Wagner and Me
well done, a true learning experience
Patrick McGrady
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Wagner and Me
English actor and raconteur Stephen Fry explores his passion for history’s most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. Can he salvage Wagner’s music from its association with Hitler? Animated by Fry’s trademark wit and intelligence and set against the backdrop of Germany's annual Bayreuth...Watch Movie
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Wagner and Me
I found this quite tedious and intellectually shallow. Not a documentary, not a scholarly probing, just a fan interviewing some people and prowling around Wagner's former stomping grounds.
Wagner and Me
Wagner and Me, Stephen Fry's BBC produced meditation on his conflicted obsession (he's Jewish after all) with all things Wagner. Suitably fabulous, appropriately balanced, in the end superb.
Wagner and Me
Here's some other eerie paradoxes: 1)The German man who directed a film about The Dreyfus Affair ( 1939's"The Life of Emile Zola") directed an early biographical film about Wagner (1955's...
Wagner and Me
now I get it! Wagner was like the Deep Purple of his day! only kidding