Like most film-lovers, I have an eclectic taste. From German expressionistic to John Woo. I want a film to commit and deliver.
I am an opera singer and voice teacher and I also am an opera stage director. Much of who I am as a director can be attributed to film.
Primotenore
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The Road
Gotta read the book Auteurs...before you post. This is classic McCarthy. I can't wait!Favorite Films
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- Zip, whiz, and energetic!
- Shh!—silent cinema
- Other-worldly
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Primotenore
16Oct09
Gotta wonder if the CC will eventually come out with a director's cut of John Woo's Hard Target??
Primotenore
26Sep09
Singing the first of two performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony tonight. Reminds me that there needs to be a good film based upon the life of Ludwig van...
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite authors. To classify his writing as difficult would be an understatement; however, when I read The Road for the first time (I have re-read it twice since… read review
Make Way for Tomorrow
Leo McCarey’s Make Way For Tomorrow fulfilled everything that I had expected; from the total involvement of Beulah Bondi as the 70 year-old Lucy Cooper (She was in her 40’s at the time… read review
The Third Man
Post-WWII Vienna is the perfect setting for Carol Reed’s gorgeously filmed The Third Man. I have now watched it twice and I can’t get over the cinematography, especially during one-on-one dialogues… read review
The Searchers
The panoramic vista looking out from the frontier cabin onto the open west. Every time I watch this film, that scene wraps me up and takes me along the five-year, epic journey in search of young Debbie… read review
