“I think we saved the best ’til last,” said Flagler Museum Director John Blades, at intermission of the Miró String Quartet’s concert Tuesday night, the final one of the season in the Flagler’s music series. They had just played Franz Schubert’s Quartettsatz and the third Rasumovsky Quartet of Beethoven (Op. 59, No. 3, in C) and were impressive. Sentiment ran high at the end … [Read more...]
‘John Carter’ grinds good premise into shameless mediocrity
The very idea of a Confederate cavalryman transported, in the blink of an eye, to Mars is an idea so juicy it sounds impossible to muck up. The potential is there for both epic, Tolkeinian sweep and confrontational social commentary. Just imagine what a director like Samuel Fuller would do with this material, with his bigoted Civil War straggler finding an all-new batch of … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: A quality ‘Spider Woman’; ‘Frankenstein’ well-cast but weak
West Boca’s Slow Burn Theatre Co. has carved out a niche for itself that no other area stage troupe seems interested in filling. Its stated mission is to tackle “daring, contemporary and intelligent” musicals, which certainly describes its current production of Kiss of the Spider Woman. This odd-couple tale of Molina, a gay window dresser, and Valentin, a macho freedom … [Read more...]
The View From Home 7: New releases on DVD
Stagecoach (Criterion) Release date: May 25 Standard list price: $30.99 As the legend goes, John Ford’s Stagecoach established the Western as an A picture, reviving it from its creatively moribund inception as disposable, one-dimensional nickelodeon fare and elevating it to the lofty standards of Whitmanesque poetry and pre-Wellesian compositional virtuosity that all of our … [Read more...]