Showgirls And Bruckner
(Self Writ, Art, High Germany, Music, Videos)I may have seen the flawed masterpiece Showgirls at one time, if so I barely remember, since the dialogue and plot was kind of boring. Best to concentrate on the visuals. However, I came across some interesting sets of images relating to the subject:
Still… the ever-present problem of cinematic art remains: why is it that the US and British industries have been purposefully degenerating and rarely can offer work of the least integrity, whereas the Europeans, no matter how dull many films, with exceeding longuers, still manage to present attempts at the Higher Art ? I never really saw many British films that weren’t stilted or embarrassing; and few American films since 1939 that weren’t tiresome or infected with gross sentimentality. Anglo arthouse films are generally of a liberal bias, faulted with the propagandist intent of the dedicated didactic..
Here are excerpts from a 1995 film called Bruckner’s Decision, from Pars Media [ The dramatization of a severe professional and personal crisis in the life of Anton Bruckner, who has to make the most important decision he will ever make: whether to stay in his hometown of Linz as a teacher and organist or go to Vienna to work as a composer ], the first is included for completeness, yet even there the music redeems the longuers…
And I’ve just realised that Linz’s most famous son no doubt had his passion for Bruckner enhanced by hometown pride.
