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Tommy Steele's performance as Og, the slowly-turning-into-a-human leprechaun, is frantically overblown.
The film's editing is criminal in that Fred Astaire's feet are often unseen in his dance routines. And the attempt to blend reality and make-believe results in an awkwardly uneven balance of the two - Coppola would have been far more successful had he decided to emphasize the whimsical and play down the outdated political aspects of the story.
But for all these shortcomings, "Finian's Rainbow" - from its spectacular opening credits to its nicely staged farewell to Finian - almost a goodbye to Astaire himself, for whom this would be his last dancing role - is pleasant entertainment, buoyed by its familiar score and anchored by the presence of Petula Clark, whose delightfully fresh and sweetly seductive performance is the true gold to be discovered here.
Deservedly, Clark was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of Sharon McLonergan, and if for nothing else, her performance makes "Finian's Rainbow" definitely worth a look-see.
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The score, although exquisitely timeless and highly recognizable, was old-fashioned in its theatricality and not likely to result in a best-selling cast album. Mono 35 mm prints 70 mm 6-Track 70 mm prints. In fact, all the substantial Latin texts composed by women after stem from German-speaking lands—a remarkable fact that testifies to the high educational level of nuns and canonesses in the empire, far surpassing the norm for other parts of Europe. My art comes from the bottom of the cauldron—so I proclaim. Add the first question. Frauenlob is the most famous of a neglected group of poets who fill a key place in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century literature.
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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. User Polls Favorite biographical documentary? Nominated for 2 Oscars. I make it known in words and melodies, without a trace of ridicule: Singers until now have traveled the narrow path that runs alongside the highway of rich art. Above all who have ever sung and are singing still, I am their master! They are like a rotten stump compared to a living tree. I bear the yoke of artistic skill; I am a master chef of the arts.
My words and melodies have never overstepped the bounds of proper meaning. As Burghart Wachinger has noted, this poem is unparalleled in all medieval German literature for its unabashed, extravagant self-praise. In that work of dramatic fiction, which presents rival singers competing to produce the best praise-poem, Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach are prominent characters, and it is for that reason likely that the boast cites them. Otherwise it would have made little sense for Frauenlob to compare himself with Wolfram, a much earlier epic poet, rather than a fellow Spruchdichter.
In vaunting his superiority to these precursors, Frauenlob—or the singer impersonating him—boasts of two qualities in particular: The Manesse Codex transmits two counterstrophes attacking this poem, both ascribed to Regenbogen. The first begins with open abuse and proceeds to a passionate defense of the old masters:. Braggart, nitwit, fool, idiot—shut up about the art of the dead! My mouth contradicts you; you get no sympathy from me.
You claim that you gild the song of the masters with a gilded garment—they who plucked so many roses of skillful invention from the field of art, and still do?
I will be the champion of them all! Your art will stumble: I will engrave the cauldron of your notions for you. Your art seems to me more like a nettle than the violets of mastery.
How dare you mount the throne of art on which they sat! I come forth as the defender of them all. My song will strike you right on target, for your boasting annoys me no end. My art will pound you through the cauldron! If the dead and the living leave you free, then try just once to slip out of my fetters! Although at least three contemporaries, including Hermann Damen and Regenbogen, responded to the boast as an actual song by Frauenlob, its authenticity has been questioned more than once. Rettelbach, however, presents compelling evidence that Frauenlob could not have written the boast, for it contains an elementary technical error.
In the Abgesang, or final third of the strophe, the word noch is made to rhyme with itself. Although English and French poets used rime riche as an ornament, German poets considered identical rhyme a serious flaw and scrupulously avoided it. It is unthinkable that a virtuoso like Frauenlob would have committed such a fault—and moreover, both counterstrophes ascribed to Regenbogen display the same flaw, as if pointedly mocking it. If read closely, the boast reveals other signs of parody as well. Yet Rettelbach nominates Rumelant, another foe, as the parodist because he was the better poet.
Circumstantial evidence also suggests that Frauenlob may have ousted Rumelant from his position as court poet to King Erik VIII of Denmark, providing a likely motive for revenge. It is a striking fact that, for all the frequency of polemic and ritual aggression among these traveling poets, Frauenlob alone inspired stylistic parodies. His native dialect was a form of Middle German, but he spent much of his career in the Low German—speaking regions of the north: The last datable event that he mentions is a chivalric feast in the Hanseatic port city of Rostock in Shortly afterward, however, he settled permanently in Mainz, a High German—speaking city in the Rhineland.
His patron there was the powerful archbishop Peter von Aspelt, who may have met the poet in the Bohemian court as early as the s. A high-ranking political figure, Peter had been physician and chaplain to Rudolf of Habsburg , then protonotary to King Wenceslas II , chancellor of Bohemia and bishop of Basel , and finally archbishop of Mainz The large corpus of inauthentic poems ascribed to him in the manuscripts might best be explained as the work of his many disciples. But in view of his exalted praise of Woman, a defining mark of his oeuvre, we should not forget that the world of secular German poetry was overwhelmingly male.
We do find female-voiced lyrics by male poets, as well as outstanding female religious writers. In fact, all the substantial Latin texts composed by women after stem from German-speaking lands—a remarkable fact that testifies to the high educational level of nuns and canonesses in the empire, far surpassing the norm for other parts of Europe. Among vernacular sacred writers, Mechthild of Magdeburg d. But the poet is not likely to have known her book—or indeed, the work of any female author—unless he encountered some lyrics or other texts by Hildegard of Bingen during his late years at Mainz, where she enjoyed a significant cult.
The poetic speaker in his debate poem, Minne und Welt, does give thanks for his beautiful wife, but he does so to set an argument in motion; there is no reason to take his statement as autobiographical. Though Frauenlob may well have been married, we know nothing whatsoever of his wife or possible children.
Rather, all his women are goddesses: Natura, Minne, Sapientia, and above all, the double-natured Lady of the Marienleich, the divine-human Mary, partner of the Trinity, who incarnates both God and the Eternal Feminine. Subscribe to our mailing list and be notified about new titles, journals and catalogs. This book introduces the poet to English-speaking readers with a fresh poetic translation of his masterpiece, the Marienleich —a virtuosic poem of more than lines in praise of the Virgin Mary. Text and Translation 1. Finian's Rainbow 6.
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