hard to make dancing thrilling in a movie but the bottle dance and cossack dance in the film ver is pretty wonderfully done
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
I'd say the film succeeds in that it doesn't try to replicate the spatial coherence of a stage production. It indulges in some filmic "devices" e.g. teleporting Tevye's daughters into the background out of focus when he's soliloquizing, which you could argue is an overcorrection, but it stretches its legs, between town and field and road, and the changing seasons.
Compare to West Side Story 1961 dir Wise and Robbins which I really don't care for at all and as best I can recall appears to have been shot on a playground
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Only have seen Topol in... For Your Eyes Only.
You've never seen "Flash Gordon"?
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Most of WSS was shot on studio sets, just the opening sequence was shot on location I think.
And of course Jerome Robbins choreographed it on stage and screen, and he directed and choreographed the original Fiddler.
I have not seen FG, Tom.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Compare to West Side Story 1961 dir Wise and Robbins which I really don't care for at all
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:19 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
rip silby dead to me 3rd apr 2019
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Sorry deems I’ve trashed it on here before so I should’ve been dead to you sooner
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
we were willing to turn a blind eye for expediency hitherto
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
if the only thing the movie did wrong was making "Somewhere" into a sex duet I would still hate it
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
WSS is the kind of stuffed-and-mounted film of a stage musical I was talking about
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
(Spielberg will fix all)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
hard to make dancing thrilling in a movie
Nope on that.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
I'll come clean that that was a canned remark I acquired from somewhere else, I don't really have a sense of how hard or not hard it is.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
sure it's hard, on a Kelly-Donen level
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
NYers will get to see this at Film Forum next month
http://filmforum.org/film/tevya-yiddish-cinema-6-16
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Was just viewing the "Matchmaker" bit on Youtube last night...Odd how Jewison moved on to "Jesus Christ Superstar" (another fave of mine) directly after this one
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 6 May 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Are you sure he didn’t do Rollerball in between?
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 05:32 (five years ago) link
I have a Cannonball Adderley lp of the score recorded in the mid 60s somewhere.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 07:34 (five years ago) link
Rollerball was after both
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
Watching w my daughter, first time in at least 25+ years...? Topol is so good.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 April 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Norman Jewison (still living at 92)
... still living at 93!
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Topol also still alive!
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
I wasn't sure about Topol tbh. Next year is a big one for Norman, his 10th wedding anniversary is coming up.
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
... what am I talking about, it's this year, happy anniversary, Norman!
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Topol has died at 87, with 3,500 Tevyes under his belt
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/movies/topol-dead.html
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
He endured his daughters getting married 10,500 times
― Josefa, Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile, Norman Jewison will be 97 in July.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
I think I would call Tevye the 20th century’s great tragic hero; Topol’s performance is commensurately iconic
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link