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	The Kenneth Branagh Compendium: Magic Flute
		To be presented at the 28th Durban International Film Festival on 25 and 30 June 2007
		Presented at the Belfast Film Festival on Thursday 22 March 2007
		Presented at the Cine Alcazar in Barcelona on Wednesday 21 March 2007 with Kenneth Branagh in attendance See photos here.
	www.branaghcompendium.com /magicflute.html (219 words)

	DVD Times: Region 0 Reviews: The Magic Flute
		This side of the film is a blend of conventional heroics and (believe it or not) Masonic propaganda (both Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder were keen Freemasons), which is offset by ample comic relief provided by the bird-catcher Papageno (a wonderfully spry, cheeky Håkan Hagegård, who effortlessly steals the whole show).
		But apart from that, the film is the very incarnation of ecstasy, and anyone even vaguely interested in Mozart, Bergman, opera or great cinema in general should snap it up at once.
		Unsurprisingly for a 1974 made-for-TV film, it was originally released in mono - though it was actually recorded in stereo in advance of shooting, to enable the release of a tie-in soundtrack LP.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/other/magicflute.html (870 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Magic Flute (xhtml)
		His "Magic Flute" is directed with a cheerful relish for its fairy-tale adventures, its young lovers and sinister sorcerers and improbable special effects.
		To film it, he decided to stay in the period, to approach the work head on and in its own spirit as a sort of spooky, funny bedtime story.
		He pretends he's filming an actual performance there, with proscenium arch, footlights and an audience (the attentive little girl he cuts away to during scene changes is his own daughter).
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19760611/REVIEWS/606110301/1023 (609 words)

	The Magic Flute - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
		Countless dozens of Ph.D theses must be written about Mozart's The Magic Flute and yet it is so lively with elements of fantasy and free-flying imagination that it is often the first opera to which children are taken.
		It is lightened by such elements as locked lips, charmed animals, and, of course, a magic flute.
		Haydn had introduced Mozart to Freemasonry, and the opera is full of the ideas (the autonomy of the individual, self-determination, appalling sexism), the ideals (power, wisdom, beauty), and the symbols (aprons, hammers, compasses, a pyramid with an all-seeing eye) of the Masons.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/MagicFlute.html (930 words)

	european-films.net - review: The Magic Flute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The film is an epic telling of the tale heavily enhanced by CGI, which situates itself miles from the cute theatrical film adaptation of Ingmar Bergman, though bigger in this case is not necessarily better.
		The film's virtuoso opening sequence is a lengthy pan from the sun down towards the battlefields of WWI, through the trenches and beyond, to arrive at the army camps and pan back upwards the sky again, which is filled with fighter planes who appear from the clouds.
		At several points in the film, the characters also continue singing on the soundtrack while on screen they are silent, concentrating on their activities, another feat impossible to render during any live performance (and not something that entirely works here).
	european-films.net /content/view/382/57 (783 words)

	The Magic Flute
		Pamina decides to kill herself in her misery, but is prevented by the Three Boys who lead her to Tamino who is about to undergo his last and most dangerous trial, the Trial of Fire and Water.
		Mozart and Schikaneder, through "The Magic Flute", were actually trying to save the Freemasons by demonstrating to the public that the Freemasons (a.k.a.
		Info about the Freemasons and their relation to "The Magic Flute" was provided in an excerpt from Alfred Einstein's Mozart: His Character, His Work.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/2915/flute.html (1687 words)

	EUFS: The Magic Flute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story of The Magic Flute, is complex, and was originally written for Mozart by a Viennese theatre director and friend of Mozart's - Schikaneder.
		An objection often raised with films of operas is that they are not films per se, but are instead operas which happen to be recorded onto film.
		Particularly noteworthy is the famous aria in Act Two, when the Queen of the Night, a vision of fury and rage, sings of her terrifying despair and vengeance.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_magic_flute.html (283 words)

	asahi.com : In Sight/ Cinema & Arts: 'Magic Flute' even more magical on film - ENGLISH
		British director Kenneth Branagh's film "The Magic Flute"--based on Mozart's popular opera and performed by songbirds who usually strut their stuff in operas and musicals--opens with a peaceful scene in a grassland.
		The film also stirs up a feeling of solemnity when Sarastro and his people mourn the war victims in front of their names, which have been inscribed in different languages, including English, Japanese and Arabic.
		Branagh said that "The Magic Flute" has invited many interpretations over time because "it continues to reflect some light, some insight of a new nature on fundamental, universal human concerns." It addresses "the triumph of love over hatred, the triumph of light over dark, peace over war.
	mfeed.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200706220064.html (913 words)

	William Kentridge \| Greg Kucera Gallery
		I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures, and certain endings; an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism at bay.
		The film Procession was shown at the Prince Klaus Fund Awards in December 1999 in the Palace of the Queen of the Netherlands, Amsterdam on a screen which was the ceiling of the room, one hundred feet high.
		The artist has added extensive brush strokes of different grey watercolors to the areas around the circle and into the margins and the prints are fully worked to the edges of the paper.
	www.gregkucera.com /kentridge.htm (755 words)

	Film sets Mozart's Magic Flute in trenches of WWI
		VENICE (Reuters) - Mozart's "The Magic Flute" plays out amid the horrors of World War One in Kenneth Branagh's striking new film, which premieres later on Thursday in the canal city's famed Teatro La Fenice opera house.
		Papageno, the bird catcher, becomes the keeper of canaries used during the war to test for gas and the Queen of the Night's triumphant first appearance is astride a tank.
		The official premiere of the out-of-competition film takes place in the opulence of La Fenice, which opened in 1792, the year after "The Magic Flute" was first performed.
	movies.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=142574 (605 words)

	Film \| The Magic Flute
		Opera is stagey and static; film tries to look like real life.
		He takes Mozart's The Magic Flute off the stage (where it remained in Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film) and on to the killing fields of the first world war.
		But beneath the flashy transformations (the Queen's three ladies become sexy nun-nurses; the snake that threatens Tamino is a wisp of poison gas), it sticks pretty closely to the rococo plot.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329571604-110516,00.html (345 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Magic Flute, The
		Bergman wanted to shoot the film inside the celebrated Drottningholm Palace (in a royal park on the outskirts of Stockholm), but the scenery was considered too fragile to accommodate a film crew.
		Bergman insisted on the “playback” method, whereby all the music is prerecorded by the artists and orchestra, then replayed in segments in the film studio until the director is satisfied with both lip synchronization and acting performance.
		Like his own best films, it embodies a quest, and Sarastro, so often a grave and somber figure, is seen by Bergman as the paternal source of that exalted love sought in their different ways by Tamino and Papageno.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=71&eid=80§ion=essay (660 words)

	Toronto International Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"The Magic Flute" was one of his last compositions and it has found a special place in the hearts and minds of audiences.
		Highly popular in its day, it was intended to be enjoyed by the ordinary people: Mozart wrote in the vernacular German, his native tongue, rather than the conventional Italian, the language of virtually all opera at the time.
		The film features James Conlon conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a cast of rising young superstars including the Canadian tenor Joseph Kaiser, American baritone Benjamin Jay Davis and British soprano Amy Carson.
	www.e.bell.ca /filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=193 (497 words)

	Toronto Film Festival: Metamorphosis in Mozart´s scores :: www.rojname.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their films are being shown at the Toronto Film Festival, which ends Saturday, and at the Vienna festival in November, where the directors will be reunited.
		Tsai´s films are remarkable for their architecture: The River (1996) with the sensation of flooding water, was made more indoors than by the riverside; The Hole (1998) was shot in a claustrophobic apartment that becomes a site of drilling and deconstruction.
		Tsai´s films, famous for their long shots, are alive with things that happen in the dark: hands touching, bodies melding, sexual barriers broken between men, and between parent and child.
	www.rojname.com /index.kurd?nuce=130138 (1125 words)

	Film \| Branagh to put The Magic Flute on film
		Kenneth Branagh is to direct a film of The Magic Flute, with a libretto translated from the German by Stephen Fry.
		The opera - Mozart's fantastical tale of the triumph of lovers Tamino and Pamina against the evil Queen of the Night, complete with masonic overtones, pyramids, lethal serpents and a lustful Moor - will be set in the first world war.
		His dream of bringing opera to film audiences has been brewing for 15 years.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5324442-3156,00.html (272 words)

	Idéale Audience International : Kenneth Branagh's <i>The Magic Flute</i> to open its international career ...
		One of the world’s best-loved operas, in the hands of director Kenneth Branagh and librettist Stephen Fry, THE MAGIC FLUTE is a cinematic experience both epic in scale and visionary in its interpretation.
		On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.
		THE MAGIC FLUTE will be the tenth English language release from Celluloid Dreams, and reinforces their ongoing commitment to deliver a diverse portfolio of films to their international distribution partners.
	www.ideale-audience.com /site/the_magic_flute_to_start_shooting_in_january.488.0.html (1200 words)

	THE BACK ROW MANIFESTO by Tom Hall: The New Platforms
		Film critics will write about films getting a theatrical run, but hardly a mention is made of the film's simultaneous cable and DVD release.
		I can't believe it is, even by independent film standards, a commercial success that somehow transcends the income made on a traditional (theatrical, followed by DVD a few months later, followed by cable a few weeks later) roll out.
		Maybe individuals, downloading films for hours on end, gobbling up GB after GB of hard drive space, burning them onto a blank DVD and watching them on their computer, iPod/iPhone or television is the best way to deliver foreign and independent film to audiences isolated by the dearth of theatrical distribution for these films.
	blogs.indiewire.com /twhalliii/archives/012635.html (1037 words)

	"The Magic Flute" by I. M. Oderberg
		Perhaps it was intended to cause amusement, as a sort of counterpoint to the magic flute [pp.
		In other words, the moving effect of the opera as a whole is due to the magical blend of rich, philosophic ideas and Mozart’s music.
		That is when the real magic of understanding emerges within oneself: born in the heart, in the center of one’s being.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/mozart_a/TheMagicFlute.html (1604 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine
		Now, acclaimed director and actor Kenneth Branagh is to turn his hand to the masterpiece, directing a film of the opera, to be sung in English.
		On film, Ingmar Bergman’s vision (sung in Swedish) from the 1970s remains one of the indisputable classics in the opera-as-film catalogue.
		The initial success of The Magic Flute was partly due to its non-Italian libretto, which the entire German-speaking audience could therefore understand.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2215&newssectionID=1 (315 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Film - How She Move gets Sundance deal
		In the end, Paramount Pictures bought the independent film for a reported $3.4 million US, leaving director Ian Iqbal Rashid very pleased and very tired.
		Half was very young and funky and wanting an urban dance film and then the rest was very…Hollywood.
		I want my films to reach people and often with Canadian films that’s not a possibility.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/film/sundance_deal.html (2056 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Film sets Mozart's "Magic Flute" in trenches of WWI
		Director Kenneth Branagh arrives for a news conference to introduce his film "The Magic Flute" at the Venice Film Festival, September 7, 2006.
		Papageno, the bird catcher, becomes the keeper of canaries used during the war to test for gas and the Queen of the Night's triumphant first appearance is astride a tank.
		The official premiere of the out-of-competition film takes place in the opulence of La Fenice, which opened in 1792, the year after "The Magic Flute" was first performed.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1324582006 (822 words)

	[No title]
		In this first new production of The Magic Flute by WNO in 26 years, the atmosphere, while paying due attention to the solemn themes of honesty, duty, courage and love, is lightened warmly by its Magritte-inspired appearance.
		This elegant instrumental duo, with DL on harp and Nancy on flute, does not play classical, but instead specializes in original, contemporary new-age music – flavored with Latin, jazz, classical and Celtic influences – as well as traditional and easy-listening favorites.
		The harp and flute are both uniquely outfitted with electric pick-ups, and appropriately amplified, so regardless of venue size and ambient noise levels, it remains the perfect choice for indoor or outdoor events.
	www.lycos.com /info/flute--magic-flute.html (491 words)

	Amazon.com: The Magic Flute - Criterion Collection: DVD: Jerker Arvidson,Jane Darling,Helene Friberg,Nina ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ingmar Bergman's vision of The Magic Flute (sung here in Swedish) remains one of the indisputable classics in the opera-as-film catalog, its charm and enchantment undiminished since the film's initial release in the 1970s.
		Instead of simply filming a staged run-through of the opera, Bergman chooses to play with the framework around such a performance (given in Stockholm's elegant Drottningholm Theatre)--and he moreover rearranges the order of the scenes in the final act.
		He exploits the wonderful charm of eighteenth century stagecraft and fosters the illusion that we are indeed witnessing a repertory traversal of "The Magic Flute" in a public venue.
	www.amazon.com /Magic-Flute-Criterion-Collection/dp/0780023080 (1970 words)

	The Magic Flute Film Premiere
		Classic FM Music Makers are delighted to be the nominated charity for the premiere of Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute, and would like you to join us, Kenneth Branagh and friends on the red carpet for this very special evening.
		Mozart’s classic opera The Magic Flute is breathtakingly transformed in a spectacular new film version conceived and directed by Kenneth Branagh with a newly-adapted English language libretto by Stephen Fry.
		The Magic Flute is distributed and brought to you in association with Revolver Entertainment
	www.classicfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=492441&spid= (470 words)

	Opera Film and DVD Reviews: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) 1991
		With all of the gadgetry available, it is reassuring to see the kind of "special effects" that were available in Mozart's day still in use centuries later.
		The on-stage use of the "magic" flute and the spell-inducing bells has both musical and dramatic importance.
		Disappointing then to see Tamino attempt to play very little, but, instead, be directed to hold his instrument up like a magic wand.
	www.jamesweggreview.org /reviews/filmdvdvideo/die_zauberflote.html (701 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		In addition to all the benefits of a dual Film Society membership, YFF members receive one pair of complimentary tickets per month to select Walter Reade Theater series as well as invitations to sneak preview screenings of new films.
		Full of grand Almodovar visual touches, the film ultimately becomes very romantic in spirit, as Paredes slowly relearns the joys of life.
		With tremendous style and wit, film clips are coupled with interviews with Susan Sarandon, Tony Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Shirley Maclaine, Tom Hanks et al.
	www.filmlinc.com /wrt/yff/yff.htm (255 words)

	The Magic Flute (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anna Gottlieb, the soprano who sang the role of Pamina in the original production, was 17; at 12 she had sung a major role in Mozart's earlier opera "The Marriage of Figaro".
		It's at once humorous and disturbing, and (with it's digital gloss) indicates his intentions for the rest of the film.
		The film uses opera singers miming to their own studio recording.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0475331 (449 words)

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