Word: fantasias
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...important figures in composition and performance. Franz Liszt, devastatingly handsome, was the most famous lover in Europe as well the greatest pianist; women fought over the cigar butts he left on the piano after a concert. Leopold Stokowski, the great conductor who shook Mickey Mouse's hand in Fantasia, used to ensure that the lighting at his concerts highlighted his aquiline countenance and halo of long hair. In short, sex has always sold. What's new is that it is women who are now doing the selling...
...stick, and the young John Cage as an assistant, he moved exposure by exposure through a film whose vigor belies none of this inch-work. His use of symphony music and the theatrical quality of his compositions lend his short films the feel of Disney's famous concert feature, "Fantasia," which he worked...
These omissions are not careless. King is a storyteller who boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues, and this is his fantasia on feminist themes. Dolores (Kathy Bates) in some ways resembles the heroine of a gaslit theatrical enterprise of the 19th century. She is haunted by an ancient crime, stands falsely accused of a new one and is bedeviled by a policeman (Christopher Plummer) who could give Les Miserables' Inspector Javert lessons in sneering implacability...
...villain is Dolores' husband, a drunken wife beater (David Strathairn) who deserves the bad end she arranges for him in a tale complicated by its vagueness. "King boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues," says TIME critic Richard Schickel. "This is his fantasia on feminist themes...
...fledged opera, Dr. Ox's Experiment, based on an obscure Jules Verne novel about a stranger who arrives in a village where time moves infinitely slowly and who disrupts everyone's life by bringing them back to "normal." In The Sinking of the Titanic he has created a modern fantasia on a hymn tune that resonates serenely through the eight decades since the "unsinkable" luxury liner went down. In a commemorative masterpiece, Bryars offers a fitting benediction...