Sentences with phrase «pianist igor»

No matter how talented a pianist, some jag - off cotton swab will still demand you diddle Christmas carols.

When Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt was up against Daniel Day Lewis for Gangs of New York, Michael Caine for the Quiet American and Nicolas Cage for Adaptation, Adrien Brody won for The Pianist.

September 25, 2013 • In his new tribute album, pianist Antonio Pompa - Baldi finds common ground between two odd bedfellows — composer Francis Poulenc and singer Edith Piaf.

In the final shot of Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (Deep Red, 1975), the amateur detective / jazz pianist Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) stares icily at his own reflection in a pool of still - warm blood.

Born without his right hand, Nicholas McCarthy pursued a career as a concert pianist.

The youngest leading male winner is currently Adrien Brody who won his Oscar for The Pianist (2002) just three weeks before he turned 30.

September 4, 2017 • If you've never heard For Bunita Marcus, pianist Marc - André Hamelin predicts it'll be either the most aggravating thing you've ever heard, or the best migraine medicine you've ever had.

Part - time pianist Monty Fagan (Johnny Simmons) begins a May - December romance with a femme fatale (Amy Landecker) that upends his life in the Robert Schwartzman comedy Dreamland.

Steven Soderbergh's biopic of the pianist is a bizarre anti-Pinocchio parable in which toxic love transforms a handsome young man into a deeply unhappy latex doll, writes Peter Bradshaw

On his new album, pianist Pavel Kolesnikov arranges Chopin's Mazurkas like a mixtape.

October 11, 2012 • The pianist explores the possibility that Robert Schumann was the first composer to infuse a longing for the past music in his own music.

«The Tree of Life» became the first since 2002's «The Pianist» to manage a Best Picture nomination, and only the fifth since 1983 (the others being «The Piano,» «Pulp Fiction» and «Secrets and Lies»).

October 9, 2015 • Award - winning pianist Tigran Hamasyan merges ancient sacred hymns from his homeland with improvisation, and a little mystery.

His inclination towards dimly - lit, noirish landscapes works for him as the film is primarily set in that age, likewise his skills as a jazz pianist work for him in scoring the film.

Two rich Manhattan schoolgirls become infatuated with a pianist and follow him around.

Pianist Anthony de Mare commissioned 36 composers to rework songs by Stephen Sondheim for the new album Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from The Piano.

During his embattled five - decade career, Polanski has helmed a long list of acclaimed films, including «Knife in the Water,» «Repulsion,» «Cul - de-Sac,» «Rosemary's Baby,» «Macbeth,» «Chinatown,» and «The Pianist.»

October 25, 2017 • In 1955, a little known Canadian pianist recorded the Goldberg Variations.

Beautiful moments like this mix of Mozart and a Cuban classic — with Brooklyn pianist Simone Dinnerstein and an orchestra from Havana.

French minister of Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin, Actor Harvey Keitel, Pianist Diana Krall and Martin Scorsese attend the Tribute to Director Martin Scorsese at Cinematheque Francaise on October 13, 2015 in Paris, France.

October 10, 2012 • The pianist performs Robert Schumann's music and decodes musical messages of love to his wife Clara.

June 16, 2017 • The Russian pianist, known for his fiery technique, scales back to let his instrument sing sweetly in an autumnal miniature from late in the career of Johannes Brahms.

Wildcard Films Distribution has today announced the DVD and On - Demand release of director Adam Wimpenny's directorial debut Blackwood, a reworking of the classic British Ghost Story, which stars Ed Stoppard (The Pianist), Sophia Myles (Hallam Foe), Paul Kaye (Dracula Untold), Russell Tovey (Him & Her) and Greg Wise (Effie Gray).

The pianist (Olga Kurylenko) pens a note to Stalin.

Meanwhile the anti-Christmas theme continues in a subplot that sees Jess contemplating getting an abortion during the holiday that celebrates miraculous birth — and the baby's father, neurotic concert pianist Peter (Keir Dullea), is as much suspect as support.

Pianist Marc - André Hamelin's new album features For Bunita Marcus, by Morton Feldman.

Meanwhile, women are represented by Andrea Riseborough («Mindhorn») as Stalin's seemingly naïve daughter Svetlana, and Olga Kurylenko («Momentum») who plays Maria Yudina, a discontent pianist.

Douglas» turn as pianist Liberace in Behind the Candelabra was a career best and deserved at least a nomination in the best actor category.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

He abandoned his children from his first marriage, Danny (Adam Sandler), a failed pianist, and Jean (Elizabeth Marvel).

The darkly «cartoonish» tone that Jonathan Rosenbaum criticized the film for is, in this sense, part of the point: Schindler's List shares more in common with Art Spieglemen's brilliant Maus than it does with Alain Resnais's Night and Fog or Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling discovery: The source of the nightmares may lie in a past - life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world - famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer - husband Roman... in 1948.

A jazz pianist (Jerry Lewis) makes a discovery after the death of his wife that causes him to believe his sixty - five year marriage was a lie.

The day of the party, Danny's friends arrive — a famous movie star (Sally Kellerman); a pop singer named Blue (Stephen Bishop); a jazz pianist (David Frishberg); a sophisticated continental woman named Yelena (Oja Kodar); and, bringing up the rear and ensconced in the back of the theater, Danny's Friend (Orson Welles).

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

Ethan Hawke's well - received documentary Seymour: An Introduction profiles concert pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein.

The daughter of a boat manufacturer and a concert pianist, American actress Irene Dunne began voice training lessons before the age of thirteen.

Proficient with several instruments, Williams settled down to a thriving career as a jazz pianist.

Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott, Shine focuses on Helfgott's painful retreat into a private world while still in his early 20's and on...

Blind pianist Sofia (Natalie Dormer) overhears a struggle in the apartment above hers that leads to the death of her neighbor Veronique (Emily Ratajkowski).

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the autobiography «The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939 - 1945,» Wladyslaw Szpilman... [MORE]

Masterfully mixed, you can hear the delicate interplay among Young, guitarist - pianist Lofgren, the late steel guitarist Keith, bassist Talbot and drummer Molina.

At work, Laura takes a shine to the 16 - year - old daughter of a client, over achieving and under - loved Eva (Stone), a talented pianist with a controlling mother.

In «The Alien Corn,» a young aristocrat (Dirk Bogarde) hopes to become a professional concert pianist.

He often performed in reknowed bohemian New York nightclubs during the 1940s such as Cafe Society, where he was the comedy MC and fronted such acts as long - time friend Zero Mostel, Billie Holiday, and jazz pianist Hazel Scott.

Lake plays an obnoxious pianist who has eyes for beautiful Dale Evans (the same), but she is put off by his ceaseless boasting.

Rosenthal appeared in movies beginning in 1931, and he worked onscreen right up through The Big Clock in 1948, but most of his best work was concentrated in the early / mid -»40s in the films of writer / director Preston Sturges, who used the pianist / actor in various roles in his films from The Great McGinty (1940) through The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947).

A composer, pianist, and bandleader, he left his native Ireland for a successful career in music in London in the 1920s, during which he wrote several successful operettas, and then headed for New York.

Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller told me that Gould's music is as divisive today as it was 50 years ago, when the pianist publicly clashed with conductor Leonard Bernstein over the tempo of a performance.

Throaty - voiced, kittenish leading lady Glynis Johns was the daughter of British stage actor Mervyn Johns; she was born while her father and concert - pianist mother were on a tour of South Africa.