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Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo (1983)
Ghiaurov, Freni, Furlanetto, Bumbry...Wow
The best singing of Verdi's most introspective and complex score. This video should be a requisite for any and all collections. Act III (perhaps Verdi's best) would merit a graduate seminar review on its own virtues. Freni gives a riveting rendition of "Tu che ne vanita...", and the duet between Filipo and The Inquisitor is appropriately earth shaking. For being a filmed stage performance, the videography and performances are acutely intimate, with a number of interesting angles and close-ups. Despite the inconclusive ending, this is one of the high points of western musical theater, and is under appreciated outside of hard-core opera circles. An absolute 10.
Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
super saver budgets-r-us!!!
The final word in low cost production values - this 'film' is extraordinarily utilitarian in every aspect, from sets (an industrial park wharf) to the community college outreach theater cast, it has it all!! My only complaint is that they wasted all of that good COLOR film to make it (it sort of defeats the "film I made with my bottle return money" feel of the whole enterprise.