Let's travel back in time to 1910, when the skirts were longer, the hats bigger and the films way silent-er. Behold, 17 reasons 1910 was a golden year for culture.
1.) A 16-minute film adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is released.
2.) Mardi Gras looked especially creepy.
3.) Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" premieres in Paris.
4.) Silent fantasy film "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" brings black-and-white ruby slippers to the screen.
5.) Egon Schiele paints a kneeling nude self-portrait aptly titled "Kneeling nude self-portrait."
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6.) Garment workers go on strike in New York City.
7.) Mark Twain passed away at 74 years old. In his biography he wrote: "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
8.) Russian lit giant Leo Tolstoy died at 82 years old.
1.) A 16-minute film adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is released.
2.) Mardi Gras looked especially creepy.
3.) Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" premieres in Paris.
4.) Silent fantasy film "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" brings black-and-white ruby slippers to the screen.
5.) Egon Schiele paints a kneeling nude self-portrait aptly titled "Kneeling nude self-portrait."
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6.) Garment workers go on strike in New York City.
7.) Mark Twain passed away at 74 years old. In his biography he wrote: "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
8.) Russian lit giant Leo Tolstoy died at 82 years old.
- 8/29/2013
- by Priscilla Frank
- Huffington Post
This is a polished but unmoving account of the affair between two 20th-century greats
There's a wonderful moment in Clint Eastwood's Bird, when Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie make an expedition one night to the Los Angeles home of their idol, Igor Stravinsky. They ring the bell at the front garden gate and stand in the shadows, afraid to approach the great man when he appears in the doorway in that famous hook-nosed silhouette. You sense their awe in the presence of a God‑like figure who still answers his own doorbell.
Adapted by the British writer Chris Greenhalgh from his speculative novel, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky takes us back to the second decade of the 20th century, when the basis of the Stravinsky legend was being laid and more or less to the point where last year's Coco Before Chanel ends. The movie begins with one of the epic moments of cultural modernism,...
There's a wonderful moment in Clint Eastwood's Bird, when Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie make an expedition one night to the Los Angeles home of their idol, Igor Stravinsky. They ring the bell at the front garden gate and stand in the shadows, afraid to approach the great man when he appears in the doorway in that famous hook-nosed silhouette. You sense their awe in the presence of a God‑like figure who still answers his own doorbell.
Adapted by the British writer Chris Greenhalgh from his speculative novel, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky takes us back to the second decade of the 20th century, when the basis of the Stravinsky legend was being laid and more or less to the point where last year's Coco Before Chanel ends. The movie begins with one of the epic moments of cultural modernism,...
- 8/7/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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