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Noah’s Ark (2016)

Noah’s Ark (2016)

by | Mar 4, 2016 | DVD & Blu-ray Video Reviews

Not the best Noah movie, but enjoyable nevertheless… Noah’s Ark (2016) Cast: David Thelfall, Joanne Whalley, Nico Mirallegro Director: Kenneth Glenaan Studio: Cinedigm GP5049 (2/2/16) Video: Enhanced for 16:9 1080i HD color Audio: Englsh DD stereo Length: 88 min. Rating: ***1/2 There are other Noah movies which may be better that this one but I haven’t seen them. It’s not as slavishly Biblical as one might expect, but there is little time spent on the actual flood. Much of the film contrates on the difficulties Noah has in convincing anyone that he has been told by God to build the ark and everybody that doesn’t come with him on the ark will be drowned. He doesn’t even get the asisstance of his four sons until the ark is nearly finished. His wife, however, helps him out though she (like almost everone else) think he is perfectly crazy. I kept waiting for the procession of the pairs of animals into the ark when the big rain finally comes, but we never get it. Only a quick shot of a silhouette of some of the animals on a hill at some distance, and then that’s it.  It’s basically the story of one […]

“Song of Songs” = DAVID LANG: Just; LUCIANO BERIO: Naturale; BETTY OLIVERO: En la mar hai una torre – Trio Mediaeval & others – Contemporary Music Society

“Song of Songs” = DAVID LANG: Just; LUCIANO BERIO: Naturale; BETTY OLIVERO: En la mar hai una torre – Trio Mediaeval & others – Contemporary Music Society

by | Jan 26, 2016 | Classical CD Reviews

“Song of Songs” = DAVID LANG: Just; LUCIANO BERIO: Naturale; BETTY OLIVERO: En la mar hai una torre – Trio Mediaeval/Garth Knox, viola/Agnes Vesterman, cello/Sylvain Lemetre, perc./Cliona Doris, harp – Louth Contemporary Music Society LCMS 1502 [Distr. by Allegro], 45:18, (10/02/15) ****: The Louth (Ireland) Contemporary Music Society has a growing reputation as one of Europe’s most innovative promoters of contemporary music. This disc is from an October, 2014 concert and shows the quality of the music showcased and of the featured performers; the Trio Mediaeval vocal ensemble and their guest soloists. David Lang remains one of America’s best known most and highly respected composers whose music is known for its tonal and beautiful center and very diverse and creative approaches to structure. The present Just is a fairly long and wholly captivating work that shows the purity of sound of Trio Mediaeval quite well. The text is taken from the Biblical “Song of Songs” of Solomon and breaks up the words into short, beautiful little phrases that force us to concentrate on the words. This wonderful work is also used in the recent film, Youth, starring Michael Caine and Rachel Weisz. The music of Luciano Berio is of a […]