Epinions Recent Reviews for tlimjoco

Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances / Mutter, Masur, NYPO: Twilight Zone Moments with Mutter

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 02:43:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - I never imagined I'd ever down-rate one by Anne-Sophie Mutter for reasons to do with the German violinist herself, but in this case, it just can’t be helped. Two-and-a-half stars are all that this sadly disappointing disc merits from me, an avowed Mut...

Mozart - Die Zauberflote: Modern Minimalist Mozart

Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:32:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - Opera-haters may just succumb to the charms of this delightful stage version of ‘The Magic Flute’, W...

Possession: LaBute’s Topological Trick Does Not Amuse

Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:36:50 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - It might have been an intriguing premise on paper: a secret love affair between poets from a century and a half ago casts a spell on a modern day couple amid the latter’s sleuthing about said affair. Based on A.S. Byatt’s novel of the same name, &...

Mostly Martha: Getting to Know Martha

Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:25:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - At one point in ‘Mostly Martha’, the title character finds herself at her wits’ end and says to her niece, Lina, ‘I wish I had a recipe for you that I could follow.’ Unfortunately, learning how to deal with the complex psyche of Hom...

Heaven: The Stars Glow in ‘Heaven’

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:44:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - Early on in ‘Heaven’, we see a woman--Philippa, an expatriate English teacher living in Turin, Italy--preparing what appears to be a timed explosive device. Driven by frustration with the inaction of the carabinieri as regards an alleged drug lord...

Bach: 48 Preludes and Fugues - The Well Tempered Clavier: Four Pianists Present "The 48" in All Their Intellectual, Spiritual and Musical Splendor

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:20:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

"Right from the beginning, you have some musical invitation to the music of Bach, and then you live with it for the rest of your life."

— pianist Nikolai Demidenko, from J. S. Bach: 48 Preludes and...

Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier: Pianophile Finds Paradise

Sun, 8 Dec 2002 01:54:07 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

It's uncanny. Writer Thad Carhart seems to know me. The "me" here and now who obsesses endlessly about music, especially classical music and Johann Sebastian Bach; who against all hope and want of skill recently took to tickling the...

Martha Argerich - Live From the Concertgebouw 1978/79: Turbocharged, Yes, But Elegant, Too

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:41:20 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Too fast. Too sloppy.

That's the sort of criticism that has been leveled at these live performances of Argentine-born pianist extraordinaire Martha Argerich, recorded in 1978 and 1979 and released in 2000 by EMI...

Where We Live * by Grace Pool: Last, Lovely and Lost

Tue, 8 Oct 2002 01:50:38 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

A mystery as to why, but all of the two precious Grace Pool CDs have remained out-of-print for nearly a decade. 10,000 Maniacs hit the stores and radio stations at the same time, and you still hear about them (not that they're...

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins: As Close to Heaven As One Might Get (Rev-Repost)

Tue, 1 Oct 2002 01:18:02 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - Dreamy, gorgeous, mesmerizing, with celestial vocals and intriguingly opaque lyrics--a completely sensuous aural experience is what you get listening to the Cocteau Twins. Heaven or Las Vegas might rank as their most accomplished and lushly...

Behind The Eyes by Amy Grant: At Long Last, We Get Behind the Eyes of Amy Grant

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:44:56 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Finally, Amy Grant reveals the person behind those eyes on this 1997 album. No, I'm far from being a dyed-in-the-wool Amy Grant fan and haven't slavishly followed her career through its ups, ups, and recent downs over the last two decades,...

Stardom: Long Shots and Pans But No Real Close-Ups in this Media Satire

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:09:02 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Denys Arcand's Stardom (2000) can occasionally feel as vacuous as the subject it seeks to mock.

Perhaps I had expected far too much from the fellow who gave us the incisive and funny Decline and Fall of the American...

Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, etc / Mutter, Previn: Music That Makes Your Hair Stand on End (in a Good Way)--the "Embettered" Repost

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:27:45 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Like the beginnings of so many daring, virtuosic pieces so popular in the violin repertoire today, Jean Sibelius' (1865 - 1957) Violin Concerto (in D Minor, op. 47) received a negative reception at its premiere on 8 February 1904,...

Va Savoir: Six Characters in Search of Love

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:49:55 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

There's a wordless sequence in Va Savoir! (2001) that deserves inclusion in the list of "memorable moments in cinema." It's the one that occurs later in the film, and has our theatre actress anti-heroine Camille discovering an "escape hatch"...

Five Senses: A Kieslowskiesque Meditation

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:24:09 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

A surprisingly lovely little film, The Five Senses is a Kieslowskiesque* tale of five intersecting stories, each having one of the five senses as its central theme:

Taste- Rona (Mary-Louise Parker) decorates cakes...

Lessons of Darkness/Fata Morgana: Apocalypse Then and. . .?

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:11:38 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - We are not told the name of the city. A large, blue-white minaret looms into view as the helicopter glides above this modest little center of human habitation set just on the edge of the water. It seems like dusk, and the air is very quiet save for the...

In Praise of Older Women: A Joyful, Charming, Sensual Memoir by a Man Who Truly Loves Women

Mon, 9 Sep 2002 03:24:32 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

" …no girl, however intelligent and warm-hearted, can possibly know or feel half as much at twenty as she will at thirty-five."

--from In Praise of Older Women

His culture did not worship...

Bad Manners: Game Theory as Guiding Principle: Who Wins?

Sun, 1 Sep 2002 01:06:27 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Director Jonathan Kaufer's engrossing and wickedly enjoyable Bad Manners (1997) is instructive for its success in translating a play to film. Adapted by David Gilman from his own stage play, Ghost in the Machine, it...

Plague: Luis Puenzo's La Peste/The Plague : Imperfect, But Still Compelling, Non-Literal Adaptation

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 02:11:41 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

"There's a little of the plague in all of us. Some don't know it but others make it a way of life. Those of us who know have to be careful not to breathe into other people's faces, not to be distracted. …The honest man is the one who does just...

C'est La Vie - Henri Dikongue: Henri Dikongué Brings a Fresh Sound and Sophistication to Cameroon's Pop Music

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:09:23 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Afro-pop can be accused of focusing exclusively on beat-driven dance music, and that's true much of the time. Rhythms do tend to overshadow all other elements in the genre. And since rhythm even more than melody strikes at one of the most basic...

La Petite Apocalypse: Going Against Type: A Costa-Gavras Comedy!

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:01:37 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

Yes, indeed, it is a comedy, and it’s also a Constantin Costa-Gavras film. The same serious fellow who gave us Z and Missing, among other heavy (and heavy-handed), left-leaning political dramas, shifts gears and delights...

Wuthering Heights: Much Ado About Nothing

Sat, 10 Aug 2002 04:38:06 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco -

A bomb. A dud. Ce film ne marche pas!

Whatever you call it or however you describe it, this film from 1985 is a simple embarrassment. Hard to believe it was made by Jacques Rivette, the same fellow who gave us such...

Jeanne la Pucelle - Savall, Dufay, et al / Savall, et al: Beautifully Evocative of the Life and Times of Jeanne d'Arc

Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:36:44 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - Standing as a silent witness to a millenium-and-a-half of history in the region of Metz, France, the basilica of St.-Pierre-aux-Nonnais predates by several centuries the time of Jeanne d'Arc / Joan of Arc, that brave martyred teenager from the Lorraine...

Mary Gordon - Joan of Arc: Writers' Reflections on Jeanne d'Arc, Part I: Novelist Mary Gordon

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:56:01 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - "There is no one like her."

--From the Introduction to Joan of Arc

What a wonderful use it is of a novelist's skills to explore the life, person and times of a historical figure. Of history writers...

Christopher Hibbert - The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age: Christopher Hibbert Serves Up Delightful and Lively History in The Virgin Queen

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:08:37 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tlimjoco - "At the time of the execution of her mother, Princess Elizabeth was two years and eight months old. She was a pretty child, far more closely resembling her father than her mother, who might have been taken for a Spaniard. Her hair was much the color...

Epinions Recent Reviews for tlimjoco

Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances / Mutter, Masur, NYPO: Twilight Zone Moments with Mutter

Mozart - Die Zauberflote: Modern Minimalist Mozart

Possession: LaBute’s Topological Trick Does Not Amuse

Mostly Martha: Getting to Know Martha

Heaven: The Stars Glow in ‘Heaven’

Bach: 48 Preludes and Fugues - The Well Tempered Clavier: Four Pianists Present "The 48" in All Their Intellectual, Spiritual and Musical Splendor

Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier: Pianophile Finds Paradise

Martha Argerich - Live From the Concertgebouw 1978/79: Turbocharged, Yes, But Elegant, Too

Where We Live * by Grace Pool: Last, Lovely and Lost

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins: As Close to Heaven As One Might Get (Rev-Repost)

Behind The Eyes by Amy Grant: At Long Last, We Get Behind the Eyes of Amy Grant

Stardom: Long Shots and Pans But No Real Close-Ups in this Media Satire

Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, etc / Mutter, Previn: Music That Makes Your Hair Stand on End (in a Good Way)--the "Embettered" Repost

Va Savoir: Six Characters in Search of Love

Five Senses: A Kieslowskiesque Meditation

Lessons of Darkness/Fata Morgana: Apocalypse Then and. . .?

In Praise of Older Women: A Joyful, Charming, Sensual Memoir by a Man Who Truly Loves Women

Bad Manners: Game Theory as Guiding Principle: Who Wins?

Plague: Luis Puenzo's La Peste/The Plague : Imperfect, But Still Compelling, Non-Literal Adaptation

C'est La Vie - Henri Dikongue: Henri Dikongué Brings a Fresh Sound and Sophistication to Cameroon's Pop Music

La Petite Apocalypse: Going Against Type: A Costa-Gavras Comedy!

Wuthering Heights: Much Ado About Nothing

Jeanne la Pucelle - Savall, Dufay, et al / Savall, et al: Beautifully Evocative of the Life and Times of Jeanne d'Arc

Mary Gordon - Joan of Arc: Writers' Reflections on Jeanne d'Arc, Part I: Novelist Mary Gordon

Christopher Hibbert - The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age: Christopher Hibbert Serves Up Delightful and Lively History in The Virgin Queen