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...matter what the heroine's fate, decided to put on ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...
...often his lovers. Bergman's last, most lasting actress liaison was with the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. Her soft features and stern resolve inspired a string of stern masterworks, starting with 1966's Persona, in which she played a mute actress. Ullmann was no mere Trilby to Bergman's Svengali. She became his eloquent interpreter, later directing two of his screenplays. Saraband (2003), with Bergman again directing and Ullmann starring, marks nearly 40 years of an exemplary partnership that began with the five films in this fine collection...
...next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper, boldly played by Rush, Armfield's friend and colleague for a quarter of a century. At an early cast screening, "he said every character in this film does a 180-degree turn," Armfield recalls, "and what a great thing that is for all to end up in such...
When McCartney sorted through his emotions and decided that he wanted to say some of those unsaid things on a new record, he did what he always does--call George Martin. Martin has retired from producing, but he remains the artistic Svengali in McCartney's life, and in a shrewd bit of psychology, he suggested Nigel Godrich as a possible producer. Godrich is almost 30 years younger than McCartney, and his work with Radiohead (OK Computer) and Beck (Sea Change) has earned him a reputation as the most innovative producer in rock. He is also known for expressing his opinions...
...Tamio Okuda Comp As the Svengali behind J-pop girl duo Puffy, Tamio Okuda wrote and produced some of the freshest-sounding pop tunes heard anywhere on the planet in the late '90s. But Okuda, as a purveyor of old-fashioned guitar rock, has always been more comfortable just outside the mainstream. His tenth solo album, Comp, shows that he's still in fine form as he approaches 40. Baby Star is classic Okuda: cranked-up, driving, unembellished. The gentle final track, Fune ni Noru (On a Boat), helps takes the edge off an otherwise boisterous musical ride?one with...