Movie Reviews: Black Swan and Black Swan: Metamorphosis (2011)
Black Swan rewatched August 27, 2022–loved it even more this time.
“You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. In sweat. And psychosis.”
I love every one of you that gets that joke.
Tchaikovsky’s Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker by Roland John Wiley:
Tchaikovsky’s Ballets combines a detailed and thorough analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with descriptions of the first productions of these works in Imperial Russia. A background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and balletmaster, and Moscow of the 1860’s leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877. A discussion of theater reforms initiated by the Director of the Imperial Theaters prepares the reader for a study of the still-famous 1890 St. Petersburg production of Sleeping Beauty. Wiley then explains how the Nutcracker, produced just two years after Sleeping Beauty, was seen in a much less favorable light than it is now. Separate chapters are devoted to the music of each ballet and translations of published libretti, choreographer’s instructions to the composer, and the balletmaster’s plans for Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker are reproduced in appendices.
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
The generosity of the filmmakers in this documentary is astounding, explaining over and over how they did things and how independent filmmakers with a small budget can do what they did “on a 5000 dollar laptop”. Loved it. I am also enchanted by storytelling.
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