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Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March 11 and beyond on the centennial of his birth.
A legend during and beyond his lifetime, Piazzolla died in 1992 at the age of 71. His daring, genre-blurring music is still played around the word the coronavirus pandemic not withstanding by symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles and jazz groups. It can also be heard on his many albums, including a live recording with jazz vibraphone great Gary Burton, and in the music for such films as “12 Monkeys,” “Frantic” and “Infierno Tan Temido.”
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âWhat, are you crazy, move the camera? Just leave it there!â Martin Scorsese on The King of Comedy
Upon its release, celebrity satire The King of Comedy seemed a striking new turn for Martin Scorsese. In our Summer 1983 issue â reprinted here and in our new special issue Martin Scorsese: A Life of Movies â Terrence Rafferty spoke to the director about âstarting all overâ after the likes of New York, New York and The Last Waltz.
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Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy (1983)
Martin Scorsese has stopped moving. The whirling, volatile camera of Mean Streets, Alice Doesnât Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver has been slowing down gradually over the years, steadying itself, settling into the fixed position it finally assumes in The King of Comedy: an almost classical mise en scène, cut to the stately, regular editing rhythms of the traditional American narrative film.
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100 Best Dramas of All Time
By Molly Pennington, Stacker
On 3/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST
Dramatic elements elicit strong emotions and pull you into the intimate core of human relationships. Drama as a film category spans a range of genres, including horror, thrillers, noirs, and comedy. These movies can center on heartwarming subjects, be viewed with a tissue in hand, or can take deep dives into serious matters. Dramas force audiences to grapple with issues of morality and the hard choices that govern what s right and wrong.
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The term melodrama has a bad rap as a description for films that are overwrought or sentimental. However, consider how the term melos, a Greek word for music, links with drama and becomes a word that captures the way sweeping scores and evocative musical soundtracks work in films that spark deep emotions. It s a drama if it evokes powerful emotions across subjects such as law and order in Westerns, courtroom plots, or g
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