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From Thursday, May 22nd to Sunday, May 25th, Galleria Toledo presents 'Bluebeard' (I. Fear), concept, direction, dramaturgy, and text by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel with Alessandra D’Elia and ...
October 4 & October 7, 6:15pm, Walter Reade Theater Directed by Michael Powell without his co-Archer Emeric Pressburger, Bluebeard’s Castle is an adaptation of Béla Bartok’s expressionist opera (which ...
As the film publicity rather needlessly roared at the time, “Burton Is Bluebeard” and he certainly gives his all as Baron Von Sepper, the Austrian aristocrat noted for his insatiable appetite ...
In 1963 Powell directed a film adaptation of Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle for German television starring Norman Foster and Ana Raquel Satre.
Sofia Coppola knows a thing or two about teenage girldom. Like many of her other characters – in The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Somewhere and Marie Antoinette – the subject of her latest ...
In his final years Michael Powell mooted the possibility of a Bartók trilogy. He wanted to add to the growing popularity of his work on Bluebeard’s Castle, the deepest of one-act operas, an idea he ...
But we do now have Powell’s late film that came closest to the idea of the Tales. Bluebeard’s Castle is a one-act 1918 opera by Béla Bartók that had rarely been performed in Britain when Powell was ...
And the next film by Anna Biller—the director of The Love Witch, one of the best films of 2017—is… well, it’s not actually a film.It’s a book. A riff on the dark fairy tale of Bluebeard, a man whose ...
Her new novel, “Bluebeard’s Castle,” recently published by Verso, tells the story of Judith, a lonely British novelist, who falls in love with Gavin, “the perfect amalgamation of the ...
Bluebeard’s Castle begins as a classic love story that flows like a rose-tinted montage cut from an Old Hollywood film.
Originally conceived as a screenplay for an upcoming film, Bluebeard's Castle may share a cover aesthetic with gothic novels from decades and even centuries past, but its reflections on the nature ...