[From a press release, excising 230 adjectives]
The San Francisco Film Society and San Francisco Opera present films
featuring the music of Guiseppe Verdi, at the Castro Theatre from May
25-31 and at Landmark*s Park Theatre in Menlo Park from June 1-7.
The series, compiled by Doug Jones, presents 14 features,
documentaries, comedies, and shorts.
When Verdi died in Milan in January 1901, cinema was still in its
infancy. Leopoldo Fregoli, the first Italian filmmaker, made the
first Verdi film in 1898.
Lotfi Mansouri, San Francisco Opera general manager, said of the
series: "Throughout my career, my two great loves have been opera
and film. Cinema has been very kind to opera, and the movie industry
has always featured opera, from the era of the silent film to the
present day. The ongoing love affair of opera and film has a lineage
from Jeannette McDonald to Ezio Pinza to THE GODFATHER. Operatic
themes are constantly used as background to film, perhaps because
the heightened drama and emotions of opera accompany and delineate
so well the numerous and varied moments captured by film."
The schedule:
CASTRO THEATRE
Friday, May 25
7:00 pm LA TRAVIATA
Franco Zeffirelli. Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo.
9:45 pm THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
(With "La Traviata" excerpts.) Stephan Elliott. Terence Stamp, Hugo
Weaving, Guy Pearce.
Saturday, May 26
2:30 pm THE PROMPTER
Hilde Heier. Norway, 1999.
4:45 pm TOSCA*S KISS
Daniel Schmidt.
7:00 pm OTELLO
Franco Zeffirelli. Domingo.
9:45 pm THE PROMPTER
Sunday, May 27
2:30 pm A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Sam Wood. Marx Brothers.
4:30 pm THE NIGHT OF SHOOTING STARS
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
7:00 pm REQUIEM FOR A FOOL
Hans Alfredson. Sweden, 1981.
9:30 pm ARIA
Julien Temple, Charles Sturridge, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford,
Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Julien Jarman, Franc
Roddam, Nicolas Roeg and Ken Russell. England/USA 1987.
Monday, May 28
2:00 pm JEAN DE FLORETTE
Claude Berri. Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil.
4:30 pm MANON OF THE SPRING
7:00 pm JEAN DE FLORETTE
9:30 pm MANON OF THE SPRING
Tuesday, May 29
7:00 pm IN THE SHADOW OF STARS
Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
9:15 pm LUNA
Bernardo Bertolucci. Italy/US, 1979.
Wednesday, May 30
1:00 pm FITZCARRALDO
Werner Herzog. Germany, 1982.
4:30 pm FITZCARRALDO
8:00 pm FITZCARRALDO
Thursday, May 31
7:00 pm LA TRAVIATA
9:30 pm OTELLO
"Janos Gereben" <[log in to unmask]>
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