Shine @ Filmbug This tearjerker by Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks is a surprising story aboutreallife classical pianist david helfgott, an Australian who rose to http://www.filmbug.com/asin/0780619587
Extractions: About Shine 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 ( Flirting ), who takes up the character's teen years, and Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, giving a great performance playing the musician as a schizophrenic adult. Despite the Helfgotts' compromised psychological health
Movie Review: Shine Shine Kristen E., Scituate, MA. The movie Shine, the story of pianist david helfgott,entrances its viewer from beginning to end without having to rely on http://www.teenink.com/Past/1997/8144.html
Extractions: The movie "Shine," the story of pianist David Helfgott, entrances its viewer from beginning to end without having to rely on spectacular explosions or over-muscled superheroes. Instead, it narrates the story of Helfgott from his childhood through middle age in a subtle, yet telling way. Helfgott is portrayed superbly by Golden Globe winner Geoffrey Rush, who is able to capture the emotions of the prodigy and endear him to the viewer in a subtle, unassuming way.
Pantagraph.com - Craft's Movie Review: "Shine" This uplifting but uncloying Australianmade account of the life and times ofreal-life classical pianist david helfgott has been structured along the http://www.pantagraph.com/ent/movies/reviews/shine.html
Extractions: "Shine" is a sort of triumph-of-the-fractured-spirit drama about what happens when artistic genius and dysfunctional upbringing collide head-on, sending the genius part of the artist's psyche twirling off into its own privately dysfunctional orbit. That would be, of course, madness not an uncommon realm for genius to visit from time to time. Although film portraits of artists as troubled young men are a fairly common breed, "Shine" is something else again. This uplifting but uncloying Australian-made account of the life and times of real-life classical pianist David Helfgott has been structured along the compositional lines of the concertos favored by its artist. Meaning: varying movements of different tempos and rhythms, recurring leitmotifs, repeated refrains, periodic crescendos and virtuoso solo work against an orchestral background. The three movements of Mr. Helfgott's opus are divided between his early childhood in the 1950s, his adolescence and young manhood in the '60s and '70s, and, finally, his middle-aged mental dysfunction of the early 1980s.
The Michigan Daily Online By Kelly Xintaris Daily TV / New Media Editor Shine is an Australian importbased on the life of classical pianist david helfgott, a man blessed with http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/jan/01-22-97/arts/arts4.html
Extractions: Daily TV / New Media Editor "Shine" is an Australian import based on the life of classical pianist David Helfgott, a man blessed with prodigious musical talent, but cursed by the pressures of an over-zealous father (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Newcomer and prime Oscar-candidate Geoffrey Rush plays Helfgott, who first appears scampering through the rain toward a small cafe, seemingly euphoric. Looking haggard and acting hyperactive, Rush demands attention from the opening scene, ending his staccato outbursts with, "Oh yes, the tragedy of it all, the tragedy." Rush's performance rightfully deserves praise, as he comfortably fills the shoes of a man who suffers and succeeds because of his obsessive relationship with music. In a refreshingly different move, director Scott Hicks ("Strictly Ballroom") then cuts to flashbacks of Helfgott's childhood and troubled adolescence. Most of the film centers on Helfgott's growing years, which send him spiralling toward a nervous breakdown. Under the reign of an overprotective, controlling father who was traumatized by the Holocaust, young David (Alex Rafalowicz) grows into a fragile, socially overwhelmed teen-ager (Noah Taylor). Rafalowicz is adorable and convincing in the role of little Helfgott, a boy who never knew the release of a free-wheeling childhood because he was too busy fulfilling his father's expectations. By the time Rafalowicz passes the baton to Taylor, some sort of catastrophe seems imminent. For audiences who like a little unpredictability with their dramatic tension, "Shine" may not seem as brilliant as the hype surrounding the film would have you believe. Yes, this is one of 1996's brighter cinematic offerings, but no, it is not the Hope Diamond of bio-dramas.
Coffs Harbour City Council - Past Productions ****. david helfgott and Friends. A onenight-only fund-raising performance byworld famous pianist david helfgott was sold out days before the 6 March show. http://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/www/default.asp?casid=1195
'Shine' Pianist's Boston Debut Not Unanimously Acclaimed: 3/6/97 Associated Press writer BOSTON Finally reaching a US concert stage, pianistDavid helfgott hummed and talked to himself as he played Chopin and Liszt. http://www.s-t.com/daily/03-97/03-06-97/b03ae099.htm
Extractions: The performance, Mr. Dyer continued, "was without phrasing, form, harmonic understanding, differentiation of style, and often basic accuracy; worst of all, it was without emotional content. ... The sad fact is that David Helfgott should not have been in Symphony Hall last night, and neither should the rest of us."
Ae.soundbites That movie is called Shine. Its focus on the hardships facing the talented concertpianist, david helfgott, comes supported by soulful piano pieces which http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/DB/issues/97/01.13/ae.soundbites.html
Extractions: Brian Remick A- David Helfgott "David Helfgott plays Rachmaninov" (BMG) There is a movie playing in theaters across the country that will drain the tear ducts and leave the mind paralyzed. That movie is called "Shine." Its focus on the hardships facing the talented concert pianist, David Helfgott, comes supported by soulful piano pieces which help to create an emotional setting just tender enough to tear down the boundaries between film viewer and movie screen. Capturing this mood, Helfgott's recent release calms the body while enchanting the mind. Though not all of the Rachmaninov pieces make appearances in the film, they certainly echo its sense of tragedy and personal triumph. The music can be appreciated by those who haven't even seen or heard of the film. Starting with the swiftly uplifting "Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30, in D minor," and moving into "Four Preludes," a mass of twittering notes lighter than air, it becomes clear that Rachmaninov never gets boring. "Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 36" provides a clear insight into the frailty of dancing fingers and what a life of such focus can lead to. Helfgott reveals that the vocation of concert pianist almost invariably will end in madness, as sounds this mystic must transfix one to a world unlike our own, and leaves one to question how other musicians of this caliber stay sane. Vanessa VanderZanden A Art of Noise "The Drum and Bass Collection" (Discovery) Classic songs like AON's collaboration with Tom Jones on Prince's "Kiss" have been transformed into uninteresting beats that lack any originality. Flyright's mix of "Peter Gunn," which is almost impossible to get wrong, doesn't even have the same tune. "The Drum and Bass Collection" doesn't go much beyond its title for the majority of the album. The original structure of songs like "Something Always Happens" and "Yebo" are all but gone. While the mixes on the album are decent, especially ILS's rendition of "Art of Love" and J. Majik's "Camilla," their similarities to the originals are so faint that they practically don't belong on the album.
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Movie Reviews By Mark Leeper The man is eccentric to the point of being nearly autistic but is also a brilliantpianist. david helfgott is a man with many personal demons, some real and http://www.eclectica.org/v1n3n4/leeper6.html
Extractions: There are some minor spoilers in the plot description. SHINE is a true story, a biography of a sort of local celebrity in Australia. The man is eccentric to the point of being nearly autistic but is also a brilliant pianist. David Helfgott is a man with many personal demons, some real and some imagined, who was a musical prodigy but could not face the pressures that a musical career placed on him. The greatest of all the pressures came from his father, a man of huge rages who wanted to control David like he would control a puppet. What is interesting in the film is the affect that music has on David. As a boy music is a negative influence on him, dragging him down into the strange psychological state he eventually reaches. He is eventually even forbidden to play the piano for fear of the effect it will have on him. Yet the same music is also what pulls him out of that slump, returning some semblance of a life and even a career to him. Also remarkable is how people seem to keep finding David endearing. In spite of his many problems and the infinite patience that is required for dealing with him, the adult David seems to have the charm somehow to attract admirers and people who are willing to care for him. The adult David strikes one as having an intelligent, but uncontrolled mind. He talks as fast as his fingers move playing the Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto, but he jumps from idea to idea and drops each for the next.
Shine (1996) Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist Davidhelfgott, Shine focuses on helfgott s painful retreat into a private world http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/shine/
Extractions: Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott, Shine focuses on Helfgott's painful retreat into a private world while still in his early 20's and on the brink of a glittering international career. Spanning the 1950's to the 1980's, Shine dramatizes the deeply moving way in which Helfgott, after a decade of obscurity, achieves both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of a remarkable woman. (Fine Line Features)
Shine (1996) Genre Drama / Romance / Music (more) Plot Outline pianist DavidHelfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117631/
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Helfgott Shines In Horsham » ABC Western Victoria More than 850 people came from across Western Victoria to hear a performance by pianistDavid helfgott The crowds flocked to Horsham Town Hall as the man whose http://www.abc.net.au/westernvic/stories/s575329.htm
Extractions: he globally acclaimed, Academy Award-winning film Shine made pianist David Helfgott a household name. While purporting to be a true story, the movie is actually full of fabrications. Now for the first time, Margaret, David Helfgott's eldest sister, who knows him better than anyone from their early years, sets the record straight. Dispelling the many untruths propagated by the movie, Margaret tells the real story of her extraordinary brother, of a life, a career, and a legacy that will remain forever.. .Out Of Tune Shine was made without any significant participation from family members other than David and his wife, Gillian. Its portrayal of a repressed young piano prodigy brutalized by a violent, obsessive father is a graphic, lasting image, but one that isn't true. Gillian (who never even met David's father, Peter) wrote a bestselling book, Love You to Bits and Pieces , that reinforced the distortions.
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Extractions: Shine chronicles the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott, focusing on Helfgott's painful retreat into a private world while still in his early 20's and on the brink of a career of international acclaim. Spanning the 1950's to the 1980's, Shine dramatizes Helfgott's achievement, after a decade of obscurity, of both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of a remarkable woman. The Austrailian film employs an impressionistic musical structure to counterpoint past and present. Joining Geoffrey Rush as the adult Helfgott is an ensemble cast that includes Armin Mueller-Stahl ( Avalon, The Music Box ) as his obsessive and possessive father, Noah Taylor ( Flirting, The Year My Voice Broke ) as the adolescent Helfgott, Lynn Redgrave as the woman who marries him and helps him back from emotional breakdown, and John Gielgud as his music professor in London. Scott Hicks directed. "This is a story that has fascinated me for years," Hicks says, "...a story about a winner, an unlikely hero who achieves the one thing we all desire: he finds his own place in the world, and someone with whom to share life, love, and music. His story is very uplifting and compelling." Hicks stresses that, "David's music is one thing; David's story is another. It touches people because they recognize that clearly it is about redemption. It's about being able to survive experiences that none of us would want and to come out on the other side–in love, loved, and playing music to audiences."
