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Jon Else,
Jon Else
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: New Video Group
: Documentary, Music, Biographies, Documentary, Music
: 56 min.
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Wagner's massive opera cycle Der Ring Des Nibelungen is examined from a fresh perspective in this documentary from director Jon Else -- from the point of view of the stagehands. The San Francisco Opera Company is performing the entire 17-hour "Ring" cycle over four nights, and a group of union stagehands ends up pulling a 85-hour week as they try to keep the show running smoothly. In between hauling scenery back and forth and making the special effects work, the crew members play cards, squabble among themselves and try to make sense of the opera's German-language story (as one member of the tech crew puts it, "Every time the gold changes hands, somebody ends up dead"). Sing Faster won honors in its premier showing at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| For People Who Like to Watch -- Others at Work
by squad
November 23, 2004 - 6:41 PM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| First, it does give you Wagner condensed, showing the entire work in stop-action-accelerated, but if you slow your dvd player way down it goes by in 90 seconds instead of 45 (estimate). The documentary also is a serious and respectful look at the dozens of people involved in staging an opera. They are good natured and hard working. It is, I think, an hour in length, made for tv. Really quite fascinating. DVD extras are text-only, except for some trailers for other documentaries. |
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