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Extractions: Shine DVD/ A, A New Line/1996/105/ANA 1.85 Shine is director Scott Hicks brilliant gift to film lovers. The scintillating story of damaged pianist David Helfgott, Hicks brings together a love of subject and intuitive cinematic magic to realize this celebration of film, art and life. Ten years from inspiration to completion, Shine is realized to perfection. Hicks not only chronicles Helfgotts life, he makes a fascinating study of the pressure to perform, while examining family relationships with an extremely sharp lens. The screenplay by Jan Sardi is literate and elegant, carefully choosing those moments in Helfgotts life that altered its course. But the film finds its greatness it the editing room. Hicks has worked the images into a musical life all their own. Shifting back and forth in time before moving to a linear conclusion works brilliantly with this material. Hicks makes all the right choices. The photography of Geoffrey Simpson is glorious. Careful lighting yields reveals subtleties of the directors vision. Characters live in shadow with light sources offering hope at pictures periphery. Take note of the beautiful Australian sunset when David visits Katharine Prichard. It is actually a night shoot with sunset created by Simpson lights.
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Extractions: The award winning film, Shine, was inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott. From a child prodigy, through years of hardship including a severe breakdown,...the film dramatized the deeply moving way in which Helfgott achieved both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of his remarkable wife, Gillian. Filmmaker, Scott Hicks, has said: "This was a story about a winner, ... an unlikely hero who achieves the one thing we all desire... he find his own place in the world, and someone with whom to share life, love and music...It's about being able to survive experiences that none of us would want and to come out on the other side..." David is back and larger than life! With his wife Gillian he is sharing his experiences with the whole world. Welcome to The Palace! We are truly
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Extractions: Book Description This is perhaps the most famous recording ever made of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, and probably the worst. Poor David Helfgott, who may have been a great virtuoso before his well-publicized mental breakdown, can barely hack his way through this concerto. Perhaps the cruel practice of issuing a live performance recording spares the expense of endless retakes, but it also exposes the pianist's severe deficiencies. The studio-recorded solo pieces are played accurately, perhaps due to endless retakes, but they are so devoid of musical impulse that Helfgott sounds as though he's on heavy tranquilizers. Try Alexis Weissenberg's version of the Rach 3 (RCA Victor Gold Seal 09026-61693-2), or anybody's. Leslie Gerber Customer Reviews I have listened to many interpretations of the Rach 3, and I am still forever searching for the perfect one. This recording with Helfgott, made around the same time as the movie was being conceptualised is a little messy. The Danish Philharmonic Orchestra who must have had a lot of patience dealing with Helfgott, are practically perfect in this interpretation. Helfgott on the other hand is sloppy. Especially in the intensive parts his play is a mess, as he muddles notes together. Although David Helfgott is an extremely remarkable musical talent, as Shine suggests, he is not known as a great pianist. All in all, the Rach 3 is the only thing worth listening to on this CD, but it is not interesting unless you are collecting Rach 3 interpretations.There are many better interpretations out there.
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Extractions: Book Description Australian pianist David Helfgott is fascinating as both artist and psychological subject; here's his story on both counts as told by his wife, Gillian. Now well known from his movie biography, the critically acclaimed Shine, the book gives a fuller account of his life and struggles to return to playing the piano and living a halfway normal life. Customer Reviews I play piano myself. I know the joys, the pleasures, the hardships, and the triumphs of piano playing every time I rest the tip of my fingers on the keyboard. David Helfgott, purely magnificent. I do not need to critique him. I know. I know music. I know Trueness. And together, he is the master that creates true music. What an inspiration. This book made me laugh and cry. It describes David so well that I could hear his voice in my head. "It's a mystery" to think that some people don't love this book!
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Extractions: Cecil Parkes: John Gielgud Directed by Scott Hicks . Written by Jan Sardi . Running time: 105 minutes. Classified PG-13 (for nudity/sensuality and intense thematic elements). By Roger Ebert Wandering in the rain, the man looks like one of the walking wounded. His talk is obsessive chatter, looping back on itself, seizing on words and finding nonsense associations for them. He laughs a lot and seems desperately affable. When he sits down at a piano in a crowded restaurant, he looks like trouble, until he starts to play. His music floods out like a cry of anguish and hope. This is the central image in Scott Hicks' ``Shine,'' based on the true story of an Australian pianist who was an international prodigy, suffered a breakdown and has gradually been able to piece himself back together. The musician's name is David Helfgott. His life story is not exactly as it is shown here, but close enough, I gather, for us to marvel at the way the human spirit can try to heal itself. The movie circles in time, using three actors to play Helfgott. Alex Rafalowicz is young David, encouraged to excel at music and chess by a domineering father who slams the chessboard and shouts, ``You must always win!'' He is savage when his son places second in a national competition. Noah Taylor, so good in ``Flirting,'' plays the adolescent David, who blossoms at the piano, but is forbidden by his father to accept a scholarship offered by violin great Isaac Stern. Geoffrey Rush plays David as an adult who goes mad and then slowly heals with the help of an understanding woman.
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Extractions: Director: Scott Hicks; Producer: Jane Scott; Screenplay: Jan Sardi and Scott Hicks; Photography: Geoffrey Simpson; Production Design: Vicki Niehus; Editing: Pip Karmel; Music: David Hirschfelder. Stars: Geoffrey Rush (David Helfgott, Adult), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Peter Helfgott) Noah Taylor (David Helfgott, Adolescent), Lynn Redgrave (Gillian), Googie Withers (Katherine Susannah Pritchard), Sonia Todd (Sylvia), Nicholas Bell (Ben Rosen), John Gielgud (Professor Cecil Parkes), Justin Braine (Tony), Chris Haywood (Sam) A film nowadays rarely achieves perfection. Shine comes damn close. Taken at first glance, the true story of an Australian child prodigy pianist who suffers a mental breakdown and spends years in institutions, only to re-emerge and become a concert pianist would normally have the multiplex audiences running for the exits. But wait and, please, give Shine a chance to prove that it is one of the most finely crafted films for a long time. Shine As I said, in description
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Extractions: B ased on the troubled life of Australian concert pianist David Helfgott, Scott Hicks's playful Shine steers clear of the linear arc of conventional biopics while maintaining a broad accessibility that won the movie top prizes from both the press and the public at the 1996 Toronto Film Festival. The movie darts back and forth in time, mimicking the structure of a concerto as it traces the roots of David's emotionally unstable adulthood to his unhappy youth under the repressive wing of his ambitious father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Polish-Jewish refugee whose rigidity is outstripped only by devotion to an abstract idea of family unity that cripples his sensitive son. Escaping England to study under the legendary music teacher Cecil Parkes (John Gielgud), David suffers a complete collapse after a triumphant performance and returns to a life spent in and out of mental institutions in Australia. Brilliant performances by Noah Taylor ( The Year My Voice Broke ) as the young David and Geoffrey Rush as the adult David convey not only his nerdy pathos but also the hyperkinetic charm that drew so many kind people to him, including the astrologer (Lynn Redgrave) who helped to salvage his life and career. Jan Sardi's screenplay, though witty, presses almost every line of dialogue into the service of a simplistic master narrativedamaged father produces damaged sonthat stops this touching, expert, and often wildly funny movie just short of greatness. Still, one is left hungering for a sequel that chronicles the astonishing match between David and his astrologer.
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Extractions: Reviewed by Van T. Tran New Line, widescreen 1.85:1/16x9, languages: English DD 5.1, French Digital Stereo, subtitles: English, French, Spanish, double side-single layer, 22 chapters, rated PG-13, 103 min., $24.99, street date 9/3/97. Supplements: Academy Awards: Winner of Best Actor-Geoffrey Rush. Nominated for Best Picture-Jane Scott, Best Director-Scott Hicks, Best Supporting Actor-Armin Mueller-Stahl, Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen-Scott Hicks, Jan Sardi, Best Original Dramatic Score-David Hirschfelder, Best Film Editing-Philippa Karmel, 1997. Directed by Scott Hicks. Starring Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Alex Rafalowicz, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave, Googie Withers, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, John Gielgud. O pening in the early 1980's, Shine begins as David (Geoffrey Rush), a man in his forties, stumbles into a wine bar after getting lost one night in driving rain. Although he is wildly eccentric, David charms the bar's owner, Sylvia (Sonia Todd). When Sylvia takes David home, it appears that he is living in some sort of halfway house, under someone's care. Despite his unorthodox lifestyle and personality, Sylvia is impressed with David's brilliant skills as a pianist and gives him a regular job playing at her bar. David's impromptu performance for Sylvia is, in fact, the first time he has been at a piano in more than a decade. Inspired by this, he is transported back to his childhood in which everything seemed to revolve around the piano. Though just a little boy, David (Alex Rafalowicz) is pushed by his father, Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl) to excel as a pianist. A Polish-Jewish refugee who emigrated before World War II, Peter is enamored of music, though he himself was denied the opportunity to pursue it. Having lost most of his family in the Holocaust, all Peter has left are his four children, and the only thing of value he has to give them is his beloved music.
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Extractions: Other News TIME Asia TIME.com CNN Asia FORTUNE.com ... AOL.com By Peter Hutchings / Sydney A PIANO PLAYER, A nervous breakdown and a middle-age career comeback not exactly the usual plot elements of a box-office hit in Australia or anywhere else for that matter. Indeed, Shine, based on the life of troubled Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, boasts not so much as a B-list Hollywood star (see following review). But the $4.6-million feature, now opening throughout Asia, has already inspired audiences on three continents, even prompting director Steven Spielberg to comment: "This is a film I wish I'd made myself." Since its debut at 1996's Sundance Film Festival, Shine has won nine Australian Film Institute awards. Last week, it was honored with seven Oscar nominations, including best film, best director for Scott Hicks and best actor for Geoffrey Rush. Rush, who plays the adult David, has already received four best-actor awards, including a Golden Globe. Hicks has signed an independent development deal for future productions with Spielberg's DreamWorks. Helfgott's 1995 recording of Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 3" (the piece associated in the film with his breakdown) has become a chart hit in Australia, Britain and the U.S. Already, the film has grossed $6 million in Australia and $16 million in America.
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Extractions: Mark Tillie Shoot the Piano Playing: Pianist David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) attacks the keys with shattering intensity in "Shine." 'Shine' tracks the roller-coaster career of troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott By Richard von Busack F OR SHEER TECHNIQUE, Shine will be so highly praised that people will be blinded to its occasional slickness. Even some of the most blatant scenes are effective. A good example is the depiction of a piano recital in the same visual terms as one of the fights in Raging Bull . The borrowing from Scorsese comes complete with the slow-motion halo of sweat and the hero's fall to the canvasexcuse me, to the floor of the recital hall. Years later, the undone pianist, David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush), is raving away in the mental hospital, talking almost incoherently to a visiting woman playing "Bicycle Built for Two" on the spinet in the day room. When Helfgott tells her his name, the music abruptly stops, just like the saloon piano used to when the gunslinger walked through the swinging doors. Shine Online: The Fine Line Features Shine web page.
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Extractions: Black and White: 'Shine' depicts pianist David Helfgott's keys to sanity. Pianist Jeffrey Kahane shines Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This time out, he meets up with esteemed pianist/conductor Jeffrey Kahane of the Santa Rosa Symphony to discuss the musically savvy, critically acclaimed film Shine RENOWNED MUSICIAN Jeffrey Kahane is a man so desperately busy that he has not been out to a movie theater in days, weeks, months. Furthermore, I am politely informed, he probably won't make it to a movie anytime soon. Though intrigued by my offer to see the brilliant new film Shine the story of Australian pianist David Helfgott and his roller-coaster relationship with sanity and Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concertoand admittedly eager to see it, Kahane has expressed concerns that he would not be able to find the spare time to go off to a show. Fortunately, a conveniently released videocassette of the film (intended for homebound Oscar voters;
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Extractions: reviewed on this website: Hearts in Atlantis It may seem cruel to pick on a life-affirming movie based on the true story of a man learning to live with mental illness, but Shine , which has gotten wide acclaim and seven Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), isn't exactly an underdog. I didn't hate it the middle section is intriguing. But the film overall is no more striking or moving than your average triumph-over-hardship TV movie. Shine is about David Helfgott, played by three actors (Alex Rafalowicz in boyhood, Noah Taylor in his teens and twenties, Geoffrey Rush in adulthood), an Australian piano prodigy bullied into excellence by his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Whenever David's talent threatens to take him away from his family, the father stomps him flat with a guilt trip. We see that David plays (and lives) more for Daddy than for himself.
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Extractions: "You're a very lucky boy, David." SHINE (PG-13) Hailing from Australia and currently gracing many people's "ten best" list is Shine , a film which tells the true-life story of David Helfgott, a brilliant child prodigy pianist who is driven to madness in the face of his genius. In Shine , we get a hauntingly complex view of Helfgott's life, exploring a quietly destructive relationship with his overbearing father, an incredible passion and talent for music, and the mental collapse that either one or both of these brings forth. Along the way, we are treated to absolutely stellar performances by Noah Taylor (as the young David), Geoffrey Rush (as the adult David), and Armin Mueller-Stahl (as David's father), and some wonderful musical selections (piano pieces, of course) by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and others. So, why not a higher rating? Well, one would suppose (as I did) that a film blessed with such great acting performances and an engaging "based-on-true-life" story would provide for a powerful, moving, and potentially enlightening movie experience. It should. Unfortunately, Shine doesn't quite get there. It's hard to describe what's missing in the
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