A bit corny, but well-directed and acted with beautiful music. Leonard Maltin gave it *** out of four!Īnother fine one is from 1947: Paul Henreid played Schumann and Katherine Hepburn Clara in "Song of Love", with Robert Walker as Brahms and Henry Daniell as Liszt. It's a great movie, not only as composer bios go, wonderfully acted. Yes, you're referring to "Imortal Beloved", with a fine Gary Oldman as Beethoven and Jeroén Krabbé as his friend Schindler. It is about his love for a lady & her son who seems to be his nephew.ĭon't know whether the story is true or not, but I like the movie as a movie. Taisiawshan wrote:There's one about Beethoven, don't remember the title. Maybe I can get some hints to kindle my memory. I can remember seeing a lot of old movies, about composers such as Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Schubert, and others. I could never see how Chamberlain was picked to play the title role.a complete miscast, in my opinion. The "Internet Movie Data Base" raved.thought it was great. Good actors and good acting, but I thought the whole thing was frivolous, illogical, and downright silly. I saw this, for the first time, about a year ago. About Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky and Glenda Jackson as Nina (Ken Russell flick, also). It should have been condensed to 2 to 2.5 hours. The length of the original movie (took up 2 VHS cassettes) was at least 5.5 hours. Also with John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Lawrence Olivier. An all-star cast with Richard Burton as Richard Wagner and Vanessa Redgrave as Cosima. Interesting, but I thought the movie went nowhere. About Chopin and George Sand (Hugh Grant as Chopin, Judy Davis as George Sand). Did anyone see "What Price Immortality" (1999).also about Edward Grieg? Music was good, movie was fair, from what I can remember. It kept me interested for the length of the movie. The life of Alma Mahler (Alma Mahler, Sarah Wynter, Gustav Mahler, Jonathan Pryce). The blending in of variouis Mozart works with the movie scenes was, I thought, quite well done.īride of the Wind (2001). Perhaps Hulce wasn't the one to play Mozart, but I thought Abraham was very good as Salieri. I don't think it could be done with historical accuracy and have any sort of popularity. However, it was a movie for a mast audience. (Tom Hulce/Mozart- F Murray Abraham/Salieri).I know a lot of CMG'ers would disagree, but I really liked the movie. Can you list and give impressions of movies, you have seen, about classical composers? I will list a few:Īmadeus (1984).
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