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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0032031115798 Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: KULTUR VIDEO Languages: Manufacturer: KULTUR VIDEO MPN: 1157 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: KULTUR VIDEO Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 27, 2008 Running Time: 166 minutes Studio: KULTUR VIDEO Theatrical Release Date: 1982 Editorial Review: Product Description: This biographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before. Stravinsky s three surviving children talk about their father and there are contributions from the late Madame Vera Stravinsky, his musical associate Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine, Jean Cocteau, Diaghilev's secretary, Kyra Nijinsky, Nadia Boulanger and many friends and colleagues. Included in the film are important performances: Les Noces, heard here for the first time in its original scoring, and Petroushka, specially recreated for the film by the Bolshoi in its 1911 choreography. Finally, there is priceless film of Stravinsky himself in this unique portrait. A wholly wonderful film... much of this portrait is like a miraculous image, filled with the sense of Stravinsky as man and musician, above all as Russian and believer. -Paul Griffiths, The Times All the virtues of the film seemed to stem from Stravinsky himself and no higher tribute could be paid to the technical virtuosity of Palmer's film, which achieved miracles of compression, lucidity and respect. - The Financial Times An extraordinary portrait; this superb British documentary provided an excellent, thorough overview of Stravinsky and his music. -The New York Times Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Amateurish travestyOn the strength of reviews that appear here, I bought "Stravinsky: Once at a Border" last month and watched it last week. I am a fierce fan of the great Russian composer and expected to learn a lot from the movie. But no. The 166 minutes dragged agnizingly. The movie includes interminable sections that ostensibly recreate Russian fairs such as Igor attended as a child, stagings of the famous ballets that involve tasteless editing, and painfully false scenes in which philistines ask Stravinsky to ... Read More Rating:  - A moving autobiographical portrait of StravinskyThere has never been a time when Stravinsky's music was not important to me. The very first Classical recordings that I can recall purchasing decades ago were an LP set of Stravinsky conducting his epochal first three ballets (purchased along with the seminal DGG recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic masterpiece, Gesang der Junglinge). My ears were first attracted to vertical orchestral color and the distinctive differences in tone of the various musical instruments. In the history of music ... Read More Rating: - The Documentary to End All DocumentariesThis 150 minute documentary on Stravinsky's life is, by far, the best one I have ever seen done on any composer. Produced in 1980-81, in time for Stravinsky's centennial in 1982, prolific English filmmaker Tony Palmer really, really outdid himself. There is nary a dull moment in the entire thing; apparently Palmer was asked to do this film by Mme. Vera Stravinsky and much material that appears was made available by herself and also Robert Craft. It seems very fortuitous, in retrospect, ... Read More |
