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Post by billhammond on May 12, 2023 15:29:17 GMT -5
I learned via "Performance Today" on APM that Bradley Cooper has directed and starred in a movie about Leonard Bernstein that Netflix will release sometime this year, though no date has been announced. The film concentrates on the period of his 28-year marriage to Felicia Montealegre, who sadly died of cancer at age 56. Cooper reportedly did a LOT of research with the New York Phil and has long had conductor interests. Amazing prosthetics and makeup:  |
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Post by millring on May 12, 2023 20:24:56 GMT -5
I saw the thread title, and because I had just seen a short bio on facebook, I immediately assumed maybe you had seen the same thing.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 16, 2023 21:26:38 GMT -5
Maestro - streaming Netflix - Dec 20
I've seen of the reviews and articles re Leonard Bernstein. I'm sure some of it is reasonable and maybe some fun.
I known Lenny for a long time. I knew him for a long time and he said "don't ever say Mr." "Just call me Lenny" He was squatted - I was a small runt. He knew that our eyes would connect. He knew I was a music person. "Play something!" I played a "wind recorder" and "jew harp"
I saw him because his mother was right by my apartment - Lived 5C and Grandmother Bernstein lived 5A.
I saw Lenny maybe 200 times and I'm just remembering about him and I've seen his music in New York - 57th St, Carnegie (green room).
Even when I was a kid, I knew that Lenny was a little odd one.... genius, queer, enjoyed that "good homo" .....the typical and single genus of Hominidæ mankind; the human race.
I'm not going to remember about that movie.....
The good times about Lenny
The good times about lenny
The good times about l e n n y
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Post by John B on Dec 17, 2023 1:42:40 GMT -5
I learned via "Performance Today" on APM that Bradley Cooper has directed and starred in a movie about Leonard Bernstein that Netflix will release sometime this year, though no date has been announced. The film concentrates on the period of his 28-year marriage to Felicia Montealegre, who sadly died of cancer at age 56. Cooper reportedly did a LOT of research with the New York Phil and has long had conductor interests. Amazing prosthetics and makeup: December 20 is the release date. We are looking forward to it. |
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"Maestro"
Dec 22, 2023 11:53:38 GMT -5
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Post by t-bob on Dec 22, 2023 11:53:38 GMT -5
I watched Maestro......"is a superficially engaging soap opera about a famous marriage going off the rails thanks to a famous musician's promiscuous bisexuality. That the musician happens to be Leonard Bernstein, the most charismatic figure in American classical music in the second half of the twentieth century, gives the film a certain allure, enlivened by the virtuoso performances of Bradley Cooper (also the director) as the maestro and Casey Mulligan as his sparkling, long-suffering wife, Felicia. Like all Hollywood biopics of such figures, the film is more interested in the great man's personal foibles than what made him so celebrated - i.e. his musical genius. The film, shot partly in black-and-white (the heady, glamorous early years) and hyper color (the troubled later years), skates through the prodigious career with an occasional cinematic flourish, a great deal of incomprehensible, overlapping dialogue and little regard for what propelled it besides the hero's manic energy. (No one seems to mind his chain smoking amid irrepressible hugging and kissing.) The film's climax is double-barreled: an uncomfortably invasive account of Felicia's fatal struggle with cancer and a protracted segment showing the maestro outdoing himself in podium theatrics while conducting Mahler in a vast English cathedral, apparently so transporting that Felicia is able (once again) to overlook the less appealing side of their union. If the filmmaking becomes tiresomely overwrought, while evading true insight, well then so did its subject."
excerpt the top collaboration review
The bottom review - all tbob
I knew Lenny was an odd duck. I've seen him so many times and even the Carnegie. He was a musical genius but he wasn't like Bradley's figure in the movie/documentary. There was too much - CGI. It was interesting but I'll never see the rerun.
There's some great music documentaries - Horowitz, Cohen, Pavarotti, etc
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Post by t-bob on Dec 22, 2023 17:08:34 GMT -5
I have some more reflections/reviews but it still wasn't really Bernstein - the actors were fantastic. The movie (a play, 50s, NYC) and too Busby....
They'll probably get an Oscar(s)
excerpt the 2nd collaboration review
The scenes are almost Chekovian in style - chock-full of subtext and nuance. The actors do an amazing job of painting a tragic picture of a lifelong partnership filled with love, but also sadness and disappointment. The Jerome Robbins ballet stylizes the young couple’s initial rush of frenetic success, seamlessly transcending from the realism of the scene of Bernstein reviewing a ballet rehearsal into a metaphor born of the very style he was midwifing. The cinematography is gorgeous - the transitions from scene to scene are theatrical and elegant, shifting in place and time with the change of an angle. The dialogue has an energy to it that is hard to quantify - it’s like watching Shakespeare and having to get used to hearing the actors speak in verse, but after twenty minutes, your brain adjusts and it sounds natural. If you are at all interested in the mid-century journey in the United States, you need to see this movie.
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Post by John B on Dec 22, 2023 21:39:15 GMT -5
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Post by t-bob on Jan 9, 2024 22:25:01 GMT -5
I watched this movie
I lived mid-Manhattan New York - 50s and 60s
The actors are very good - the film was too dis-information.
The Big Cheese - Bradley Cooper - was a producer/director/actor for 6 year in his era slice. (I loved Bradley's old films like as HANGOVERS)
Hopefully - they'll be another great documentarian - as known Ken Burns
Maestro’ Review - Variety By Owen Gleiberman 1/2/24
(my review - a shrug - flicked my DVD is in another cup in his/her tea)
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