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sunil
post May 21 2012, 09:52 AM
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Anyone recommend some Movies or Drama with Classical music as main theme. We did watched few of Japanese / Korean and movies like The Pianist & The Soloist, but would love few more.

There was one australian documentary (or movie) mentioned in forum, but couldn't find it anymore.

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post May 21 2012, 10:20 AM
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Amadeus
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The Red Violin
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post May 21 2012, 11:57 AM
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The Pianist!

My daughter's viola teacher wrote some of the music and had a part in it playing an accordian in Ghetto. I practically screamed out in the cinema when I recognised him (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Shine
The wonderful Geoffrey Rush (seen in The Kings Speech, Pirates of the Caribbean)
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post May 21 2012, 12:36 PM
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Tous les Matins du Monde, set in the late 17th century about the viol players Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais. Beautifully filmed and stunning music. Apparently the sound track went to the top of the pops in France (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 21 2012, 12:55 PM
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I'm useless at remembering movies but I fully endorse Amadeus and Shine (the Australian piano player film).

Les Choristes (or The Chorus I think it's called in English) is also a lovely film, slightly twee, but loved by all teenagers I know, and all about a boarding school for boys with problems where the headmaster (i think) sets up a choir. Some beautiful music.
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post May 21 2012, 01:51 PM
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La Tourneuse des pages (The Page Turner) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post May 21 2012, 06:48 PM
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Thanks, I'll try out the recommendations. Any more?
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post May 21 2012, 07:32 PM
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Hilary and Jackie.

There's also a superb French film about a violin maker - can't remember what it is called - but it features quite a lot of Ravel.

The Australian documentary is Mrs Carey's Concert.
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post May 21 2012, 07:35 PM
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Farinelli, a beautifully staged and photographed film about the last true castrato. It is by no means an easy film to watch, but the music, the costumes and the settings are glorious, and Handel (Jeroen Krabbe) makes an appearance.
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post May 21 2012, 07:58 PM
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QUOTE(pitcher54 @ May 21 2012, 08:35 PM) *

Farinelli, a beautifully staged and photographed film about the last true castrato. It is by no means an easy film to watch, but the music, the costumes and the settings are glorious, and Handel (Jeroen Krabbe) makes an appearance.


Brilliant film, how could I forget to mention it! - however - sunil, if i remember rightly your daughter is not yet a teenager? This is a bit more "adult" than the other ones I suggested.
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post May 21 2012, 08:08 PM
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Claudia's Mum - That's the one I lost track off! Thanks

Yes Corenfa, she just turned 11. I'll watch first, will pass to her a ripped version after cutting out the inappropriate content (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif).

QUOTE(corenfa @ May 21 2012, 08:58 PM) *

Brilliant film, how could I forget to mention it! - however - sunil, if i remember rightly your daughter is not yet a teenager? This is a bit more "adult" than the other ones I suggested.
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post May 21 2012, 08:15 PM
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There's that one with Meryl Streep, about a NY violin teacher, working in a primary school - based on a true story. Someone will remember the title, I'm sure.

Sunil - please don't let your daughter watch La Tourneuse des Pages ! Also, (imo) Hilary and Jackie is a truly terrible movie, and certainly not suitable for an 11 year old.
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post May 21 2012, 08:19 PM
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QUOTE(sunil @ May 21 2012, 09:08 PM) *

Claudia's Mum - That's the one I lost track off! Thanks

Yes Corenfa, she just turned 11. I'll watch first, will pass to her a ripped version after cutting out the inappropriate content (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif).

QUOTE(corenfa @ May 21 2012, 08:58 PM) *

Brilliant film, how could I forget to mention it! - however - sunil, if i remember rightly your daughter is not yet a teenager? This is a bit more "adult" than the other ones I suggested.



Hmm. I don't know if it would be possible to take out all of the non-child-friendly bits without the story entirely falling apart (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) but at least you will enjoy it, it's a brilliant film.

Edit: on a whim, I typed "films about classical music" into Google, and it has helpfully returned this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Film...c_and_musicians

Have fun!
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post May 21 2012, 10:34 PM
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Andrew Parrott, the conductor, who was a friend of mine at university, told me he had been hired as an extra to play (or mime) the viola in the orchestra whuile Richard CHamberlain as Tchikowsky is playing his piano concerto. So when I saw the film I looked out for him especially (I thought I saw a couple of other friends of mine in the orchestra too). It was obvious that some of the takes were done on a different day, as Andrew the viola appears and disappears frequently.

There's always Fantasia and Fantasia 2000!
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post May 22 2012, 08:20 AM
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Le Concert (also known as The Concert (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)) Not that I've seen it, it's on my waiting to be watched shelf - and if I remember rightly it is a 15 rating (in the UK - if you look at the international ratings it varies very widely!)

It's essentially a 'getting the band back together' story - but an orchestra, rather than the Blues Brothers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (but framing it as a 'getting the band back together' story made my husband inclined to see it!!)

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In Moscow, the former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra Andrey Simonovich Filipov is presently the janitor of the theater. Andrey felt in disgrace with the Communist Party thirty years ago for protecting the Jewish musicians and was no longer allowed to conduct an orchestra. One night, Andrey reads a just-received fax while cleaning the office of the Bolshoi's director Leonid Vinichenko and he hides the document. He learns that the Ch?telet Theater in Paris has just invited the Bolshoi Orchestra to perform a concert in Paris within two weeks. Andrey shows the fax to his friend and musician Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grosman that drives an ambulance and he decides to reunite fifty-five former musicians of Bolshoi to travel to Paris and perform The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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