Warning: Spoiler alert.
Meryl Streep’s performance in Florence Foster Jenkins is shaping up to be yet another highlight of the incredible actress’s long career. The irony that one of America’s greatest living actresses would wind up playing a woman known as one of its worst singers seems staggering, which is why Jenkins’ incredible life deserves a closer look.
Jenkins was born — appropriately — Narcissa Florence Foster on July 19, 1868, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The city’s population and industry were booming after the discovery of coal in the region; Woolworth’s, Planter’s Peanuts, Bell Telephone and Luzerne National Bank...
Meryl Streep’s performance in Florence Foster Jenkins is shaping up to be yet another highlight of the incredible actress’s long career. The irony that one of America’s greatest living actresses would wind up playing a woman known as one of its worst singers seems staggering, which is why Jenkins’ incredible life deserves a closer look.
Jenkins was born — appropriately — Narcissa Florence Foster on July 19, 1868, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The city’s population and industry were booming after the discovery of coal in the region; Woolworth’s, Planter’s Peanuts, Bell Telephone and Luzerne National Bank...
- 1/23/2017
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
A selection committee headed by film director Ahmed Maanouni has selected “Aida” to represent Morocco in the best foreign language film category at the 88th Academy Awards (Oscars). “Aida” (not based on the Giuseppe Verdi opera) is directed by Driss Mrini, and stars Noufissa Bechahda as Aida Cohen, a music teacher living in Paris who is battling a malignant tumor. Convinced that her days are numbered, she then decides to return to Morocco to reconnect with her roots and regain forgotten childhood memories. Morocco has submitted a total of 10 feature films (before this year) for Academy Awards consideration in the Best Foreign Language film category since 1977. However, none of the...
- 9/21/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: Maastricht Concert takes more than £1m in one night for CinemaLive.
André Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert has broken single night and lifetime box office records for a music concert in the UK after taking more than £1m on Saturday night.
The CinemaLive-distributed event is the first music concert to take more than £1m at the UK box office on a single day, grossing £1,022,989 [source: Rentrak] on Saturday night, when it was the third-highest grossing film behind Ant-Man and Minions.
The event also screened at an additional 54 cinemas on Sunday, taking the current UK box office gross to £1,078,348, a lifetime record for a music concert.
The film surpassed the previous one day and lifetime records set by Take That Live in June and One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film.
A combined 150,000 people paid to see the film in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Denmark, where the film also broke records.
The concert...
André Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert has broken single night and lifetime box office records for a music concert in the UK after taking more than £1m on Saturday night.
The CinemaLive-distributed event is the first music concert to take more than £1m at the UK box office on a single day, grossing £1,022,989 [source: Rentrak] on Saturday night, when it was the third-highest grossing film behind Ant-Man and Minions.
The event also screened at an additional 54 cinemas on Sunday, taking the current UK box office gross to £1,078,348, a lifetime record for a music concert.
The film surpassed the previous one day and lifetime records set by Take That Live in June and One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film.
A combined 150,000 people paid to see the film in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Denmark, where the film also broke records.
The concert...
- 7/20/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Enter here for your chance to win passes to one of two select encore performances from the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series of cinema presentations, including The Merry Widow and Aida.
For your chance to receive two (2) complimentary passes to see one of the two performances listed below, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page. But, hurry because the contest ends at midnight on Sunday, July 19th! If you win, we’ll contact you with how you’ll receive the tickets nearest your location for one of the shows.
About The Events
Event: The Merry Widow
Date: Wednesday, July 22
Time: 7:00 p.m. (local time)
Special Fathom Features: The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling woman who captivates all of Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new hit staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman.
For your chance to receive two (2) complimentary passes to see one of the two performances listed below, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page. But, hurry because the contest ends at midnight on Sunday, July 19th! If you win, we’ll contact you with how you’ll receive the tickets nearest your location for one of the shows.
About The Events
Event: The Merry Widow
Date: Wednesday, July 22
Time: 7:00 p.m. (local time)
Special Fathom Features: The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling woman who captivates all of Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new hit staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman.
- 7/14/2015
- by Administrator
- CinemaNerdz
Documentary Ballet Boys dancing to Taiwan.
Doc specialist Wide House has sold Ballet Boys, the story of three upcoming dance talents, has sold to Swallow Wings in Taiwan.
In Cannes, Wide House also announced that its latest documentary Magicarena, about Aida’s Verdi by La Fura del Baus, has gone to Cineplex in Taiwan.
In addition, the newly acquired Sagrada, the mystery of creation has sold to Joint in Taiwan.
Magicarena is currently in negotiation with the Us and Japan and will be finalized before the end of the market, according to Wide.
Doc specialist Wide House has sold Ballet Boys, the story of three upcoming dance talents, has sold to Swallow Wings in Taiwan.
In Cannes, Wide House also announced that its latest documentary Magicarena, about Aida’s Verdi by La Fura del Baus, has gone to Cineplex in Taiwan.
In addition, the newly acquired Sagrada, the mystery of creation has sold to Joint in Taiwan.
Magicarena is currently in negotiation with the Us and Japan and will be finalized before the end of the market, according to Wide.
- 5/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Doc specialist has also taken on sales of Before You Know It about group of trailblazing gay seniors.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
- 5/1/2014
- ScreenDaily
Doc specialist has also taken on sales of Before You Know It about group of trailblazing gay seniors.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
- 5/1/2014
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Egypt’s burgeoning independent film scene will be the subject of a new documentary being produced by Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication.
Entitled The Cat’s House, the medium-length work revolves around the shoot of Ibrahim El-Batout’s organ-trafficking thriller The Cat over the summer. Zad’s upcoming slate also includes Ossama Fawzy’s Rosy Black, which is in development, and Atef Hatata’s The Exile.
Talking about The Cat’s House, Al-Hanafy said: “The ongoing struggle between the distributors and independent producers will be the main focus in the documentary.”
A raft of independent film companies – lead by the likes of Zad and Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic – have sprung up in the wake of the revolution in 2011. Although garnering praise on the festival circuit, recent indie productions such as Winter Of Discontent and Coming Forth By Day have had a tough time finding screens at home.
Young filmmaker...
Entitled The Cat’s House, the medium-length work revolves around the shoot of Ibrahim El-Batout’s organ-trafficking thriller The Cat over the summer. Zad’s upcoming slate also includes Ossama Fawzy’s Rosy Black, which is in development, and Atef Hatata’s The Exile.
Talking about The Cat’s House, Al-Hanafy said: “The ongoing struggle between the distributors and independent producers will be the main focus in the documentary.”
A raft of independent film companies – lead by the likes of Zad and Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic – have sprung up in the wake of the revolution in 2011. Although garnering praise on the festival circuit, recent indie productions such as Winter Of Discontent and Coming Forth By Day have had a tough time finding screens at home.
Young filmmaker...
- 12/8/2013
- ScreenDaily
The Loves of Pharaoh: Ernst Lubitsch early historical epic (photo: Emil Jannings [center] in The Loves of Pharaoh) Ernst Lubitsch’s The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) exists only in a truncated version, with some stills and title cards inserted into the lost footage. Lubitsch’s early epic was screened at the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The film tells the familiar story of the lustful, evil King Amenes (Emil Jannings), Pharaoh of Egypt, and his unrequited love for the Greek slave girl Theonis (Dagny Servaes), who loves the gallant Ramphis (Harry Liedtke), who, for his part, is being kept prisoner in a rock quarry. Pharaoh Amenes makes Theonis his Queen, but she manages to avoid getting in bed with him. Then those pesky Ethiopians want their Queen / Slave for their own and invade Egypt. Needless to say, Ramphis escapes to claim Theonis. The Loves of Pharaoh‘s tale of treachery and...
- 6/4/2013
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Verdi: The Complete Works (75-cd boxed set) Decca.
From the ever-popular "Aida" to the obscure "Alzira," all 28 of Giuseppe Verdi's operas have been repackaged in a boxed set to commemorate the great Italian composer's 200th birthday – along with his other compositions: the "Requiem," songs, choral works, even a string quartet and capriccio for bassoon and orchestra.
This exhaustive collection of 75 CDs comes from Decca, which has drawn on the catalogs of Philips, Deutsche Grammophon and Emi. The suggested retail price of $200 makes it a bargain at less than $3 per CD.
The great conductors of the 1960s, `70s and `80s are represented, from Herbert von Karajan to James Levine, from Georg Solti to Riccardo Muti. The casts are mostly exemplary, with generous contributions from the "three tenors" – Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras (seven operas each) and Luciano Pavarotti (three). The soprano lineup includes Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe and Katia Ricciarelli.
From the ever-popular "Aida" to the obscure "Alzira," all 28 of Giuseppe Verdi's operas have been repackaged in a boxed set to commemorate the great Italian composer's 200th birthday – along with his other compositions: the "Requiem," songs, choral works, even a string quartet and capriccio for bassoon and orchestra.
This exhaustive collection of 75 CDs comes from Decca, which has drawn on the catalogs of Philips, Deutsche Grammophon and Emi. The suggested retail price of $200 makes it a bargain at less than $3 per CD.
The great conductors of the 1960s, `70s and `80s are represented, from Herbert von Karajan to James Levine, from Georg Solti to Riccardo Muti. The casts are mostly exemplary, with generous contributions from the "three tenors" – Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras (seven operas each) and Luciano Pavarotti (three). The soprano lineup includes Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe and Katia Ricciarelli.
- 3/5/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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