Word: pianist
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...This is our heritage. How can we do this to ourselves?" NAMIR IBRAHIM JAMIL, Iraqi pianist who voluntarily returned priceless artifacts to the National Museum of Iraq, saying he took them to protect them from looting...
...glossy cover: “Best Actor,” “Best Screenplay.” But then I stopped at “Best Director.” You see, I don’t consider the film’s Oscar triumphs unexpected because The Pianist was a bad movie—it wasn’t. Rather, the controversial nomination and recognition of the film’s director, Roman Polanski, gave me pause. As I read across the box, I remembered the way I felt on Oscar night: it?...
...film is anchored around lead character Jimmy “Fingers” Angelelli (Keitel), a classical pianist and debt collector for the mob. In the opening scenes, he ecstatically plays a Bach toccata in his New York apartment, then meets with his raspy-voiced mobster father for his next assignment. The film traces his descent into criminality as the divisions in his character lead to the destruction of his dreams...
...PIANIST. The Pianist screens...
...sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally heroic Poles and in its sympathy for an officer of Hitler’s vicious army to the east. Winner of this year’s Academy Awards for Best...