The Cannes Film Festival has been careful to steer clear of Russian participation this year, barring “official Russian delegations” and “anyone linked to the Russian government” and also declining to ...
Leading Chinese film director Chen Kaige is poised to shoot historical epic “Swan Song” as his next feature movie. It will focus on 19th century classical music composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky through ...
Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The title Tchaikovsky’s Wife may suggest a biopic, but the words are more like a job description for the most thankless ...
You'd think Russia would welcome plans to produce the country's first major film about Pyotr Tchaikovsky. But Kirill Serebrennikov, a prominent Russian filmmaker, has said he's given up securing ...
It should have been obvious to the smitten Miliukova (Alyona Mikhailova) that Tchaikovsky, intriguingly played by Odin Lund Biron as a blimp haunted by demons, wasn’t exactly husband material. Shortly ...
To say that the great 19 th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s marriage to his wife, Antonina Miliukova, was a trainwreck is an understatement. It was more like a train suddenly ...
Back when art-house movies played full-time in art houses, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” at least on paper, might have seemed a film of middlebrow commercial hooks — the sort of movie that would have slipped ...
Tchaikovsky’s Wife filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov, a Russian dissident, was grilled, by the global press at Cannes over the pic being bankrolled by oligarch financing in particular Roman Abramovich, ...
With Ken Russell’s madly over-the-top The Music Lovers reassuringly tucked in dusty attic corners after 52 years, a fresh and notably inspired take on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s fraught marriage ...
More on this topic Subscribers only Russian Filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov: 'We were here before Putin, we hope to be here after' He has for a long time been interested in composer Pyotr Ilyich ...
Film scores should be treated as "serious" classical music, with modern composers doing a similar job as Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, a director of the Royal Albert Hall argues Natalie Wood and ...