Best Composer Movie
| The Music Lovers 1) Glenda Jackson as Madame von Meck almost steals the show from Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky, Mr. Conflicted Composer Himself. 2) Check the very long, very complicated single take as the camera follows Tchaikovsky into the concert hall for the performance of the piano concerto. One of the most brilliantly orchestrated camera moves in cinema history, spoiled only when immediately thereafter, we have to watch Chamberlain's fingers unconvincingly flailing the keyboard. 3) While Ken Russell certainly makes good use of Tchaikovsky as proto-soundtrack composer, he also knows enough at times to just get out of the way and let those melodies sing.
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