Word: orpheus
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...feel needed. When Marcel Camus, a middle-aged Frenchman whose first movie had flopped, laid his last sou and two years of his life on the line for a far-out film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the lady smiled on every scene he shot-Black Orpheus is a cinemusical masterpiece. But when he lazily decided to remake the same movie in the slums and ruins of Cambodia, the lady gave him a sharp slap in the face-Dragon Sky is just an interesting failure...
...Orpheus had apparently looked backward. Kupka's reputation became that of a faceless pioneer, and he seemed not to care. Shortly before his death seven years ago, Kupka received a visit from the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr Jr., who bought a batch of gouaches. "You have to thank her," said Kupka, pointing to his wife. "Without her, all of this would have been burned." Barr turned to Madame Kupka and kissed...
...Tarantos, described in its publicity as "a Spanish West Side Story" spills its Romeo and Juliet legend onto the screen with a moving, ferocious beauty more in the spirit of the memorable Black Orpheus. As drama, it is only an idyl warmed over. As dance and folk poetry, it has a forceful, shimmering integrity...
...things turned out unhappily. The modern dancers who interpreted the New York premiere of Hovhaness' Meditations of Orpheus danced nimbly and well, but the choreography failed to suggest much beyond a battle over a nightgown. The gown was worn by Eurydice (Dancer Cora Cahan) over flesh-colored tights and, as New York Daily News Critic Douglas Watt observed, it seemed Orpheus wanted it. (P.S.: He got it.) Excerpts from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G were deformed by the Philharmonic's raucous and jarring performance...
...esthetically punishing. Because sound-track music must be written to fit snatches of action that are timed to the second, it rarely makes sound musical sense-and heard apart from the film, it seldom makes sense at all. Except for a few haunting cases such as Forbidden Games, Black Orpheus, Limelight, movie scores are usually forgotten together with their movies, despite the recent proliferation of sound-track...