Man of the Year was an incredible movie! Both Fort Atkinson and Dennis Bailey were amazing! Maybe thats what makes the movie so good.The great cast includes Fort Atkinson, Dennis Bailey, Cal Bartlett, Bill Brochtrup, Beth Broderick. The movie moves on like a dream and end leaving you wanting for more.
If you love watching Fort Atkinson or Dennis Bailey, you are deffinetly going to want to watch Man of the Year.
This "mocumentary" by Dirk Shafer, an actor-model turned filmmaker, is a witty and articulate blend of fact and fiction surrounding his 1992 reign as Playgirl magazine's Centerfold of the Year. He amusingly blurs the line between fact and satire by mixing badly shot black-and-white scenes with more sleekly produced color interviews and documentary footage. Shafer smartly keeps the fluff to a manageable level by balancing all that facetious humor with a sweetly mysterious undertone. However, this is very much a vanity affair, so expect a high level of self-indulgence as Shafer tells us more about himself than we really care to know. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Wagner - Die Walkure / Hofmann, Altmeyer, McIntyre, Jones, Salminen, Schwarz, Boulez, Bayreuth Opera- It is a movie that everyone can enjoy together.This is something not usually seen in movies of this type, so it makes it an unusual, yet pleasant experience.The movie is absolutely stunning and Peter Hofmann (II) deliver some award-winning performances in this movie. I also think Matti Salminen was great!
I think Peter Hofmann (II) and Matti Salminen worked wonderful in Wagner - Die Walkure / Hofmann, Altmeyer, McIntyre, Jones, Salminen, Schwarz, Boulez, Bayreuth Opera. The great supporting cast includes Peter Hofmann (II), Matti Salminen, Elisabeth Glauser, Marga Schiml, Carmen Reppel.
You should see it, make no mistake this is a definite blockbuster!
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Summary of Wagner - Die Walkure / Hofmann, Altmeyer, McIntyre, Jones, Salminen, Schwarz, Boulez, Bayreuth Opera: Wagner's ideas of "racial purity" reach a logical conclusion in Act I of Die Walkre, powerfully performed in this Bayreuth production. Siegfried, the tragic hero of the cycle, is begotten in an adulterous, incestuous mating of Siegmund (Peter Hoffmann) and Sieglinde (Jeanne Altmeyer), a twin brother and sister. No miscegenation here.
Siegfried will not be seen until the next opera in the cycle. For now, the Valkyries (after their famous, musically spectacular ride) are asked to protect Sieglinde, his pregnant mother-to-be, until he can be born. His father is killed in a fight with Hunding, Sieglinde's brutish husband, with Wotan intervening against his will to help the wronged spouse. Wotan has been forced by his wife Fricka, who is the goddess of marriage, elegantly played by Hanna Schwartz. Her victory is a striking display of Wotan's diminishing powers. Brunnhilde, Wotan's daughter and leader of the Valkyries (Gwyneth Jones), disobeys a paternal prohibition, rescues Sieglinde and hides her in safety to wait out her pregnancy. For this, she is punished by losing her divine status and being left asleep for years, surrounded by a circle of magic fire, until a hero (Siegfried, who has not yet been born) will come to rescue her.
This episode is extremely well-sung, with particularly notable work by Hoffmann, Altmeyer, Schwartz, Jones and Donald McIntyre as Wotan, while conductor Pierre Boulez and director Patrice Chreau work smoothly together to define the opera's overall form and continuity. --Joe McLellan
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