Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca's Kiss, which has developed an underground cult following over the years and is a favorite among opera and music lovers worldwide, director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these won...
「KAZUO OHNO」はダニエルシュミット監督による短編映画(14分、カラー)。1994年に横浜の劇場テアトルフォンテ、晴海埠頭、自宅で撮影され、翌年公開された。
「O氏の肖像」(モノクロ)は1969年制作で監督は長野千秋。1968年から舞台公演を行わなくなった大野一雄は、長野千秋監督と映画制作に没頭し、実験精神にあふれた「O氏三部作」を発表。本作品はその第1作。自分の内面をこれでもかと掘り下げていくその作業が、大野一雄の伝説的な舞台復帰を用意した。
Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense documents the eventful life and cinematic legacy of an exceptional Swiss film and opera director. It spans the filmmaker's formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Swiss Alps; follows his escape to a turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love of cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film travels with Schmid through tim...
"Schmid’s satire on 19th-century class relations is also a thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places (the basic idea reminds Pirandello and a short story by Poe where the inmates of a asylum switch places with the doctors.) A troupe o...
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist...
