Morris Robinson as the Commendatorein Florida Grand Opera’s Don Giovanni.Music: This weekend, Florida Grand Opera is running more like a repertory company than its normal mode of one show at one time. Its productions of David DiChiera’s Cyrano and Mozart’s Don Giovanni are running tomorrow and Sunday afternoon, respectively, at the Ziff Ballet Opera House in … [Read more...]
The View From Home 14: New releases on DVD
By John ThomasonMy Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (First Look)Standard list price: $18.99Release date: Sept. 14The Killer Inside Me (MPI)SLP: $13.99Release date: Sept. 28Two movies by major filmmakers exploring the minds of killers debuted on DVD recently, and the results are so divergent they might as well be filed under different categories in the … [Read more...]
The View From Home 4: New releases on DVD
The Italian Straw Hat (Flicker Alley)Release date: April 6Standard list price: $23.99In the movies and the theater, the institution of marriage is not often a melodious tradition, with infidelity and domestic strife serving as effective dramatic devices for more than a century. But day-to-day wedlock is downright harmonious compared to the ceremony leading up to it.Cinematic or … [Read more...]