Word: raoule
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...clef of legendary director and “The Aviator” subject Howard Hughes’ final, hermetic years. In the play, Shepard names his version of the legendary recluse Henry Hackamore and provides him a modicum of companionship in the person of his obsequious manservant Raoul...
...seat and thought, 'That's a great movie moment.' Suddenly I knew how to make this film." Sixteen years later, that vision is finally reaching completion on the set at London's Pinewood Studios, where the ingenue, Christine, and her beloved Raoul are pledging their noisy passion on a make-believe rooftop of the Paris Opera. Fake snow swirls, and an orchestra assaults the eardrums. Amid the chaos, Schumacher appears relaxed, even louche, as he watches the action through his monitor. He's having a good time. And he's just one of many directors out to revive the movie...
...show away from its stars. Rossum is a virginal, thin-voiced Christine, and Butler, despite a silky falsetto, hasn't got the range or kick for the big sing. There's a climactic moment on the opera house's snowy roof after the Phantom has eavesdropped on Christine and Raoul. He rages, the orchestra whips up a storm, and Schumacher's camera seems to leap off the roof, plunging headlong toward the street below. But there's no bungee jump in Butler's singing - as the camera dives, his voice musters nothing more than a gentle swoop. Despite Butler...
...idiosyncratic personalities and features, cropping the image closely so that the figure and its costume fill the frame, sometimes leaving a small high window for a distorted view of fantasy skyscrapers right out of the 1927 German movie Metropolis. In 1939, she and her second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date. But she lived to see the rediscovery of her between-the-wars work in the '70s, and its acclaim by a new generation, before dying...
...second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date. But she lived to see the rediscovery of her between-the-wars work in the '70s and its acclaim by a new generation, before dying in Mexico in 1980. It's said her last wish was to have her ashes scattered in the crater of the volcano Popocat?petl?a fitting gesture to end a flamboyant life...