“It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians!” proclaims Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn), and she’s got a point. The infighting between aging Henry II (Peter O’Toole), his jailed queen, and jealous sons vying for the crown (Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry) is some of the ugliest — and most twisted — I’ve ever seen. Based on [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged theater
The Lion in Winter
Posted by Jürgen on August 25, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/08/25/the-lion-in-winter/
Avenue Montaigne
Cute comedy about a plucky country ingénue (Cécile De France) who arrives in Paris and finds work at a cafe that serves an area of theaters, galleries, and concert halls. Three storylines develop: an actress (Valerie Lemercier) who wants to play Simone de Beauvoir, a concert pianist who’s had enough (Albert Dupontel), and an aging [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 21, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/21/avenue-montaigne/
Slings & Arrows
After Twitch City, another outstanding TV show from Canada. Set at a provincial theater, Slings & Arrows is populated with all the stock types: the borderline-mad artistic director, the sell-out manager, the nosy American board member eager to put on Mamma Mia!, the aging diva, the budding ingénue (Rachel McAdams). Don McKellar makes an appearance [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 12, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/12/slings-arrows/
Woyzeck
To me, Herzog’s Büchner adaptation smells of musty classrooms, but Klaus Kinski saves it with an incredible performance as the humiliated, schizophrenic private who can’t take it anymore. The murder at the climax is unbearably intense; the slow-motion take of Kinski with the knife might be one of the most gut-wrenchingly emotional single shots I [...]
Posted by Jürgen on November 18, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/11/18/woyzeck/
The Magic Flute
Last night, I had the good luck to get invited to Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute at the Met. I have no business reviewing opera, so I’ll just say that it was an amazing feast for the senses and leave the rest to the pros: Alex Ross The New York Times New York Magazine Playbill [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 14, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/10/14/the-magic-flute/
Decade-Old Memories
“Clean-cut, midwest farm boy type, almost insultingly good-looking in a typically American way. Good profile, straight nose, honest eyes, wonderful smile…” That’s how the Young Man describes himself in Edward Albee’s The American Dream, in a role I played at Mainz University in 1992. The other cast members of The Day-Old Theater’s inaugural production were [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 13, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/13/decade-old-memories/
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