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NOCTURNES.("The Pianist")(Critical Essay)
Scenes from a recurring nightmare: families gathered in an enormous yard, ignorant of where they are going and fearing the worst; bewildered strangers at the edges of a crowd muttering to themselves; despairing attempts to save a treasured violin; and then a train whistle, a noise so unequivocal in its associations that it has assumed the portent of a symbol, the permanence of a scar. The deportations to the Nazi death camps have become the Jewish Passion play, an event whose meaning lies as much in endless representation and reiteration as in the feelings of rage and grief that it calls up. In the most recent version, Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," we are acquainted with ...
- KEYS TO SURVIVAL 'PIANIST' PROTAGONIST SZPILMAN MADE IT THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST -...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) January 9, 2003 700+ words
...1939, Polish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman was performing a short...popular music,'' said the pianist's son, Andrzej Szpilman, 46. ``He would write...Sings the Music of the Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman,'' the disc is a hybrid...
- Newsweek Interview: Christopher Szpilman Son of 'The Pianist' Wladyslaw...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 16, 2003 700+ words
...YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Szpilman, the son of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation...Oscar-nominated Roman Polanski film, "The Pianist," tells Newsweek International that he didn...
- CD unveils modern sounds of Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman.(Arts and...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Katz, Larry January 29, 2003 700+ words
...World War II. We see Szpilman transformed from an urbane classical pianist to a desperate survivor...the Music of the Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman" reveals the light...was not known as a pianist in Poland," Szpilman's son Andrzej says...
- Christopher Szpilman.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International March 24, 2003 700+ words
"The pianist," Roman Polanski's sobering celluloid portrayal of a Polish...best actor for Adrien Brody, for his portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the pianist in Warsaw. Szpilman's family may be most surprised by the film's success...
- The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45....
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Zaluski, Iwo October 1, 1999 700+ words
...of eyes. Not so Wladyslaw Szpilman's The Pianist. Written just after the...story, remarkably told. Szpilman, a Jewish pianist who worked for Warsaw Radio...who are the villains of The Pianist. Szpilman asks many questions about...
- 'Pianist' fades out; Polanski falters despite own experience of escaping Warsaw...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 3, 2003 700+ words
...One of the survivors was the classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who died in 2000 at age 88. He was 27...September 1939. Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," a movie version of Mr. Szpilman's postwar memoirs, begins with a re...
- Songs of `The Pianist' Released in America; Pop Compositions from the Subject...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 8, 2002 700+ words
...Sings The Music Of The Pianist- Wladyslaw Szpilman (Hip-O Records...Sings The Music Of The Pianist- Wladyslaw Szpilman For the first time, the...Sings The Music Of The Pianist- Wladyslaw Szpilman (Hip-O Records...
- 'PIANIST' IS OUT OF TUNE, LACKS REALISTIC HERO.(Editorial)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 7, 2003 700+ words
...Schindler's List'' and now ``The Pianist,'' the Holocaust remains a...said, I contend that ``The Pianist'' is an overlong, mediocre...hero,'' an acclaimed Polish pianist named Szpilman, is the most passive protagonist...