New movie about Mahler "Mahler on the Couch"

[Sergeant Rock]

consider that there has only been 1 movie made about Mahler EVER!

Although primarily about Alma, Mahler does figure in Bruce Beresford's film Bride of the Wind.



The trailer is here:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi482083097/

Sarge

[Opus106]

The middle part of the background reminds of of the EMI Anniversary box cover. Is that a detail from some famous painting or paintings by the same person?

[Sergeant Rock]

The middle part of the background reminds of of the EMI Anniversary box cover. Is that a detail from some famous painting or paintings by the same person?

The film's poster is probably meant to evoke Gustav Klimt's famous painting:




The whole seems to be a montage from several Klimt paintings.

Sarge

[Scarpia]

Although primarily about Alma, Mahler does figure in Bruce Beresford's film Bride of the Wind.



The trailer is here:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi482083097/

Sarge

Sounded familiar.  I checked my Netscape Netflix queue, I have rented it and given it 1 star out of 5.   

[Sergeant Rock]

Sounded familiar.  I checked my Netscape queue, I have rented it and given it 1 star out of 5.   

I haven't seen it but the trailer did not inspire confidence.

Sarge

[Opus106]

The film's poster is probably meant to evoke Gustav Klimt's famous painting:

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The whole seems to be a montage from several Klimt paintings.
Sarge

That, I have seen before. Thanks, Sarge.

I checked my Netscape queue

It's 2010!

[Sergeant Rock]

Sounded familiar.  I checked my Netscape Netflix queue, I have rented it and given it 1 star out of 5.   

You were more generous than Ebert. He gave it only half a star 

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010622/REVIEWS/106220302/1023


Sarge

[Scarpia]

You were more generous than Ebert. He gave it only half a star 

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010622/REVIEWS/106220302/1023


Sarge

Alas, we can't award fractional stars in Netscape Netflix.

[Sergeant Rock]

Alas, we can't award fractional stars in Netscape Netflix.

Here is part of Ebert's review:

"Kokoschka himself returns a year later--alive!--and surprises her in her drawing room. "It's not every man who is shot in the head, bayoneted and lives to tell about it," he observes. Then he sees she is pregnant and rejoices that she decided to have his baby, instead of an abortion. "But it has been a year," Alma tells him. "Think, Oskar! A year." The penny falls. He stalks away, disgusted either at the fact that she is bearing another man's child, or that he cannot count."



Sarge

[The new erato]

The film's poster is probably meant to evoke Gustav Klimt's famous painting:




The whole seems to be a montage from several Klimt paintings.

Sarge

I have this and a couple of other Klimt reproductions in my bathroom (and I mean bath - noth the smaller room :-) ). A very appropriate place for Klimt I've always thought.

[knight66]

It may be the Kubelik DG art work that initially tied Mahler's music to Klimt's paintings. It is now a standard connection. Each around Vienna at the same time and I do think that Klimt's paintings do often compliment Mahler's music.

Mike

[greg]

Looks like typical retarded Hollywood inspired tripe. The lead doesn't even remotely look like Mahler to boot.

Yeah 
Though I'm glad just to see another Mahler movie, the previews make this one look like garbage. Romance movies are disgusting, and this looks like a romance movie more than a biographical movie.

I'd like to see a movie that shows more:
1) of him conducting rehearsals.
2) in the creative process of writing.
3) maybe trippy scenes where he is zoning out and letting his imagination run wild

I'll watch it, but I hope the movie isn't all "Oh, Alma..." "Oh, Gustav..." "Oh, Alma..." "Oh, Gustav..." with people that don't even look like them.

[Scarpia]

I'd like to see a movie that shows more:
1) of him conducting rehearsals.
2) in the creative process of writing.
3) maybe trippy scenes where he is zoning out and letting his imagination run wild

You think this would make a good movie?  A man hunched over a piece of manuscript paper, scribbling and muttering to himself for three hours, or telling a horn player that his entrance was all wrong? 

[greg]

You think this would make a good movie?  A man hunched over a piece of manuscript paper, scribbling and muttering to himself for three hours, or telling a horn player that his entrance was all wrong?

Actually, yeah. 
It would be better than "Oh, Alma..." "Oh, Gustav..." for 3 hours...

[oabmarcus]

You think this would make a good movie?  A man hunched over a piece of manuscript paper, scribbling and muttering to himself for three hours, or telling a horn player that his entrance was all wrong?

docu-drama, something alone the lines of Hazelwood's mini series on Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

[kishnevi]

Although primarily about Alma, Mahler does figure in Bruce Beresford's film Bride of the Wind.



The trailer is here:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi482083097/

Sarge

Is it just me, or doesn't the woman in that poster resemble Frida Kahlo?