#betweendrafts — Public Fediverse posts

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Bayreuther Festspiele 2024: Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde by Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson and Semyon Bychkov

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/07/28/bayreuther-festspiele-2024-richard-wagners-tristan-und-isolde-by-orleifur-oern-arnarsson-and-semyon-bychkov/

#music #bayreuth #wagner #tristan

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Tonhalle: Mahler 5, Bansal, Haydn

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/03/12/tonhalle-mahler-5-bansal-haydn/

Two great symphonies and a commission that were thoroughly enjoyable.

#düsseldorf #tonhalle #mahler #concert #music

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Wei Shujun’s 河边的错误 [He bian de cuo wu/Mistake(s) by the River]

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/03/07/wei-shujuns-he-bian-de-cuo-wumistakes-by-the-river/

Welcome to Wei’s postmodern neo-noir period mystery rabbit hole.

#movie #cinema

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/03/06/jonathan-glazers-the-zone-of-interest/

An extraordinary movie that is, and should be, deeply disturbing.

#TheZoneofInterest #movies #cinema

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Dune: Part Two

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/03/01/denis-villeneuves-dune-and-dune-part-two/

A treat you don’t want to miss.

#Dune

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — The Quatuor Ébène String Quartet at Robert-Schumann-Saal, Düsseldorf

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/02/19/the-quatuor-bne-string-quartet-at-robert-schumann-saal-duesseldorf/

Another thoroughly enjoyable string quartet experience.

#StringQuartet #QuatuorÉbène #music

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Trần Anh Hùng’s ノルウェイの森 [Noruwei no Mori/Norwegian Wood]

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/02/15/trn-anh-hngs-noruwei-no-mori/

An enjoyable movie worthy of a better script.

#movies #cinema #murakami

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/02/11/luc-bessons-the-fifth-element/

A collection of enormously silly adolescent fantasies, but entertaining.

#movie #cinema #thefifthelement

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Manfred Trojahn’s Septembersonate by Johannes Erath and Vitali Alekseenok

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/02/06/manfred-trojahns-septembersonate-by-johannes-erath-and-vitali-alekseenok/

A chamber play with a chamber orchestra focused not on dramatic events but internal torments.

#opera #music

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Sammlung Philara: “What Is Steady Anyway?” & “Artichoke Underground”

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/02/04/sammlung-philara-what-is-steady-anyway-artichoke-underground/

#art #SammlungPhilara

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — “Bodies, Grids, and Ecstasy” Exhibition at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation—Margret Eicher and Lena Schramm in Conversation with Dr. Sebastian Baden

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/01/27/bodies-grids-and-ecstasy-exhibition-at-kai-10-arthena-foundationmargret-eicher-and-lena-schramm-in-conversation-with-dr-sebastian-baden/

Postmodernism galore, just the way I like it.

#arthena #arthenafoundation #BodiesGridsandEcstasy #MargretEicher #LenaSchramm #art #exhibition

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Miyazaki Hayao’s 君たちはどう生きるか [How Do Y’all Live?]

Seven years of development are more than enough for a script to lose focus.

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/01/19/miyazaki-hayaos-how-do-yall-live/

#StudioGhibli #ghibli #miyazaki #TheBoyandtheHeron #movie #cinema

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/01/19/wim-wenderss-perfect-days/

If, at the end, you don’t know whether to be joyful or sad, you’re in good company.

#PerfectDays #movie #cinema

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — David Ayer’s The Beekeeper

https://betweendrafts.com/2024/01/18/david-ayers-the-beekeeper/

The exact dose of gratuitously violent popcorn entertainment I was looking for.

#movies #cinema #TheBeekeeper

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America | National Gallery Singapore

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/22/tropical-stories-from-southeast-asia-and-latin-america-national-gallery-singapore/

If you happen to be in Singapore between now and March 24, 2024, don’t miss this! :)

#Singapore #art #exhibition #colonialism

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Singapore Adventure: Shōnan Jinja

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/18/singapore-adventure-shnan-jinja/

Yes, we crawled through a tropical jungle and back for a destroyed World War II shrine.

#singapore #jinja #jungle

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Chaïm Soutine Exhibition | K20

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/11/cham-soutine-exhibition-k20/

How cool would it be to create a game where you live inside the worlds of these paintings.

#art #exhibition #expressionism #K20

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — notabu.ensemble neue musik | DEC 6, 2023

With respect to art music, this year ends as fantastic as it began.

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/10/notabu-ensemble-neue-musik-dec-6-2023/

#music #modernclassical

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Name of the Rose

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/10/jean-jacques-annauds-the-name-of-the-rose/

The book holds up well, the movie not so much.

#movie #cinema

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/05/ridley-scotts-napoleon/

Sadly, it left me cold from the first scene to the last.

#movie #cinema #napoleon #RidleyScott

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Yamazaki Takashi’s『ゴジラ-1.0』[Gojira Mainasu Wan]

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/03/yamazaki-takashis-1-0gojira-mainasu-wan/

Hands down one of the best movies in Tōhō’s Kaijū franchise.

#movie #cinema #gojira #godzilla #japan

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — “Bodies, Grids, and Ecstasy” Exhibition at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation—Verena Issel and Roy Mordechay in Conversation with Ludwig Seyfarth

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/12/01/bodies-grids-and-ecstasy-exhibition-at-kai-10-arthena-foundationverena-issel-and-roy-mordechay-in-conversation-with-ludwig-seyfarth/

From grids to layers to memory, so much of it was right up my alley.

#art #exhibition #installation #painting #arthena #arthenafoundation

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/25/don-coscarellis-phantasm/

For what the movie wants to be, it’s pretty darn good.

#movie #cinema #horror #phantasm

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/21/hou-hsiao-hsiens-millennium-mambo/

Somewhat spoilery, but plot in this incredible movie isn’t the point.

#movie #film #cinema #millenniummambo

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — The Juilliard String Quartet at Robert-Schumann-Saal, Düsseldorf

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/18/the-juilliard-string-quartet-at-robert-schumann-saal-duesseldorf/

Absolute treat for every string quartet aficionado.

#beethoven #Schubert #Juilliard #classicalmusic #StringQuartet

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Yuval Adler’s Sympathy for the Devil

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/16/yuval-adlers-sympathy-for-the-devil/

An entertaining two-hander with all the antics you can expect from a Nicolas Cage movie.

#movie #cinema #NicolasCage

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Der Besuch der alten Dame by Laura Linnenbaum

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/12/friedrich-duerrenmatts-der-besuch-der-alten-dame-by-laura-linnenbaum/

Great mood and acting, but too many compactifications.

#schauspielhausdüsseldorf #düsseldorferschauspielhaus #besuchderaltendame #derbesuchderaltendame

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — Tobe Hooper’s (Sort Of) Poltergeist

Now with an addendum on CRT TV sets.

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/10/28/tobe-hoopers-sort-of-poltergeist/

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — 『PLAN 75』 by Hayakawa Chie

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/11/plan-75-by-hayakawa-chie/

A movie that’s not easy to digest, but apparently easy to misunderstand.

#blogpost | #betweendrafts — もののけ姫 [Mononoke Hime] by Miyazaki Hayao

With an excursion into conflict types and Greek Tragedy.

https://betweendrafts.com/2023/11/01/mononoke-hime-by-miyazaki-hayao/