nijinsky ( film )
— dieser artikel bezieht sich auf den tänzer vaslav nijinsky. weitere bedeutungen von nijinsky und nijinski unter nijinsky (begriffsklärung) nijinsky als windgott vayou in marius petipas ballett der talisman, um 1910 vaslav nijinsky (französische …
— dieser artikel bezieht sich auf den tänzer vaslav nijinsky. weitere bedeutungen von nijinsky und nijinski unter nijinsky (begriffsklärung) nijinsky als windgott vayou in marius petipas ballett der talisman, um 1910 vaslav nijinsky (französische… …
— pour l’article homonyme, voir vaslav nijinski. nijinsky ii nijinsky lors du derby d irlande …
— pour l’article homonyme, voir vaslav nijinski. nijinsky ii nijinsky lors du derby d irlande, en 1970 …
it' s not a film about the dance, but a dancing film .
celebrating nijinsky the dancer, the film explores the mind of a genius on the outer verge of reason .
— for other uses, see nijinsky (disambiguation). vaslav nijinsky vaslav nijinsky as vayou in nikolai legat s revival of marius petipa s the talisman, st. petersburg, 1910 …
nijinsky was jeremy irons' film debut and the second to last film produced by the famed harry saltzman (after he gave up his share of the james bond rights) .
russian ballet star vaslav nijinsky has a scandalous affair with impresario sergei diaghilev and goes mad. jeremy irons' film debut .
nijinsky is a 1980 american biographical film directed by herbert ross. hugh wheeler, whose screenplay centers on the later life and career of vaslav nijinsky, used the legendary dancer' s personal diaries and his wife' s 1933 book life of nijinsky as his primary source materials .
the film portrays a delusional waiter, neal, who believes he is the famous russian dancer and choreographer nijinsky. when neal performs some of nijinsky' s adventurous and provocative... see full summary »
the 1980 film restoration and blu ray presentation are amazing. i cannot believe this is a film from the vhs era .
— nijinsky (bzw. nijinski) ist der name von: vaslav nijinsky, polnisch russischer balletttänzer und choreograf bronislava nijinska, polnisch russische choreografin und balletttänzerin, schwester von vaslav romola nijinsky (geb. de pulszky), … …
' life is the ultimate performance'... ... nijinsky biopic
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cox, paul: nijinsky his previous film was innocence, a popular film about love rediscovered in old age. his new film, a picturegramme of the legendary dancer, nijinsky, could easily be titled insanity, about love discovered in art. paul cox tells andrew l. urban how he hand - made the film, with his own blood, sweat and tears. he was mad to do it, he reckons .
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the real life person character of vaslav nijinsky appears in this movie played by actor anthony dowell. reportedly, nijinsky had taught valentino the dance the tango. originally, director ken russell offered rudolf nureyev the role of nijinsky but his wife costume designer shirley russell suggested he cast him as valentino due to the physical similarities between the pair. nureyev had previous portrayed nijinsky in the never completed nijinsky: unfinished project (1970). ken russell was later offered to direct the theatrical feature film nijinsky (1980) but likely was already committed to making altered states (1980) .
herbert ross, john lanchbery, and john lanchbery. nijinsky. usa, 1980 .
herbert ross, john lanchbery & john lanchbery. (1980) nijinsky. usa .
historical background. nijinsky' s prduction notes. study and performance notes: introduction to the overall style - - details on movement style and usage - - casting - - description of the dance. labanotation glossary. introduction to the labanotation score. photographs and sketches of nijinsky' s faune. the choreographic score of nijinsky' s apres - midi dun faune. an explanation of vaslav nijinsky' s system of dance notation. appendix a: chronology of nijinsky' s performances in the roacle of faune. appendix b: chronology of nijinsky' s notation experience. appendix c: nijinsky' s word notes. appendix d: teaching notes. appendix e: transcription - adjustments made. appendix f: bibliogfaphy - - nijinsky' s faune - - nijinsky' s notation system .
the short film hum is based on a feature film project currently in development. the producers intend to showcase the short at international film festivals throughout 2017 in order to raise the funds needed to make the feature length version .
the story of vaslav nijinsky, who is widely believed to be one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. based on romola nijinsky' s
last years of nijinski .
nijinsky tells the story of the internationally famous, early 20th century ballet dancer vaslav nijinsky who, at the height of his career, descended into schizophrenia and was eventually committed to an asylum .
film includes: love and other disasters; the nine lives of thomas katz .
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subject nijinsky, vaslaw, 1890 - 1950 afternoon of a faun (choreographic work) dance notation .
i' m a dancer. you will understand me when you see me dance
- vaslav nijinsky
nijinsky' s words shock and create passion - they make you react totally through your heart and your emotion. i believe paul has set out to interpret the love nijinsky had for mankind
she continued .
not a documentary or a traditional feature film the diaries of vaslav nijinsky is best described as a cinematic poem. as long - term cox friend and collaborator chris haywood says :
with this film cox has achieved a level of filmmaking which is unsurpassed. vincent was a step towards it. using a very subjective form of filmmaking, he has actually visualised nijinsky' s diary .
any reaction to this film must be intensely personal; it is not a mass - market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another. my own subjective feelings are all i can convey. i do not have much knowledge of nijinsky (i know him mostly through the 1980 herbert ross film
nijinsky
and countless second - hand references), or much curiosity. i do, however, have a lot of knowledge about the work of paul cox, a heroic filmmaker of great gifts, and curiosity about everything he does. i was watching not a film about nijinsky, but a film evoking cox' s need to make it .
the diaries of vaslav nijinsky
is a film with that musical kind of effect. i have tried to describe it accurately. you will either be in sympathy with it, or not. much depends on what you bring into the theater. it is possible that those who know most about nijinsky will be most baffled, because this is not a film about knowing, but about feeling .
the browning version, 1951. winner of the cannes film festival award for best screenplay .
ken russell: uncredited, as silent film director rex ingram who worked with rudolph valentino .
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show - business trade paper' variety' reported the film was the theatrical feature film
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of russian ballet dancer and 1961 kirov defector rudolf nureyev (who portrayed silent film legend rudolph valentino in this movie). nureyev basically bowed out of cinema film acting after this movie but did later star in exposed (1983) with nastassja kinski around six years later .
based on romola nijinsky’s “last years of nijinski”, this biography tells the story of vaslav nijinsky, one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, the young and brilliant but headstrong nijinsky is the premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the ballets russes. sergei diaghilev, who is famous, influential and possessive, manages the company. as nijinsky’s dancing career reaches its peak, tension between him and diaghilev heightens, as the young ballerina romola de pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable nijinsky away from diaghilev .
yes, he' d like to do another movie, but he' s not sure american entrepreneurs consider him
that marketable a commodity .
he' d still be interested in playing nijinsky on screen -
now that we' ve revived him and there are all these projects, baryshnikov with his own production company, herbert ross talking about a nijinsky film. after all, we' re getting three' dracula' pictures aren' t we? why not nijinsky too? but just to do a film to do a film, that would be no fun; it would have to be of some artistic merit .
besides making fiction films, mr. cox also wrote and directed two widely seen, meditative quasi - documentaries: “vincent” (1987), based on the life of van gogh, and “nijinsky: the diaries of vaslav nijinsky” (2001) .
well, actually i do have an idea about why this film is obscure. vaslav nijinsky may have been a world - famous ballet dancer, but the film is about his romantic relationship with his manager, sergei diaghilev, who ran the ballets russes. nijinsky was released in 1980, and whilst the relationship is portrayed as fractious, wounding and ultimately catastrophic, it does not seem to be because it is a homosexual relationship. even the secrecy…
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feature film in which imaginative visual images and stories are added to classical music. stravinsky' s own
the film suggests nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self - enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with romola de pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario sergei diaghilev' s ballets russes specifically to seduce nijinsky. after a series of misunderstandings with diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, nijinsky succumbs to romola' s charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins .
the film suggests nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self - enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with romola de pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario sergei diaghilev' s ballets russes specifically to seduce nijinsky. after a series of misunderstandings with diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, nijinsky succumbs to romola' s charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins .
the film portrays a delusional waiter, neal, who believes he is the famous russian dancer and choreographer nijinsky. when neal performs some of nijinsky' s adventurous and provocative choreography in public, he is forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital. this action mirrors nijinsky' s real life given that he spent the last thirty - five years of his life in insane asylums. neal leads fellow patients and psychiatrists into an analysis of another kind. his illusions can change their reality .
in the grip of madness, nijinsky fled to st moritz in an attempt to escape his overbearing mentor diaghilev. it was during that time that nijinsky was able to lucidly capture his feelings in his writing, thus making cahíers a rare and precious document .
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the homosexual love affair between the great ballet dancer nijinsky and his rival, impresario sergei diaghilev, is chronicled in this melodramatic drama .
i think that if anyone can give us a feeling of who nijinsky really was, it is paul cox
continued warren .
i attended the world premiere of paul cox' s
the diaries of vaslav nijinsky
in september 2001 at the toronto film festival. it was not a serene event. the film started very late, some audience members found it difficult, and there were walk - outs and even audible complaints. cox took the microphone afterward to castigate those who had left (and could therefore not hear him) and to explain passionately why he had made the film .
a very atmospheric film and story which sets the scene well, although slightly giving a biased impression at the end of diagalev' s attitude to nijinsky. splendid recreations of some of the ballets - would like to have seen more of these .
final film for around three years for the movie' s director ken russell who reportedly had to retreat to television for a few years after this film' s failure until russell got to make altered states (1980) .
the film' s story - line refers to a house production of salomé (1922) this film' s director ken russell later directed a movie called salome' s last dance (1988) around eleven years after .
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sergei diaghilev (alan bates) runs a ballet company and shares an intimate relationship with his gifted young star vaslav nijinsky (george de la pena). as nijinsky’s ambition rises and his behaviour becomes somewhat erratic, the possessive diaghilev cuts him loose to demonstrate who holds the power .
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nijinsky (1980), a biography of legendary russian ballet dancer vaslav nijinsky (george de la pena), failed to tap into the success of the turning point. pennies from heaven (1981), an ambitious adaptation of dennis potter’s acclaimed british broadcasting corporation series, was celebrated by many critics…
in his time, nijinsky was considered a performing chameleon, and cox used a number of different dancers to portray him through the characters he danced .
unfortunately, the film' s defects spoil a bravura performance by alan bates, perhaps the actor of the past decade .
executive producer kevin lucas, who also appeared as diaghilev in the film, says
nijinsky was a very complex person. at the beginning of the 21st century, he still stands as a great artist, and someone who was totally passionate about finding the
truth
.
clark, al – nineteen eighty - four australian based producer al clark is happy to see nineteen eighty - four finally out on dvd, a film he co - produced, as his own battered vhs copy of the film needs replacing. besides, he’s proud of it, although he does recall the film made some people “nauseous”, he tells andrew l. urban .
with: derek jacobi (voice of nijinsky), chris haywood (oscar) and vicki attard and david mccallister and delia silvan (lead dancers) .
few of nijinsky' s ballets have remained intact, so cox had help from alida chase in particular, in recreating some of the famous dances. one of the reconstructed ballets that most notably dealt with nijinsky' s life is the story of petrouchka - the puppet dancing at the hands of his master .
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that' s pretty much the romantic view taken by'' nijinsky: the diaries of vaslav nijinsky,'' which opens today at film forum. mr. jacobi' s recitation is illustrated with a rush of sensuous nature imagery, beautifully photographed by mr. cox and hans sonneveld and underscored with a lush soundtrack by paul grabowsky. visual leitmotifs abound, the most prominent being the recurrent image of a high - flying bird of prey .
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an obituary on thursday about the australian film director paul cox omitted a reporting credit. michelle innis contributed reporting from sydney, australia .
says cox :
there are at least 25 nijinskies in the film - sometimes male, sometimes female. as he was a man of many disguises, and so many characters came out through the photos that are left behind, i thought you can' t have just one person playing nijinsky .
nijinsky portrays the dancer through the use of visual imagery seen from his point of view, reflecting salient moments of his life through the characters he was dancing at the time - petrouchka, the faun, the blue god, the golden slave, and others. as the voice of nijinsky, sir derek jacobi reads from the diaries .
in december 1917, vaslav nijinsky with his wife romola and three year old daughter kyra, retreated to a villa in st moritz to await the end of the war. his relationship with diaghilev' s ballets russes had been severed and with war raging throughout europe, it was impossible for nijinsky to find other engagements. by the armistice in movember 1918, nijinsky, the most celebrated male dancer of the western world, had suffered a severe mental breakdown. in notebooks he recorded his intense inner turmoil .
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the film topped the british box - office for two weeks, but was not a hit in america
according to website wikipedia .
publicity for this picture declared that the film was the movie acting debut of rudolf nureyev but nureyev had previously appeared in such feature films as don quixote (1973), schwanensee (1966), nijinsky: unfinished project (1970), _ romeo and juliet _, the latter being his motion picture debut .
says paul cox :
nijinsky has really humbled me, because i agree with the sentiments he is expressing, about god, love, living, ageing and dying .
russian dancer turned actor rudolf nureyev underwent extensive dialect and dialogue coaching to portray italian silent film legendary actor rudolph valentino in this biopic about him .
i made this film in the editing room ,
cox said. out of his heart, not his head, i believe. it took him many months. although he is a director capable of making films that communicate with anyone (such as his wonderful
innocence
from 2000), this film will baffle those moviegoers who expect to have everything laid out for them like a buffet supper. if you have never heard of nijinsky, this film is not going to function like a lecture. it is sensuous, not informational. those who have seen what we once called underground films will respond, as will those familiar with experimental films going back to the silent era. the structure of the film is musical, not dramatic, and attempts a sweep through nijinsky' s psyche during a period in 1919 when he danced for the last time and then was institutionalized. his diaries commenced at just this time .
born in kiev, russia in 1888, nijinsky entered the imperial school in st petersburg in 1898, and upon graduation in 1907 became a soloist with the maryinsky theatre. moving in the aristocratic circles of st petersburg, he met sergei diaghilev. under his influence and dictation nijinsky became his protégé, and ultimately one of the most respected dancers of all time .
highly theatrical and rarely revived film about vaslav nijinsky (george de la pena) considered to be the greatest male ballet dancer of the early twentieth century and a member of the imperial ballet. he grew up in imperial russia but considered himself to be a polish peasant. he later joined the ballets russes which was started by sergei diaghilev (alan bates), an impresario who took the ballet to paris and presenting often outrageous theatrical events never before seen. nijinsky not only became the star performer but also the muse and lover of diaghilev. with ross as director and his wife norma kaye as producer the film is a feast of dance - the couple were…
this was herbert ross' second film to focus on the world of ballet, following the turning point in 1977 where he had worked with mikhail baryshnikov and other members of the american ballet theatre. baryshnikov turned down the role of vaslav nijinsky and returned to the american ballet theatre and was promoted to the role of artistic director .
music is a very important element in every cox film, as he believes music to be at the basis of all creativity. quite often, he has the music in place at the start of a film. in this case, there was a lot of existing music from composers including debussy, weber and stravinsky, which was an integral part of nijinsky' s performances. long time cox - collaborator paul grabowsky has woven these famous pieces together with his own original compositions .
yet in his legendary performances in ballets like'' le spectre de la rose,'''' schéhérazade,'''' l' après - midi d' un faune'' and'' jeux,'' nijinsky commanded a stage presence that was deemed godlike. photographs and portraits of nijinsky in costume reveal a haughty, smoldering valentinoesque charisma .
nijinsky was an ardent vegetarian, and the movie has scenes of animal slaughter that suggest both his loathing of the process and the movie' s notion of the dancer as a kind of sacrificial lamb on the altar of art. as nijinsky' s writing loses coherence and ecstasy gives way to doubt and terror, you can feel him rapidly shutting out the world .
reportedly, the film' s director ken russell walked out of a revival screening of this movie saying :
what idiot made this ?
.
actor rudolf nureyev portrayed a character, silent film legend rudolph valentino, who had a similarly spelled and phonetically same sounding first name as his own .
baryshnikov first encountered the story of nijinsky when he was studying at st petersburg’s vaganova school, in what was then leningrad. it was where nijinsky (and nureyev) trained, and his costume for le spectre de la rose, covered in faded petals, was on display in a glass case. “yet at the same time in the 1960s and 70s, the legend of nijinsky and of the ballets russes was kept quiet because it was politically tainted. diaghilev took all the best dancers and they never came back – and he opened up ideas. ”
issues of gay or straight, as we think of them today, don' t come into play. nijinsky disparages his mentor' s pederasty while castigating himself for frequenting female prostitutes .
intended for dance students, teachers, scholars and researchers, this book presents nijinsky' s ballet ,
l' apres - midi d' un faune
, as he himself recorded it in 1915. it provides the historical background, the chronology of its performances and nijinsky' s production notes and analysis of the choreographic style of the ballet. the book includes a comprehensive explanation of nijinsky' s notation system, with examples from his score. the text is supplemented by photographs of the 1912 production, and the music placed adjacent to the dance phrases .
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the ballet completed its run of six performances amid controversy, but experienced no further disruption. both stravinsky and nijinsky continued to work, but neither created pieces in this percussive and intense style again .
silent film director rex ingram and silent film star rudolph valentino, played by director ken russell and rudolf nureyev respectively in this movie, made two silent films together, which both debuted in the year of 1921, they being, the conquering power (1921) and the four horsemen of the apocalypse (1921) .
about half of the songs in the film were written for the stage revue .
by myself
and
triplets
were written for the 1937 broadway show
this is a wonderful flick, much ahead of its time. far ahead of brokeback mountain, it treats the homosexual love of diagalev and nijinsky sympathetically and simultaneously as no big deal. alan bates was one of the premier english actors of the 20th century and totally brings to life the presence of diagalev. the re - staging of the nijinsky ballets, particularly afternoon of a faun, are extraordinary, and pena' s performance as the faun as extraordinary as the choreography. it is also a superbly beautiful film just to watch. a sumptuous experience .
the selections read by mr. jacobi have been organized into a story that traces the dancer' s mental deterioration from a manic state into a pit of uncertainty and despair. we learn of nijinsky' s adoration of his mother, to whom he felt he owed everything. he is harshly critical of his mentor serge diaghilev, with whom he lived as lover for five years until nijinsky married .
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this little - seen film by herbert ross chooses to focus on the rise and fall of vaslav nijinsky, petulant and superb dancer, and his stormy relationship with his producer - lover, sergei diaghilev. this story from with the heart of ballet russes has been well - documented before and here we see the descent into madness of a great, if unhinged artist .
this film is listed among
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in golden raspberry award founder john wilson' s book the official razzie® movie guide .
final feature film of actor alan badel depending whether one counts the tele - movie shogun (1980) which got a theatrical release in some territories. see more »
film - making is never straight forward. from actors being sick to technical problems and the uk' s unpredictable weather there will always be challenges along the way .
known as
the god of the dance
vaslav nijinsky is probably the greatest male dancer of all time. bringing the diaries of vaslav nijinsky to the screen has been a consuming passion and labour of love for most of writer and director paul cox' s career, having first been inspired with the idea over 30 years ago, when he heard paul schofield read parts of the diary on the radio .
listening to derek jacobi read from the writings of vaslav nijinsky in paul cox' s impressionistic film based on the diaries of that legendary dancer and choreographer, it is impossible not to contemplate with a shudder the shadowy line between art, ecstasy and psychosis. over and over, nijinsky, whose flaming peak lasted barely a decade, compares himself to god in language that most psychiatrists would call dangerously grandiose.'' i' m not an ordinary man, i' m a dancer,'' he exclaims.'' you will understand me when you see me dance.''
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set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of vaslav nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier... see more »
nijinsky spent the remaining decades institutionalized, dying in 1950. brilliance succumbing to madness is no laughing matter — but neither is its verbatim testimony necessarily a source of fascination, at least in this dramatically shapeless form .
haywood compares the shooting of the film to an artist' s palette
paul uses a lot of natural light, and watching him shoot the film was akin to observing an artist mixing his colours. what he has done in the editing process is put those colours onto the canvas. it is as if an impressionist has painted it .
among his foremost supporters was roger ebert. reviewing mr. cox’s 2000 film, “innocence, ” about teenage lovers who reunite after half a century, mr. ebert wrote in the chicago sun - times, “paul cox is a hero of the cinema, a man who lives in seclusion in melbourne and turns out one extraordinary film after another. ”
mr. cox’s marriage to juliet bacskai ended in divorce, an experience that partly inspired his 1984 fiction film, “my first wife, ” about the disintegration of a marriage .
more acutely disappointing is the dancing, which likewise is primarily limited to brief flashes, revealing little of such legendary works as “spectre of the rose” or “jeux. ” two exceptions — a sensuous, newly choreographed nude duet and a condensed but still stunning al fresco performance of nijinsky’s own notorious “l’apres - midi d’un faune” — only make you wish the rest of the film would shaddap and dance .
set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of vaslav nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier... see full summary »
the los angeles philharmonic orchestra and the london festival ballet were featured in the dance sequences. david hersey of the national film theatre in london designed the theatrical lighting in these scenes .
hum is produced by parsley productions, an established tv and film production company based in brighton uk. from creating award winning short films for the london 48 hour film project to working on formula one grand prix they have the experience to deliver this film to the highest standards. scott imren, hum' s producer, is a very experienced director and producer who’s credit appears on bbc, itv, channel 4, aljazeera, rt and has worked extensively for reuters, ap and abc to name but a few. he currently makes the keiser report .
this little - seen film by herbert ross chooses to focus on the rise and fall of vaslav nijinsky, petulant and superb dancer, and his stormy relationship with his producer - lover, sergei diaghilev. this story from with the heart of ballet russes has been well - documented before and here we see the descent into madness of a great, if unhinged artist. george de la pena plays the title role, and his dancing is a dream. alan bates is excellent as diaghilev, all repressed passion and deep thoughts. the film tries its best to portray this unorthodox relationship with the ballet at its core, but doesn' t quite get there - a sign of the times, perhaps? a strength of' nijinsky' is the dance sequences which are replicated as they would have originally been performed, right up to the scandalous performance of the fawn piece. the scenes where the unhappy dancer is confined to an asylum have less power but are as valid as any other sequence in the film .
all of the rewards above (the dinner, preview screening, wrap party etc), except for associate / executive producer credit, plus. . your company logo / name on the credits and posters as ‘official sponsor’ or' co - producer'. opportunities for suitable product placement within the film (to be discussed). visit us on set and watch early edits of the film. plus 5 x tickets to the uk premiere. signed physical copies of the script, story board, director' s notes, production design sketches and film poster .
what i got then, is likely to be different than what a nijinsky person would understand. i sensed at once in jacobi' s reading and cox' s images the fact of nijinsky' s madness, his identification with god, the oneness between his art and his ego. i sensed his feeling that great currents in the world mirrored and even flowed from his own spirit. i saw how, for him, madness (or whatever it should be called) was the wellspring of creativity. art can lead (but rarely does) to such ecstasy that it resembles derangement. i think that cox saw nijinsky not as a madman but as a man too inspired to be sane .
this true story is heartbreaking, yet it holds your attention from the first frames. some have given patronizing reviews to the young man who played nijinsky, but i think that was sour grapes because nureyev backed out. i think this guy was probably better than nureyev would have been. the scenes of him in the straitjacket could wring tears from a stone. propmpted me to buy the book
nijinsky: a life of genius and madness
by richard buckle .
i one time had this as my third favorite movie after lawrence of arabia and chinatown. i was into reading about ballet of that time period and got the film book on this movie .
the film was made and released about two years after its source book
valentino, an intimate exposé of the sheik' by chaw mank and brad steiger had been first published in 1966 .
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all of the above rewards plus... full digital package: script, production stills, film poster, production design sketches, storyboard, director' s notes, soundtrack, wallpaper and ringtone
croghan, emma - kate: strange planet emma - kate croghan' s new film, strange planet, is again about love and life - but different, she tells andrew l. urban .
this praise comes from a man whom the critic clive barnes once described as “the most perfect dancer i have ever seen”. but the stories of baryshnikov and nijinsky are very different. “we both came from the provinces, trained in the school, joined the mariinsky, left and never came back, ” baryshnikov laughs as he finishes his concise summary. “but that is the only thing that unites the great nijinsky and me. for the rest we went in different directions with different intentions. ”
while broccoli continued alone on the bond series, gradually bringing in members of his family to assist him, saltzman only produced two more films, nijinsky [ 1980 ] and dom za vesanje [ 1989 ] before his death in paris in september 1994 .
reviewing “vincent, ” which features mr. hurt reading van gogh’s letters, andrew sarris of the village voice called it “the most profound exploration of an artist’s soul ever to be put on film. ”
biopic of ballet dancer nijinsky. made in 1980, this is a lavish beautifully made movie, depicting his dazzling career & ultimately his decent into madness. george de la pena plays nijinsky perfectly, he is so passionate & convincing, i cant believe it was his first & only starring role! alan bates is excellent as as always, he splays nijinskys domineering mentor & jeremy irons, in his movie debut, has a minor role as a cheographer. an underrated classic, to be appreciated at last !
which brings us to the other great innovator of that long - ago premiere, vaslav nijinsky. this strange young man, with his oddly shaped body and strange naive air (“one became aware of strange absences in his personality, ” said stravinsky) created something as epoch - making in dance as stravinsky’s score was in music. whereas classical dance aspired upwards, in defiance of gravity, nijinsky’s dancers seemed pulled down to the earth. their strange, jerky movements and awkward poses defied every canon of gracefulness .
very good copy in the original stiff - card wrappers; edges slightly dust - dulled and nicked. remains particularly and surprisingly well - preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp - cornered. ; 72 pages; description: 72 p. , [ 30 ] leaves of plates: ill. (some col .); 31 cm. subjects: nijinsky - - ballet - - motion pictures - - film. notes: impressively photo illustrated throughout .
for his first school performance baryshnikov danced a scene from petrushka, about a puppet destroyed by love, a part created by fokine for nijinsky. les sylphides and giselle, ballets loved by nijinsky, have been among baryshnikov’s favourites, too, and he has performed as the soaring spirit of the rose in spectre. “when you perform something created by nijinsky, you say, ‘this guy could dance that’s for sure. ’ the physical amplitude is very demanding and the heartbeat really goes up. he obviously had an extraordinarily gifted body that was physically and beautifully trained. then there is the astonishing range of his roles and the discovery of him as a choreographer. l’après - midi d’un faune alone is evidence of genius, evidence of a man of prodigious talent and vision. ”
set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of vaslav nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the ballets russes. the company is managed by the famous sergei diaghilev, himself a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. the increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina romola de pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable nijinsky away from diaghilev ,
but then events took an unpredictable turn. suffering from a morbid fear of the sea, diaghilev decided against taking a long voyage to south america with nijinsky, who was his lover and protege, and the company. during the journey, nijinsky became engaged to romola de pulszky, a rich hungarian aristocrat who had pursued him with the aim of finding fame. they did not share a common language, but, lonely and bored, he felt she understood him. their subsequent marriage led to his traumatic split from diaghilev .
his comments came down to: art defends the final battlements against ignorance and violence. when he read the diaries, he said ,
it was the first time i had read something somebody had written not out of his head but out of his heart .
and to those who had stayed, in an oblique reference to mainstream commercial cinema :
at least when you walk out of the door you have not become a more disgusting human being .
the screening was held a few days after 9 / 11, there was borderline hysteria in the air, and the film' s own examination of insanity was no doubt more disturbing than it might have been. nor is it an easy film. i recall a conversation at the sundance film festival with ken turan of the los angeles times. he asked me about another difficult film .
some real classic 80' s cheese on here ,
danger zone
and the number one hit
take my breath away
by berlin are the big hitters, kenny loggins and cheaptrick do some good songs, the extra tracks are good aswell although not sure how they are connected to the film a couple of them. recommend this soundtrack to anyone who' s a fan of the 80' s and this classic film
romantic lead co - stars rudolf nureyev and michelle phillips got along so poorly during the making of this film that they were reported to have engaged in an on - set slapping match during shooting of the love scenes .
hum is written and directed by stefano nurra, a director whose previous drama work, border queen, has attracted huge interest within the industry and is currently in competition in the prestigious series fest in denver having already won best vfx at the independent tv fest in vermont. stefano’s script for hum was a semi - finalist in la' s screencraft short film competition and was selected for the glasgow film festival one to one pitch sessions .
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set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of vaslav nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the ballets russes. the company is managed by the famous sergei diaghilev, himself a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. the increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina romola de pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable nijinsky away from diaghilev, written by eric wees
all of the rewards above (the dinner, preview screening, wrap party etc), except for associate producer credit, plus... your name on the credits and listed on imdb as executive producer. visit us on set and watch early edits of the film. plus 2 x tickets to the uk premiere. signed physical copies of the script, story board, director' s notes, production design sketches and film poster .
motion picture | feature film (over 60 minutes). inc: malcolm mcnab, trumpet; dennis budimir, tommy tedesco, guitar; emil richards, percussion. (soundtrack personnel). motion picture (form) .
directed by paul cox; based on'' cahiers'' by vaslav nijinksy; directors of photography, mr. cox and hans sonneveld; music by paul grabowsky; choreography by alida chase, with dances performed by leigh warren and dancers; produced by mr. cox and aanya whitehead; released by wellspring. at the film forum, 209 west houston street, south village. running time: 95 minutes. this film is not rated .
the film opened in the states the night after its british premiere and this time managed to draw in only 11. 1 million admissions, a new all - time low for the series. the film was to make back $ 97. 6 million on its budget of just $ 7 million, so it was hardly a disaster. but something seemed to be very wrong in the bond camp and audiences were starting to vote with their feet .
on 11 november 1974, a month before the film' s premiere, the london evening standard had reported that saltzman was preparing to sell his half share in danjaq, eon' s parent company, to columbia pictures .
these are all great questions and they are all better addressed (albeit heterosexualized) in movies like the red shoes (1949) and french cancan (1955). it' s funny that those movies presented nijinsky / diaghilev symbolically and were way more successful at doing justice to…
but not all of the film' s pieces fit comfortably. a fundamental flaw is the casting of mr. jacobi. as studiously as this british actor tries to express the dancer' s feverishly obsessive state of mind, the sound of his voice it too starchy, fuddy - duddy and mature to convey the physical electricity that nijinsky' s exclamatory, hyperbolic prose implies. instead of ungovernable passion, the most he can conjure is a lofty excitability expressed with an elocutionary precision that seems inappropriately fastidious .
alongside him, as prof. james mcaven, will be james bryce, a scottish actor and theatre performer, whose previous role as lou in stefano' s border queen has been acclaimed at many festivals and whose latest theatre work nijinsky' s last jump has received incredible reviews .
the collection consists primarily of kern' s show music, some holograph sketches; most are manuscript full and vocal scores of kern' s orchestrators and arrangers, especially frank saddler and robert russell bennett. film and ...
hum' s script has been getting incredibly positive reviews from within the industry and everything is lined up for it to be a successful short film. we just need you to come on board with us and make it possible.
nijinsky is a 1980 american biographical film directed by herbert ross . hugh wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of vaslav nijinsky ; it was based largely on the premier danseur 's personal diaries ( a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife , romola de pulszky ) , and her 1934 biography of nijinsky , largely ghostwritten by lincoln kirstein , who later co-founded the new york city ballet . 
nijinsky is a 1980 american biographical film directed by herbert ross. hugh wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of vaslav nijinsky; it was based largely on the premier danseur's personal diaries (a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife, romola de pulszky), and her 1934 biography of nijinsky, largely ghostwritten by lincoln kirstein, who later co-founded the new york city ballet.
nijinsky is a 1980 american biographical film directed by herbert ross. hugh wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of vaslav nijinsky; it was based largely on the premier danseur's personal diaries (a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife, romola de pulszky), and her 1934 biography of nijinsky, largely ghostwritten by lincoln kirstein, who later co-founded the new york city ballet.