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Bear and gramophone
Grammy
In their estimates, the next Grammy Award ceremony was surprisingly unanimous. This year the prize did not present any surprises, everything was quite expected and predictable.
The name of Mikhail Gorbachev is beaten in all ways in the headlines in all ways: the first president of the USSR, it seems, without expecting it, received a gold gramophore. In the company, along with Sophie Loren and Bill Clinton, he took part in the record "Petya and the Wolf" of Jean-Pascal Baintus. In the nomination "Best Children's Audioskal", both the Russian National Orchestra and Kent Nagano, the conductor of Nagano, were awarded, and, presumably, Sergey Prokofiev. Boris Barabanov in Kommersant, not without causticity, reflects whether they will give Clinton the Golden Gramophone, and the article in Komsomolskaya Pravda is simply devoted to Gorbachev, the other laureates are not mentioned in it at all.
For obvious reasons, Rinat Arkhipov (“Russian Newspaper”) begins with Russian winners: in the “classical” nomination , one of the prizes went to Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Vengerov - for recording the violin concert of Britten and the Altov Concert of Walton. Observers of the "News Time" Julia Bederova and Alexander Belyaev in a detailed report on the results of the ceremony commented on this award:
"It is curious that in the struggle for Grammy Rostropovich competed with himself. And it is a little sorry that the frankly flirty art of Vengerov fell in love with the premium jury more secretive interpretations of Mikhail Pletnev - among the nominees of the concerts of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev with the participation of Rostropovich and Pletnev was listed."
While Rostropovich himself in an interview with Izvestia says the following:
“I came to the conclusion that the Britten’s concert is one of the greatest concerts for the violin. In terms of artistic qualities, he is equal to Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Brahms. And above this level I don’t know anything. The Britten’s concert ends with such a piercing monologue of the violin that I pay like a child and then the violinist of Wengerov played the altov concert of Walton, and we are ending. Successfully finished the recording of our CD.
This year at the Grammy ceremony was recognized as critics by the year of R'N'B - a record number of nominations in this style attracted the attention of all musical critics.
“Given the five prizes of Beyons, four venues and three pieces for hip-hopper from Outkast, there is a clear domination of black music at this academic ceremony. As well as the R&B triumph, the modern version of the good old rhythm-n-Blue,” write Ilya Ovchinnikov and Alexander Zaitsev (Gazeta).
The victories of the vocalists of Beyoncé Noules and Luther Vandros (in particular their joint victory in the nomination "Best R'n'B 'Duet") caused critics unanimous approval. And about the best debutant, opinions dispersed:
"Everyone thought that the best debutant would be recognized by the rapperer and the former criminal element 50 Cent, but the gramophone was allocated to Metalists from Evanescensce, led by a magnificent Gothic beauty," this is just a "newspaper."
"The opening of the year was named the American group of EvanesCens, playing Gothic rock. This should have expected - almost the whole last year their recording label actively (even too actively) promoted this young group from Arkansas," and this is the Russian newspaper.
Otherwise, there are practically no discrepancies. All "posthumous" awards (George Harrison, spouses June Carter Kash and John Cash and the entire group The Beatles), a prize for the best jazz album, handed over to Wayne Shorter and Michael Brerer (great masters of friendly creative projects), as well as the victory of Howard Shor - the author Rings "did not cause complaints.
The newspapers did not forget to mention the fact that the ceremony was broadcast by the CBS channel with a five -minute delay - if the main heroine of the fresh scandal - Justin Timberlake - was removed from participation in the ceremony - there was no time for the best male pop vulp. And here we gracefully move on to the next topic of the week.
Berlinale
The common truth is that one of the most win -win PR, - a demonstration of the body usually hidden under the clothes - received confirmation not only in the case of Janet Jackson. If you believe our newspapers, perhaps the main subject of discussion at the Berlin Film Festival - H ass of Jack Nicholson. Some of the newspaper area, so to speak, is given to it by Izvestia , Russian Newspaper , and NG . Moreover, Ekaterina Barabash from NG makes the back of Nicholson (it certainly cannot be expressed) the leitmotif of her Berlin publications, the starting point for reasoning about the fate of Russian cinema:
"Nicholson is good, he has something to be proud of. But we were very lousy. And why - we watched our film selected in the" Panorama ". The young clip makers Olga Stolovskaya and Dmitry Troitsky (the latter, by the way, were known in Berlin as the producer of our well -known reality show on TNT, which is already removed, there is no strength to suffer. Regarding our annual shame on Berlinal, only one thing - to look into the eyes of the person whose, obviously, the temperature nonsense gave birth to a thought to bring this. "
"The amazing monstrous Trees" calls the above film "I love you" Oliver Raiter ("Gazeta.ru"), temporarily refrained from the comments by Yuri Gladilshchikov ("Izvestia").
The most strict and scales in the arrangement of accents Alexei Medvedev ("News Time"). In an article with the explanatory name " Banal Competition ", he refuses to describe the festival party (atmosphere, conjuncture, etc.) in favor of the actual cinema:
"..." Samaritan "Korean Kim Ki-Duka and" before sunset "by American Richard Linkleter, the last premieres of the Berlin competitive program, which your observer has to watch for duty. These films would not be incomparable with masterpieces from a retrospective, by the way, not so shot on another planet, where stupidity is, where stupidity is stupid, where stupidity is, where stupidity is, where stupidity is, where stupidity is, where stupidity is stupid. Infantilism and depressing mediocrity are a respectable norm.
But this is not a crisis of cinema, it is a crisis of the festival movement. Once again, one of the three leading European festivals in their own example and at the cost of their own reputation proved that to collect more than twenty decent, one hundred percent "copyright" films, if not, is very, very difficult. "
The tone of other film critics is gloomy, and if Andrei Plakhov (" Kommersant ") " comforts the very fact that radical art films are trying to compete in the Berlinal contest with the Hollywood mainstream", then Anton Dolin ("Gazeta") gloomily notes:
"Berlinale is working on his reputation as the most politicized film festival of the world. Last year, paintings on the heavy fate of refugees prevailed here, and now films dedicated to interracial contacts and conflicts rule the ball."
One thing is pleasing - whatever the festival, among the came celebrities there are always interesting interlocutors. Therefore, read the interview: Renee Zeleveger , Peter Greenae and Christopher Doyle - the "newspaper"; Juliet Binosh and Tim Rot - "NG"; John Burmen , Anthony Mingella and Sandrin Bonner - Izvestia.