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Anyone who has seen 'Shine',Scott Hicks film of the heartbreaking yet ultimately joyful life of the
pianist
David Helfgotts; will I am sure realise that 'The SOLOIST' is very poor in comparison.It is as slow as a lullaby( I took five breaks answering emails just to wake up).
English aristocratic snob in A Room With a View, passionate Irish thief in In the Name of the Father, an impudent, violent butcher in Gangs of New York (in a performance ten times stronger than Adrian Brody's in the Pianist) and as the outrageous Cristy Brown with cerebral palsy in My Left Foot (just to name a few).
Charley Grapewin, John Scott Trotter, William Frawley, Oscar Levant (once again the manic pianist), Charles Lane, and Helen Bertram co-star.
Academy Award winners Brenda Fricker (Home Alone: Lost in New York, A Time to Kill), Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show, Red Dawn), and Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Village) amplify the atmosphere of the movie, drawing in an anxious audience.
When Hannah goes to Berlin to visit the older woman who helped her mother during the war, the movie gets much much better.The movie is a bit like The Pianist, can not really be compared.
I think you can compare the film with Der Untergang, The
pianist.
It's a departure from the other titles in the franchise in that 1) we get to see Astaire play the piano - in real life he was an accomplished
pianist
and composed several songs, one of which, I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down, had a lyric by Johnny Mercer and spent a couple of weeks in the charts - and it is the only one of the series in which he played a serviceman, albeit an ex-hoofer who enlisted in the navy after being dumped by dancing partner Ginger before the story starts.
But a chance encounter starts him thinking he might be the talented concert
pianist
he once dreamed of, in the image of his late mother.
"Lady Sings the Blues" is a song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, and jazz
pianist
Herbie Nichols.
Her
pianist
abilities were thought to be equal to or greater than those of Franz Liszt.
so off-the-charts it's been classified as "incalculable," Vitus is already such an accomplished
pianist
that he would give Mozart and Beethoven a run for their money in the musical genius sweepstakes.
When a chance encounter opens the possibility for the opportunity for Tom to become a concert
pianist
like his mother, he finds that breaking away from his past is not so easy.
One day they decide to hire a pianist, and it's Ilona who choose.
A steamy seductress tried to seduce a cop with her beauty and stunning abilities as a
pianist.
Bugs is a famed pianist, the kind of fastidious virtuoso you still find today, but worshipped in the 40s because arrogant eccentricity somehow signalled class.
Jacques Audiard, who previously gave us the very interesting Read My Lips (2001) and the cute and clever Venus Beauty Institute (1999), manages to create here a story about a character who is both a petty gangster and a
pianist.
The next day Virginia sees a report in a local newspaper which tells of the murder of an actress & one of Virginia's friends named Colette Berkowitz (Michelle Jordan), after this event & a face to face meeting with Kessler before he kills & slices the ears off a
pianist
(Bruce Wagner) who lives near her, Virginia is convinced that the character of Dr. Kessler is responsible & comes to life when she reads I, Madman.
Its script is absolutely wonderful, showing the protagonist having a dark and ugly side, yet possessing the ability to express his sensitivity, as a classical pianist, through music, as he prepares for an audition with an agent.
His deceased mother was a
pianist.
Kelly Brown appeared in the movie Oklahoma and Seven Brides for Seven Browthers as one of town-folks line-dancer, but if you were a dancer you knew who he was, and Tommy Noonan made himself into a star by playing secondary roles such as Marily Monores dim-witted husband to be in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but his best role was as the gum-chewing
Pianist
in A Star is Born with Judy Garland.
Thomas is a small-time hood, son of another small-time hood, who goes around putting rats in houses, beating up people and pushing out squatters as part of his illicit real estate business; but Thomas has another dream, buried deep inside until a chance encounter on a busy Paris street ignites his desires: he wants to be a classical
pianist.
In those classic films the hands of an executed killer become transplanted onto a
pianist
who lost his in an accident, but the hands gradually turn their new owner into an unstoppable killing machine.
I applaud Monsieur Girard for his creativity and skill in this film, and I highly suggest any other production of M. Girard (Specifically 'Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould', a film about an eccentric Canadian pianist, definitely one of the greatest genius' of our time).
briefly, it is a study in the psychological make-up of a late 20's macho guy torn between his artistic nature inherited from his concert
pianist
mother & his real estate thug of a father.
Then there's organ
pianist
Billy Preston who might have officially become the fifth Beatle had the group not split up some time after this film.
It is the relationship between the two, slightly complicated by the warm-hearted
pianist
(Cameron Mitchell)that makes up the crux of the story here.
This is a film that shows a young man in his late 20s who is caught between an identification with his father (a corrupt businessman) and one with his mother (a pianist, who has died).
Niven, as the pampered pianist, and Wyman, as a down-to-earth print model, are likable as always (and Wyman displays fantastic legs wearing white shorts in one scene where Niven literally can't take his eyes off her) but they can only do so much with the middling material.
But - as a 12 years old - he tackles very difficult piece by Franz List only to practice (much later in the movie) a very basic,the very beginners drill by Carl Cherny...Worse of all... Mother claims not to be a
pianist
but she is giving a lesson to already then well fledged
pianist.
Merle Oberson, rich San Francisco socialite, goes out for a nightcap at a jazz joint after a classical concert and flips over
pianist
Dana Andrews in Hoagy Carmichael's combo.
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