“For an intellectual product of any value to exert an immediate influence which shall also be deep and lasting, it must rest on an inner harmony, yes, an affinity, between the personal destiny of its author and that of his contemporaries in general.”—Thomas Mann, Death in Venice Barry Lyndon. I can’t believe there was a time when I didn’t know that name. Barry Lyndon means an artwork both grand and glum. Sadness inconsolable. A cello bends out a lurid sound, staining the air before a piano droopingly follows in the third movement of Vivaldi's “Cello Concerto in E Minor.” This piece, which dominates the second half of the film, steers the hallowed half of my head to bask in the film’s high melancholic temperature. Why should I so often remember it? What did I have to do with this film? I only received it with...
- 10/15/2017
- MUBI
David Gordon Green wrote the screenplay with Brian Best and directs the comedy "Your Highness" for Universal Pictures. The film stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Toby Jones and Damian Lewis, finding theaters on April 8th next year. Scott Stuber produced the film while Danny McBride, Andrew Z. Davis, Jonathan Mone and Mark Huffam served as executive producers. Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general. Danny McBride and James Franco...
- 12/23/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
David Gordon Green wrote the screenplay with Brian Best and directs the comedy "Your Highness" for Universal Pictures. The film stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Toby Jones and Damian Lewis, finding theaters on April 8th next year. Scott Stuber produced the film while Danny McBride, Andrew Z. Davis, Jonathan Mone and Mark Huffam served as executive producers. Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general. Danny McBride and James Franco...
- 12/23/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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