Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks
A round-up of recently viewed disks from rediscovered classics to throwaway mainstream action; from horror and comedy to […]
Review: Falstaff (1966)
Director: Ronald Eyre
Cast: Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci, Brenda Boozer, William Wildermann,
Renato Bruson
Katia Ricciarelli
Leo Nucci
Brenda Boozer
William Wildermann
Plot: This first-rate 1982 production of Verdi’s Falstaff marked the great 20th century Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini's return to opera conducting after more than a decade's absence. Renato Bruson leads a brilliant cast as the lovable fat knight Sir John Falstaff, going toe to toe in a series of hijinks with Katia Ricciarelli (Alice Ford) and Brenda Boozer (Meg Page).
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The myth of Orson Welles’ failure
Forty years after Pauline Kael wrote her hatchet job Raising Kane (The New Yorker, Feb. 20-27, 1971), the myth of Orson Welles’ arrogance and failure is apparently still alive and kicking. In his August 13 column, Glenn Erickson over at DVD […]