SHINE (An Illusion Review By Joan Ellis.) A Illusion review by Joan Ellis. Without Geoffrey Rush s amazing performance asclassical pianist david helfgott, Shine might have been an ordinary movie. http://www.joanellis.com/reviews/SHINE.htm
Extractions: The unexplained whys and wherefores and the too facile assumptions of the film evaporate under the light and joyous performance of Geoffrey Rush. Without Geoffrey Rush's amazing performance as classical pianist David Helfgott, "Shine" might have been an ordinary movie. With it, we are all too happy to brush aside the questions that would otherwise diminish the movie. His performance simply obliterates the problems. The complexities of David's father, Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl), manifest themselves as rigid Prussian cruelty. Peter's parents, and those of his wife, were killed in the Holocaust, and he guards his own family fiercely, controlling every aspect of their lives. He escorts his young son, David (played at various ages by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor, and Geoffrey Rush), to piano competitions as if the boy were a puppy, his father's exhibit. After David loses the competition while trying to play a piano that is rolling away from him, Peter's scorn and disappointment etch themselves on the boy's heart. When David earns a chance to go to America to study, his father vetoes the trip with the desperation of a man who believes that, if he cannot hold his family within his house, he cannot protect them. "I'm not going to let anyone destroy this family," is his response to anything that might dilute his control.
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NPR : Performance Today For Thursday, December 26, 1996 . LATER THIS HOUR, PAT DOWELL. Later this hour, Pat Dowell reviewsthe movie Shine, pianist david helfgott s triumphant life story. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=26-Dec-1996
NPR : Performance Today For Wednesday, March 5, 1997 Martin talks with Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer about last night s recitalin Boston s Symphony Hall by Australian pianist david helfgott, the first http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=5-Mar-1997
Archives 1997 | R: ARCHIVE, S: MOVIES, D: 04/03/1997, folks behind the Oscars must have been apprehensive about david helfgott live afterreading those calamitous reports of the Australian pianist s East Coast http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archives/1997/documents/00524487.htm
Extractions: R: ARCHIVE, S: MOVIES, D: 04/03/1997, Does it Shine Further thoughts on the phenomenon Shine protagonist remains an unbalanced, unwell man, and (b) his piano playing is spasmodic, arrhythmic, and totally unworthy of the concert hall. Still, Helfgott went on as promised at the Academy Awards, and he got away with a finger-exercise Flight of the Bumblebee on a dubious music night of torch songs from Kenny Loggins and Celine Dion. He played fast and tricky, piling on intertwined notes, and lost the rhythm only a couple of times. Geoffrey Rush, as everyone predicted, got Best Actor for his unerring Shine re-creation of Helfgott's buzzed, Lucky-in- Waiting for Godot riffs and huggy Harpo Marx personality. Otherwise, Shine was stepped on by The English Patient in every Oscar category where it was nominated. Is that because The English Patient is such an unbelievably strong film? Or was it that Helfgott's concert debacle made Shine lovers hesitate on their ballots, made them wonder whether the film hadn't duped them. Who can defend Shine 's sunshine, holistic, on-stage ending, which cajoles us to believe that today's Helfgott not only plays beautifully but is closing in on achieving mental stability?
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Extractions: For more film reviews by Alan Stone, click here or choose from a list of A high-culture docudrama presents a profoundly misleading portrait of mental disorder. Shine , the Australian film about the life of pianist David Helfgott, was an unexpected success at the box office, garnered an Oscar nomination as best picture, and earned Geoffrey Rush the prize for best actor. Though Rush, an accomplished Australian stage actor, had almost no previous experience in film, he was surrounded by film veterans. Armin Mueller-Stahl, who played Peter Helfgott (David's father), earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. An extraordinary film actor/political activist/intellectual, Mueller-Stahl may be remembered as the farmer in Agnieszka Holland's first major film, Angry Harvest . John Geilgud and Lynne Redgrave, too, have important roles in the film and add their pedigree and polish to the effort. Shine is also beautifully craftedtied together by visual images that lend poetic depthand the music is wonderful. The film has made Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto the best-selling classical CD in the country and is even being credited with reviving American interest in classical music. Despite all these redeeming contributions to high culture
David Helfgott To Shine In Wollongong Australian pianist david helfgott, the subject of the multiaward winning featurefilm Shine, will perform at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre on Friday, 3 http://media.uow.edu.au/archive/oldbytes8/media/helfgott.html
Extractions: 2 August 1999 Australian pianist David Helfgott, the subject of the multi-award winning feature film Shine, will perform at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre on Friday, 3 September. He studies in London before suffering an illness which prompted his return to Australia in 1970. He emerged in 1984 from more than a decade of obscurity to give his first recital in 12 years. He has been in constant demand ever since, touring Europe, America and Australia as a recitalist and concerto soloist.
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Extractions: document.write(''+''); // document.write("" + daysofweek[dayofweek] + ", " + months[month] + " " + day + ""); monthArray = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"); array = parseInt(currentissuemonth) document.write("" + 'Current Issue ' +monthArray[array-1] + " " + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); Home News The Forum The Gallery ... The Review By Brian Roe Published: Thursday, March 27, 2003 var schedule_link ="http://www.omnibusonline.com/media/paper193/template/templatemedia/2003_baseball.htm" Comment on this article With "The Pianist" receiving all sorts of accolades recently, why not rewind a few years back to another movie about a pianist? "Shine" is the true story of Australian David Helfgott, a young, gifted pianist with a domineering father. "Shine" is the story of Helfgott's life, from elementary age to his forties. The film chronicles the rise and fall of Helfgott's musical career and his extraordinary victory over adversity.
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Extractions: This tearjerker by Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks is a surprising story about real-life classical pianist David Helfgott, an Australian who rose to international prominence at a very young age in the 1950s and '60s, and suffered a psychological collapse after enduring years of abuse from his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Hicks has three very fine actors portraying Helfgott at different stages of his life, including the adorably wry and goofy Noah Taylor (
Arts Access Aotearoa: Pianist Inspired To Shine Even Brighter young Nelson man who was once too afraid to speak to strangers has won the heartsof music audiences in Australia, and the attention of pianist david helfgott. http://www.artsaccess.org.nz/pianist.htm
Extractions: By TRACY NEAL A young Nelson man who was once too afraid to speak to strangers has won the hearts of music audiences in Australia, and the attention of pianist David Helfgott. Zeb Wulff, who is working towards a degree in classical music at Massey University's Wellington campus, returned from performing at an Australian festival earlier this week with a new zest for pursuing his goal of becoming a concert pianist. Wulff, 23, has asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. It is a similar condition to that of Helfgott, whose life was portrayed in the film Shine, and who has endeared himself to audiences with his live performances. Australian national media filmed the pair performing together last weekend at the Wataboshi Music Festival in Brisbane - a premier event for musicians with disabilities throughout Asia and the Pacific. Wulff said it was more important meeting Helfgott as the person he was, rather than the musician.
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Extractions: Warner Books, $24 - All that shines is not gold, and the movie "Shine'' is composed of far baser elements: lies and greed. This is Margaret Helfgott's claim in "Out of Tune: David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine,'' and she makes a good case for it. "Shine'' is the 1996 blockbuster film about Margaret's younger brother David, a young pianist headed for greatness but derailed by the mental illness "caused'' by his tyrannical father, himself scarred by the Holocaust. On screen at least, David collapses after performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 - the fearsome "Rach 3'' - and is rescued by his astrologer wife, Gillian, who "resurrects'' his career and takes it to heights unreachable without her. The movie's hype included Gillian's own book, billed as "the true story that inspired "Shine,' '' and a CD of David playing the Rach 3, both best sellers. There was also a frenzied concert tour that appalled the critics and delighted the public for the same reason: its focus on David's psychiatric problems, rather than his musicianship. (The promoters claimed the critics were just suffering from "pianist envy.'') "Out of Tune'' methodically rebuts each distortion of David's life, quoting numerous friends and teachers who were shocked and angered by "Shine'' and never consulted in its preparation, despite being portrayed in it. The family was excluded and lied to for the decade it took to make the film.
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Extractions: The synopsis (true story):A highly gifted young pianist decides to pursue his dream as a concert pianist although his dominant and overbearing father forces him to leave the family in order to do so. Serious mental illness also plagues him throughout his life yet his infallible spirit wins out overall. First of all, I related to this story because I was also a gifted young pianist and wanted to pursue my dream and my own father, very domineering and brutal, was completely in opposition to it. Now, of course, I wasn't quite as prodigically gifted as David Helfgott, but it was still my dream. From a pianist's perspective, the movie is so accurate and hits the nail on the headthe challenges that David faces are faced by all of us. And for those who have seen the film, YES the Rachmaninov 3rd concerto IS that difficult!
KSP February Newsletter 2004 pianist david helfgott will pay a nostalgic visit to KSP on Tuesday February 17th to run his famous fingers over the keys of one of his favourite pianos. http://kspf.iinet.net.au/february1.html
Extractions: The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre 11 Old York Road Greenmount WA Phone/Fax: (08) 9294 1872 Email: kspf@iin e t.net.au Website: http://kspf.iinet.net.au/ Chairpersons Message Thanks to Margot Lowe News from the Centre Helfgott Visit Special Events in February Old and New Computers KSP Author Virtual Writing Groups Summer Write-a-Ramas Past Tense Ramona Janssen Having just come back from two week's complete break, I am again struck by the abundance of activities with which our Centre will be engaged in the coming year. There are many highlights, but we are kicking things off in February with two acknowledged names in Australian Arts: first, Robyn Rowlands (who holds the Order of Australia), a great poet and activist for womens' health issues; and second, as our Established Writer In Residence, the renowned playwright, Timothy Daly. Robyn's poem about leaving a place of origin, the gift of leaving, is one of my favourites. The themes of loss, of longing, of a visceral connectedness to landscape, resonate deeply with me. She is holding our Fringe Festival workshop at KSP
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Extractions: This all started with a "Consumer Guide" I wrote for the Village Voice, New York's big alternative weekly. I listened to 17 recordings of this suddenly popular concerto, and wrote 17 quick paragraphs, with a grade attached to each one. Poor David Helfgott got an F; Vladimir Horowitz got an A, for his version with Fritz Reiner conducting. (Though a later Horowitz release, a live performance with Eugene Ormandy, only got C+.) You can read this adventure, right here on this site. Much later and by a happy coincidence I was asked to write about the concerto once again, this time for the Los Angeles Times. In fact, I was asked to defend it against critical attacks, which I was happy to do. The more I listened to it, for my Voice consumer guide, the more I loved it. And I enlisted two very articulate pianists to help me defend it Alexander Toradze, and Byron Janis. This piece, too, is available here But you want to hear the music my comparisons of six pianists playing the same Rach 3 excerpt. Click the RA icons below to hear the pianist of your choice, and if you have RealAudio 3.0 or higher installed on your computer you'll hear the excerpts "streaming" down the Internet in real time.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal Shine, the Australian movie about pianist david helfgott s triumph over abuseand mental illness, has been nominated for an armful of Academy Awards. http://www.salonmagazine.com/march97/news/news970318.html
Extractions: are the critics trashing him? BY DOUGLAS McLENNAN classical music has a new star. "Shine," the Australian movie about pianist David Helfgott's triumph over abuse and mental illness, has been nominated for an armful of Academy Awards. Helfgott's recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto has surged to the top of the classical charts and cracked the pop charts in Britain. Tickets for his hastily arranged American tour, which began two weeks ago in Boston, sold out in hours. Helfgott is the biggest thing to hit classical music since the Three Tenors. You'd think music critics would be happy. These are, after all, the same critics who have been complaining that their art form is dying with the public. But they are about as excited as they were over the spectacle of Domingo, Pavarotti and Carreras cavorting in fan-filled baseball stadiums. One critic called Helfgott-mania a "new low" and "a significant new step in the dumbing of America." Another declined even to see the film, declaring that any movie making an icon out of something so unworthy as a Rachmaninoff concerto is not worth his time. Most reviews of Helfgott's recording have been dismissive, if not scornful, and there has been speculation about whether the mentally ill celebrity is being exploited by those eager to cash in on the success of "Shine."
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