rouge]

Seen Ken Russell's "The Music Lovers" about Tchaikovsky recently and highly recommend it. However, I wonder how much of it was accurate biography-wise.

[listener]

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. was produced by Stanley Kramer ( Judgment at Nuremberg, On the Beach, etc.)

For mad conductor, see Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours  (1948)
"Rex Harrison is the orchestra conductor who believes his wife has been having an affair. While conducting, he plans various forms of revenge, each played out with the greatest of precision and skill. When it comes to putting his plans into action things run a little less smoothly..."
trivia from imdb.com
"The orchestral conductor Sir Alfred de Carter, is based loosely on the real life British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Beecham was the son of pharmacist Sir Joseph Beecham, the inventor of the laxative Beecham's Pills. Accordingly Harrison's character, Sir Alfred de Carter, is said to be named after Carter's Little Liver Pills, the American equivalent"

[mahler10th]

I'm of two minds about those films. I saw The Music Lovers in its original theatrical run, and loved it. Twenty-five years later I attempted to watch it again on tape but couldn't get through it. Mahler I hated on first viewing but I've come to love its grotesqueries...and of course the music is sublime  0:)

Some of my favorite films:

Passion, about Percy Grainger, covering one year of his life (1914, I think).  Not recommended for the prudish or easily offended:




Frühlingssinfonie



about Robert and Clara. It stays fairly faithful to the historical facts (unlike the Hollywood film based on their early life) and has the additional plus of Nastassja Kinski as Clara 




Notturno, a very dark film about Schubert's last days. Disturbing but strangely beautiful and haunting:



Sarge

Are the Schumann / Schubert movies subtitles in English?

[Bogey]

My favorite to date:



and it has the added bonus of the 3rd being played under Gardiner is simply fantastic.  The 3rd being performed in its entirety is the setting for the film and can be accessed without the acting.

[Szykneij]

Excellent movie for fans of American folk music.

[Sergeant Rock]

Are the Schumann / Schubert movies subtitles in English?

German language, no English subtitles unfortunately.

Sarge

[mahler10th]

Achtung!
Thank you Sarge.

[Szykneij]

I don't remember where I got this link. It might have been on this forum, but if so, it won't hurt to post it again here. Many films are listed that I never knew existed.

http://www.fanfaire.com/newrel/MoM-composers.html

[Florestan]

Love this movie! (it's an order )



Le Concert / The Concert / Concertul

Review here.

[Scarpia]

[George]

Dearly beloved....we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life... 

[Scarpia]

I can imagine Beethoven demanding of Graf a fortepiano that "goes to 11."   

[SonicMan46]

Excellent movie for fans of American folk music.

Susan & I love this film and have owned the DVD for quite a while - the location of this collection of Appalachian mountain songs is close to us in Piedmont, North Carolina and of great interest to me - for those interested in American folk/country music, I strongly recommend a viewing of this film - 

[listener]

Andrzej Wajda's  THE CONDUCTOR   featuring John Gielgud.
THE COMPETITION  with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving.   I remember reading in a press release that  Dreyfuss said he was tone-deaf

[Cato]

Hans Conried as the Evil Piano Teacher Dr. Terwilliker in the first live-action Dr. Seuss movie, written for the screen and not adapted from a book, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

A fatherless c. 10 year-old boy is forced to take piano lessons from nasty Dr. Terwilliker: in a dream he imagines Dr. T is the head of an Institute and that the man is trying to marry his (i.e. the boy's) mother.  The "Happy Fingers Institute" has a bizarre piano large enough for 500 little boys (yes, specifically boys, because Dr. Seuss has an agenda here!      ) who will be playing the piano "24 hours a day 365 days per year!!!"

The Orchestra (kept in a dungeon because they do not play the piano!)



The Protagonist


In real life, Tommy Rettig, also known as the original boy Jeff on Lassie, who recently died from drugs and alcohol (Rettig, not Lassie)!

Oh, and that agenda?  It seems that piano teachers are cross-dressing homosexuals!  Visit YouTube and watch one of the greatest paeans to transvestites ever written:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TQOzyCu8Q&feature=related

And one of the most wonderful songs for children: The Dungeon Song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVRxzvkJao&feature=related

Music by Frederick Hollander (Friedrich Holländer) and a few others according IMDB.  Great movie, (with only one dead spot: a song section called Dreamboat.)

I recently mentioned Hans Conried as the voice of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right Cartoons, and remembered his greatest role, which I wrote about above.  A few minutes ago a catalyst occurred and I thought I would bump up my response.