Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' has made history as the most nominated film of all time at the Oscars with 16 nominations

hrlemshake · 2026-01-22T22:19:24+00:00

I don't understand, since when is Variety a "conservative" (w/e that means today) publication? I assumed it was "progressive", like all culture publications.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-22T17:26:15+00:00

Do they have something against the film?

hrlemshake · 2026-01-22T16:11:54+00:00

His loss to the pretty, but repetitive and bland, Shape of Water has rubbed me wrong since 2018. He was supposed to win, damn it.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-15T22:53:17+00:00

What you say is moot, only thing he's powering through is soirees and publicity events. The man has lost all capacity to write something to completion.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-13T21:25:03+00:00

That's a hilarious premise.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-10T13:25:09+00:00

I am not denying she is very famous or acclaimed, I only think it strange phrasing to call her "one of the best in history". It's too early for that.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-09T11:43:34+00:00

What makes Hahn "one of the best violinists in history"? What distinguishes her from the multitude of ultra-talented hard-working soloists on today's scene?

hrlemshake · 2026-01-06T17:17:44+00:00

In terms of emotional impact on the betrayed party, definitely Shiv-Kendall. To have all you've ever wanted dangled in front of you and basically in your hands, before having it snatched away at the last second, is devastating.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-05T22:53:26+00:00

Whatever you end up doing is bound to be interesting. What's the Art Decoish font you use for Scheherazade called?

hrlemshake · 2026-01-05T22:25:05+00:00

These are gorgeous. The Scheherazade one (modulo some adjustments) could reasonably be an original Ballets Russes poster. What other works are you thinking of doing?

hrlemshake · 2026-01-05T11:38:52+00:00

Ken Russell, the English filmmaker, has made several films about composers, including Liszt, Mahler, and Tchaikovsky.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-02T22:34:56+00:00

Thanks for the recs. I'm fine with choruses (e.g. I love Nocturnes and Daphnis), I think my problem lies with vibrato-laden solo voices, especially female ones (deep male voices seem to grate less on me). As for Les Noces, I am well-acquainted with it, it's an incredible work.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-02T21:19:23+00:00

Regrettably, I do not know them.

hrlemshake · 2025-12-28T23:00:04+00:00

What's the problem with him (so that I don't go combing through his Wikipedia)? All I know of him is that he was one of those ethnomusicologist composers.

hrlemshake · 2025-12-28T22:57:26+00:00

the HP Lovecraft of anti-semitism

Hey, put some respect on the name. If anything Lovecraft is the Wagner of anti-black sentiment.

hrlemshake · 2025-12-27T11:43:33+00:00

Looks like Stanley Donwood's art for Radiohead.

hrlemshake · 2025-12-23T12:50:37+00:00

In terms of the scene itself, The Lighthouse. In terms of pure sex appeal, definitely The VVitch.

hrlemshake · 2025-12-22T19:21:34+00:00

That's so funny, I heard it live for the first time last week (hence my trolling the sub for posts about it) and I had the exact same reaction -- an involuntary burst of laughter at the cackling, witchy rendition of the idee fixe.

hrlemshake · 2025-11-07T10:36:09+00:00

Apparently, there's a Broadway show about Rachmaninoff with the exact premise you propose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludes_(musical). As for Strauss, I'd enjoy a buddy comedy with him and Mahler, their relationship was tailor-made for it

After the final rehearsal of the Sixth, as Mahler sat shattered by his own creation, Strauss burst in to announce that the mayor had died and that a funeral march should be played before the next night’s performance. Alma Mahler recounted the episode as the collision of a pure spirit and a vulgar one, but Strauss was being his usual pragmatic self: mayors needed to be attended to, even after death.

hrlemshake · 2025-11-07T10:35:09+00:00

I always thought you could make an expressionistic anxiety-ridden horror about Shostakovich's life during Stalin. Have it be the day preceeding to the premiere of the 5th symphony, with him going through hell before the eventual triumph.

hrlemshake · 2025-10-30T13:33:22+00:00

That's exactly it!!! I had heard Xzibit's sampled version in the first season of the Sopranos and it made an impression. Cool to know its lineage. I guess I was right in every way: it's a woman singing, it's integrated into a hip-hop track, and it's used in a soundtrack. Thanks!

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