Hope you enjoyed Mr. Smith Goes to Washington last night - remember the finale for Cinema Tuesdays changes location next week - At the Death House Door will be at 7pm at Santikos Palladium IMAX Theater - and will include a Q&A session with Rev. Carroll Pickett (seen left) afterwards. Suggested donations of $10 for members and $12 for non-members will get you in for these one-time only showings!To make reservations, call 614-8977, or 1-800-622-8977, during regular business hours. All proceeds from the Cinema Tuesdays series benefit Texas Public Radio.
In other cinema news, classical fans will want to note this new development about Gustav Mahler (pictured right) on the silver screen!Percy Adlon develops 'Mahler'
Film to be based on events, eyewitness accounts
By ELSA BERTET
"Bagdad Cafe's" director Percy Adlon has teamed up with his son Felix and wife Eleonore to develop "Mahler auf der Couch," a psychological drama about the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's life. Set in 1910, plot deals with the composer's tumultuous marital life with Alma and his ambivalent relationship with Sigmund Freud.
"This film is a real small drama, it's not what I call a brown period piece," said Percy Adlon, who wrote the film based on actual events, eyewitness accounts and Mahler's journal entries. "And hopefully people will experience this story in musical terms as if a contemporary composer had described it."
Adlon plans on shooting in Holland, Vienna and Munich for a 2010 release, in time for Mahler's 150th anniversary. Budgeted at 3.5 million euros, pic will be co-produced by Eleonore Adlons' shingle, Leora Films, and CultFilm. The Bavarian cast includes Barbara Romaner, Johannes Silberschneider and Karl Markovics. L.A. Philharmonic music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the film's music. The composer's life has already been depicted in Ken Russell's "Mahler," which earned a Bafta nod in 1975. Adlon is also presenting the director's cut, HD-restored version of "Bagdad Cafe" at the Cannes Market.
Read the full article at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986070.html
Adlon plans on shooting in Holland, Vienna and Munich for a 2010 release, in time for Mahler's 150th anniversary. Budgeted at 3.5 million euros, pic will be co-produced by Eleonore Adlons' shingle, Leora Films, and CultFilm. The Bavarian cast includes Barbara Romaner, Johannes Silberschneider and Karl Markovics. L.A. Philharmonic music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the film's music. The composer's life has already been depicted in Ken Russell's "Mahler," which earned a Bafta nod in 1975. Adlon is also presenting the director's cut, HD-restored version of "Bagdad Cafe" at the Cannes Market.
Read the full article at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986070.html