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Eternity As Musical

posted 19 years ago by edmundhardy
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Let's get this board rolling...

Angelopoulos has said in interview that some of the first films he saw were Hollywood ones - Angels With Dirty Faces - but also Vincente Minnelli's musicals - and one can see it in the crowd formations, the love of music, the dance sequences, the colours, in Angelopoulos' own films. I think Eternity is perhaps the closest to a Technicolor musical that A gets - it's even truly uplifting as the film musical must!

[–] jarmic6 19 years ago

Well, it has some musical elements, I guess... It has a fantastic scene in the bus. But it's the worst movie Theo has made.

[–] enbilal 19 years ago

It's a great movie. The only one by Theo A. I've seen so far. If it's the worst, I wonder how the rest are.

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[–] TemporaryOne-1 17 years ago

The poem Free Beseiged (the poem Alexander is translating, written by the poet whom Alexander refers to in the film) has been transformed into theatrical plays and operatic musicals and symphonic compositions for orchestra...