the set of the noteworthy arts documents
Kubrick’s name has permanently stuck in the history of cinema, because the director of his projects completely changed the whole film industry! From science fiction to some anti-war drama. Kubrick’s work features original and fast mounting transitions, strong panning motion and scaling, and the use of classical music as a soundtrack (sometimes he even built archetypes of his characters around this music).
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his work the characteristic thoughts, feelings, and images of expressionist artists: dissatisfaction with social life, feelings of powerlessness, and loneliness. The hero of his works is a small man driven to despair by the hostile environment of bourgeois society. The breeding ground for such artistic representations of the world was generously given to the composer by life itself.
As a director, Pasolini presented a depressing reality through picaresque neorealism. A large number of people objected to such representations in works of art intended for general consumption. The 1962 film Mamma Roma, which starred Anna Magnani and told the tale of a prostitute and her kid, was offensive to the prevailing moral standards of…
On January 15, 1941, in the chilled hall of a prisoner of war camp in German-controlled Silesia, a huge crowd of prisoners and Nazi guards gathered to listen to the musicians performing. Stalag was buried under the snow. There were 30,000 of prisoners (mostly French, but there were also Polish and Belgians). Four musicians played…
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
At over forty years old, Michelangelo Antonioni made his feature film debut with Cronaca di un amore (1950), a movie that already included elements that would later come to characterize his style: psychological analysis, the topic of the bourgeoisie’s crisis. In I vinti (1952), interest in the inner life comes back with an overwhelming intensity….
The Neumann’s documentary is the amazing look into the life of one of the greatest poets! About fifty photographs of Rilke scattered between Switzerland, France and Germany. To talk about man and his life, Stan Neumann filmed them not as images but as we look at someone we have in front of us. Of his poetic…
Author of the documentary Birth of the British Novel (2011) – BBC Four – Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain’s radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry…
An excellent BBC Arena documentary broadcast early in the 2000’s on BBC 4. Portrait of jazz’ innovator, gifted pianist and the extremely versatile composer Dave Brubeck. 1. Essentially, I’m a composer who plays the piano or I’m a pianist who is a composer. My piano playing is shaped by the material and ideas I’m trying…
Born in Berlin, Bruno Walter left Germany in 1933 to escape the Third Reich, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the United States in 1939. He worked closely with Gustav Mahler, whose music he helped to establish in the repertory, held major positions with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, New York…