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'Nijinsky' as much about director as its subject
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THE DIARIES OF
VASLAV NIJINSKY
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Voice of Nijinsky Derek Jacobi
Romola Delia Silvan
Oscar Chris Haywood
Doctor Hans Sonneveld
Psychiatrist Oliver Streeton
Emilia Jillian Smith
Diaghilev Kevin Lucas
Illumination Films presents a film directed by Paul Cox. Written
by Cox with diaries by Vaslav Nijinsky. Running time: 95 minutes. No
MPAA rating. Opening today at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
I attended ...
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'Nijinsky' as much about director as its subject
Chicago Sun-Times
; THE DIARIES OF VASLAV NIJINSKY 1/2 Voice of Nijinsky Derek Jacobi Romola Delia Silvan Oscar Chris Haywood Doctor Hans Sonneveld Psychiatrist Oliver Streeton Emilia Jillian Smith Diaghilev Kevin Lucas Illumination Films presents a film directed by Paul Cox. Written by Cox with diaries by Vaslav
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`Nijinsky' chronicles a complex life.(Scene)
The Boston Herald
; Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. Not rated. At the Brattle Theatre. 3 stars (out of four) Films about dance usually can be divided into two distinct categories: over-the-top melodramas such as The Red Shoes and The Turning Point, or dry linear documentaries that mix archival photos and
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Dear diary
Dance Teacher
; dance wire Critically acclaimed filmmaker Paul Cox, director of the 1982 docudrama Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh, has tackled the genius of yet another legendary artist in his latest work. Cox's Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky is an intimate look at the celebrated dancer
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What does it mean, Mr. Holmes? An approach to film study
Literature/Film Quarterly
; It can be difficult to introduce film analysis to students in a beginning English course not primarily oriented around film. Students taking such a class probably have never looked at movies in a serious way. They may be compared to fans at a ballgame who sit behind a post and miss the action. Time
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Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky.(movie review)(Movie Review)
Video Store
; Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky Street 12/3 Wellspring, Drama/Documentary, B.O. $.06 million, Price NA VHS, $24.98 DVD, NR, 90 min. Vaslav Nijinsky was a Polish-born star of the Russian ballet in the early 20th century. Arguably the most celebrated male dancer of his era, his modernist and
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'A Tale of Love:' a dialogue with Trinh T. Minh-ha. (film director)(Interview)
Film Criticism
; Film and video artist Trinh T. Minh-ha has revolutionized narrative and post-narrative filmmaking with her film and videos, which displace the voyeuristic gaze of the traditional Western viewer and re-theorize the relationship between spectator, filmmaker, and performer. In her work, she has
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Zurich Film Festival, 27 September-7 October 2007
Film International
; ... that the narrative, what there is of it, drags itself along right up to its decidedly uncharged climax. The insertion of real news footage at the end of the film does not do anything other than perhaps make one feel guilty for having just participated in the ...
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The Accidental Tourist On Page and On Screen: Interrogating Normative Theories About Film Adaptation
Literature/Film Quarterly
; The issue of adaptation has long been a salient one among film critics for quite practical reasons, as Dudley Andrew has observed: The making of a film out of an earlier text is virtually as old as the machinery of cinema itself. Well over half of all commercial films have come from literary
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AFTER THE DEATH OF FILM: WRITING THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Visible Language
; Abstract This essay argues that the North American cinematic avant-garde's interest in celluloid film's materiality goes to the heart of our culture's current anxiety about the digital ability to seamlessly transcode, endlessly reproduce and recklessly disseminate images of all stripes. It traces
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The Analysis of Film.(Review)
Film Criticism
; The Analysis of Film by Raymond Bellour; edited by Constance Penley Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000 352 pp., $49.95 (cloth) alternation is but a special form of repetition --Raymond Bellour As Janet Bergstrom noted in 1979--the year in which Raymond Bellour's L'analyse du film was first published--
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