Comments on: 934. Unfaithfully Yours (1948, Preston Sturges) – video essay

By: Health_Campus

Health_Campus — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:10:06 +0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

By: classical music

classical music — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:41:53 +0000

I agree the orchestra still have to work more with their music, well you had mentioned all the things I want to say, they should created a music that will best fit the movie.

By: skin care

skin care — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:35:18 +0000

Wonderful video..I loved it alot..The orchestra is not much good..

By: Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » Thoughts (and a Call to Action) on the Latest Update to the 1000 Greatest Films

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:18:34 +0000

[...] Getting back to the current update, I am happy to see a number of films added (or in some cases re-added) to the list, especially Rose Hobart, one of my favorite films, as well as Fort Apache, Angel Face, An American in Paris, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Vive L’amour, which marks the TSPDT 1000 debut of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. I’m glad that Quadrophenia is back, as it makes my original entry on the film relevant again. The same goes double for the three video essays for movies that were taken off the list a year ago but are happily back: Evil Dead II, The Heiress, and Unfaithfully Yours. [...]

By: Elaine Fine

Elaine Fine — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:21:36 +0000

Don’t you think that intact performance of Rossini’s Semiramide is in the film to get the music into the “inner ear” of the otherwise musically less-literate movie audience in order to prepare Alfred Newman’s great parody of the music in the scene towards the end of the film?

Also, in the orchestral shots, Sturges didn’t have to use character actors for visual interest because they were already there: note the faces of the piccolo player and the second bassoon.

The orchestra, if you notice, never looks at Sir Alfred. If they did, they would be sunk. His beat is deliberately bad (Harrison had no sense of music: he couldn’t carry a tune), and I’m sure that Sturges (advised by the brilliant Alfred Newman) knew that musicians and music lovers would “get it.” Another joke: the two harpists in the Rossini were probably actors (or props). The Rossini doesn’t call for even a single harp.

By: Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » 934. Unfaithfully Yours (1948, Preston Sturges)

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:48:22 +0000

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