Has anybody mentioned ³Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould² yet....?
Also, how about Hitchcock¹s ³The Lady Vanishes², which uses as a MacGuffin a
bit of a tune that Michael Redgrave must relay to British authorities....?
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> From: John Riley <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Film-Philosophy Salon <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:27:11 +0100
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: music as an image in cinema
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> This is a fascinating (but vast) area. You could consider large parts of the
> outputs of Ken Russell and Tony Palmer as well as others. There are several
> Soviet demonstrations of Russian musical genius ("Mussorgsky", "Glinka",
> "The Composer Glinka", "Rimsky-Korsakov") which put a political gloss on the
> question. I guess the classic of music madness in movies is "Hangover
> Square" though it's not about a real composer.
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> One question might be; how is the portrayal of *musical* genius different
> from that in the other arts (e.g. "Lust for Life", "The Agony and the
> Ecstasy", "Savage Messiah", [even, perhaps "The Rebel"?!])
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> j
