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Phil Spector talks about how Martin Scorsese used the «Be My Baby» song without permission on his movie "Mean Streets".
Довольно занимательный отрывок. By the way - за спиной Фила тот самый белый рояль на котором Джон записал песню «Imagine».
Ой, а как он пародирует его ливерпульский акцент!

@темы: Music, John Lennon, Video, Martin Scorsese, Cinema

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Актеры здесь исключительно выдающиеся!
А главное - в фильме режиссеру удалось уловить атмосферу & настроение России.



Christopher Plummer was 80 during the filming, just 2 years younger than Tolstoy was in the period depicted in the film.
The director Michael Hoffman really liked the fact that Christopher Plummer (I)' could play his own age.

читать дальшеComposer Sergei Yevtushenko wrote the entire score after reading the sсript and before filming had started.
Michael Hoffman rejected it on principle but after several months, several composers and other
attempts to score the film, he realized that Yevtushenko's score was perfect for the film.

Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer replaced Meryl Streep and Anthony Hopkins,
who were originally scheduled to play the roles of Sofya and Leo Tolstoy.

Helen Mirren and Anne-Marie Duff, who play mother and daughter in the film, have both portrayed
Queen Elizabeth I (Mirren in Elizabeth I and Duff in The Virgin Queen).

Marks the first joint venture of real-life spouses James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff on a feature film.

Michael Hoffman was traveling in Italy by train when he bought a copy of the novel to read on the journey.

James McAvoy was cast on the strength of his performance in The Last King of Scotland.
McAvoy agreed to do the film immediately after reading the screenplay.

There still is a real Tolstoy family, who live in Yasnaya Polyana in Russia.
This film was made with their support and they like the film.

During the meal outside, when Sofya Tolstoy stops the gramophone from playing Tolstoy's speech,
she plays an excerpt from Act IV of Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'.
The excerpt, which causes Tolstoy to remark "that's better" and cease walking away,
is where the Countess forgives the Count for his various misdemeanors during the course of the opera.

When Sofya comes to The Last Station she remarks that Lev is sleeping with the devil,
referring to Chertkov. The name Chert actually means "devil" in Russian.

One of Michael Hoffman's biggest challenges was to turn clean and orderly Germany into messy and chaotic Russia.

Countess Sofya bore Tolstoy 13 children and copied out six drafts of his novel "War and Peace" - by hand.

@темы: Helen Mirren, Photo, Cinema, James McAvoy

Мой интерес к этому делу поднялся в одночасье.

Мне нравится, что актеры решили не просто копировать людей, а показать их немного по-своему.
Актерская интуиция и воображение.

Я видела длинную и интересную документальную передачу с Филом, я знаю как он ведет себя.
То, что я увидела сейчас был портрет человека, показанный глазами Пачино.
Это был был немного другой Фил Спектор. Но это был ОН.
Меня поражает, какие детали Аль может выкопать из образа человека, и незаметно их проявлять одну за другой.
Я узнала многие из них, а к остальным просто нельзя подобрать слова. Это нужно увидеть и прочувствовать.

@темы: Music, Helen Mirren, Mickey Ryan, Al Pacino, Photo, Cinema

Вот ведь какая вещь язык.
Впервые я видела фильм на русском, и тогда впечатление от фильма у меня сложилось слабое.
Но в этот раз я наконец-то УВИДЕЛА фильм.
Потрясающий! Его настроение безоговорочно влечет к себе.
Столько красок! Цвета, наслаждения жизнью и страсти!
Вуди всё таки ГЕНИЙ!

Пенелопе - моя богиня! Какая же женщина! Какая актриса!
Нет, ну с Хавьером, который сам ХОРОШ, они просто созданы друг для друга!
Прониклась разумеется к языку, наблюдая за их разговорами.
Еще один иностранный язык, которым я страстно теперь хочу овладеть.



Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz married for real two years later.

For his brief driving scene in this movie, Javier Bardem underwent hours of driving instruction
and still didn't have a driver's license to show for his efforts when the movie wrapped.

Woody Allen wrote the parts of Cristina and Juan Antonio with Scarlett Johansson
and Javier Bardem in mind. Apparently, Bardem was his first and only choice for the male lead.

This is the fourth consecutive film where Woody Allen has filmed outside of the United States
(after Match Point, Scoop and Мечта Кассандры).
New York does feature as a filming location in the film but it is believed Allen has tired
of filming in New York, hence the existence of European locations in his recent work.

With Penélope Cruz winning an Oscar for her role as Maria Elena in this film,
it continues a mini-trend of young actresses winning Best Supporting Actress Oscars
in Woody Allen films after Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite and Dianne Wiest in Ханна и её сёстры and Пули над Бродвеем.

"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was based on a screenplay Woody Allen originally wrote years earlier,
which was set in San Francisco. Since his deal for this film specified that it must be shot
in Spain, Allen looked for a story from his files that could be rewritten for a Spanish setting,
took his old San Francisco-set sсript and rewrote it to take place in Barcelona.

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Я что-то долго собиралась посмотреть этот фильм. Но он оказался такииим смешным!

АХАХАХ, НАПАДЕНИЕ ГИГАНТСКОЙ СИСЬКИ! ОВЦА ДЭЙЗИ !!!

The Fool: Before you know it, the Renaissance will be here and we'll all be painting.

Divorce Court Judge: The defendant did commit an adulterous act with a sheep
- most distasteful in view of the fact that the sheep was under 18 years old.

The Fool: My father! You who died in childbirth!



Allen saw Dr. David Reuben promoting his book on which this film is based on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
When asked by Johnny Carson "Is sex dirty?", Reuben replied "It is if you're doing it right."
which is a line from Allen's Take the Money and Run.
Allen was offended by Dr. Reuben using his joke and by his book
so he made this film as a form of revenge against him. Dr. Reuben did not like the film.

@темы: Photo, Woody Allen, Cinema, Цитаты

@темы: Photo, Woody Allen, Cinema

This is one hell of destructive family!

Терпеть не могу таких людей как Джо.
Которые не знают что они хотят, и все такие в расстройстве, раздражительные.
Правильно сказали - у неё есть все эмоциональные нестабильные характеристики творческого человека, кроме таланта.
Мать тоже ... и еще парочка членов этой семьи.
Но мне кажется, с уходом Ив из жизни, каждый из них как-то вздохнул по-новому.
Они стали ближе друг другу, и надеюсь, поняли, что делать со своими жизнями.

Аллен пугающе гениален! Это его первый серьезный фильм, вообще без юмора.



First serious dramatic film of Woody Allen and as such Allen's first film which was not a comedy.
Woody Allen was known for comedy, and wanted to break the mold by having no humor at all in this picture.
At one point the family is gathered around the table laughing at a joke which Arthur has just told, but we never hear the joke.

The character of Eve (The Mother) was created by Woody Allen with 'Ingrid Bergman' in mind.
He offered her the role, but she regretfully declined, as she was already committed to shoot Höstsonaten in Norway with Ingmar Bergman.
The part went to Geraldine Page instead, and then both she and Bergman were nominated for those films for Academy Awards and Golden Globes.
Both lost out to Jane Fonda (who won for Coming Home)

It was Diane Keaton who suggested the film's title to Woody Allen.

The picture was inspired by the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

Final film as a costume designer for Joel Schumacher.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Woody Allen, Cinema, Diane Keaton

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