17 December 2009

Not the Nutcracker

By now many of you will have seen the film from which this marvelous image is plucked — a mash-up of mesdemoiselles pounding the floorboards in Frederick Wiseman’s ballet documentary "LA DANSE." 

They’re Paris Opera Ballet dancers hoofing it in Rudolph Nureyev’s version of Tchaikowsky’s "Casse-Noisette" or "The Nutcracker." 

It’s my favorite scene in the movie. You gotta see [...]

10 November 2009

“La Danse” discount tix

Discount ticket coupon for “La Danse” from Laemmle Theaters [...]

28 October 2009

Frederick Wiseman’s love letter to ballet

Wiseman’s 38th film, “La Danse,” about Paris Opera Ballet, caps a long and distinguished career as the dean of the most uncompromising form of documentary filmmaking, direct cinema. [...]