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Fresh Air from WHYY, March 20, 2009 · The documentary Chris and Don: A Love Story chronicles the romance of writer Christopher Isherwood
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...Terry Sanders. Zeitgeist Films Fresh Air from WHYY, July 9, 2008 · Artist Don Bachardy met British ex-pat author Christopher Isherwood on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. Bachardy was 18; Isherwood was 49. Given their age difference and Hollywood's then-repressive...
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Clint Eastwood is having a very good year. He may not have been feted at the Oscars, but massive box office is the best revenge. He directed Angelina Jolie to an Oscar nomination in Changeling (Universal; $29.98), the period film about a mother whose
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The New FIlm people are already saying is an award winning film before it's release. The Life of a Human Fish a truely compelling and is an emotional roller coaster, going from laughter to anger. ...This Film Will Change Your Life...
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HARTLAND, Vt. - George Tooker, the Vermont-based artist enjoying a late and unexpected return to favor, had his first success in the late 1940s just as abstract painting was gaining ascendancy. The art world's center was shifting inexorably from Paris
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'Chris and Don: A Love Story'
***½ — NR — 1:30
This fine documentary recounts the long, nurturing love affair between aging British author Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, who was a star-struck teen when they met on a beach in Santa Monica in 195
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A weekly listing of new DVDs.
Don Bachardy works on a painting of Christopher Isherwood in "Chris & Don: A Love Story."
Latest from our new movies blog
Here are some of this week's new DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers,
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Charles Lambert was born in the Midlands, but has lived in Italy for most of his adult life. His first novel, Little Monsters, came out last year and is now available in paperback. He is currently working on a new novel, set in Rome and entitled Any
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Writer Christopher Isherwood (left) and artist Don Bachardy in the late ’70s.
Since the dawn of the movie business, Hollywood’s bread-and-butter has revolved around people’s idealized notions of love: The nerd can get the princess, and Cinderella can
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Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's documentary traces the romantic relationship between writer Christopher Isherwood and painter Don Bachardy. The filmmakers utilize interviews with Don himself, as well as personal documents belonging to Isherwood, in
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Two students turned off Silver Street in Cambridge, England, into an alley. They saw a little door in a high wall.
“It’s a doorway into the Other Town,” Edward Upward said.
Mr. Upward and Christopher Isherwood used their febrile imaginations to pass
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The death of Edward Upward at the age of 105 breaks the final link with that
extraordinary group of left-wing writers who dominated English literature in
the 1930s.
The literary editor John Lehmann recalled that in 1932 he had "heard with
the tremor of
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Edward Upward, who died on February 13 aged 105, was a leading figure among
the Oxbridge generation of Thirties writers, whose early work was described
by Stephen Spender as representing a “further peak” beyond WH Auden and
Christopher Isherwood.
But
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Hollywood marriages are lucky to survive a year. There's something about
Tinsel town that makes couples want to split quicker than anywhere else on
Earth. Despite how easily discarded traditional marriage is amongst movie stars,
here we have the three
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Ignacio Merino y Gonzalo Escarpa presentan su programa de comentarios sobre autores interesantes y libros recomendados, haciendo hincapié en la fusión de poesía y prosa, pues como dijo Nicanor Parra La poesía es la prosa que se mueve. Los protagonistas de este capítulo son Christopher Isherwood y Antonio Orihuela. Christopher Isherwood resulta tan atractivo que es como el abuelo que hubiera querido tener, dice Merino. Tierno, evocador, tremendamente comprensivo con sus personajes, el autor ...
Cabaret - 8 Academy Awards! Cabaret is a 1972 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler. The film is loosely based on the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb, which was adapted from the Berlin stories of Christopher Isherwood and the play I Am a Camera which they inspired. Only a few numbers from the stage score ...
This is the last bit of scenes that I'll be uploading from the 1973 TV mini-series "Frankenstein: The True Story" written by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy and featuring David McCallum as Dr. Henry Clerval and Leonard Whiting as Dr. Victor Frankenstein. I know it's kind of dark. I've tried to lighten it up so it is easier to view on YouTube. This is an astonishingly beautiful piece of cinematic work and I recommend picking it up on DVD while it's still available in order to see it in ...
Even more scenes from the 1973 TV mini-series "Frankenstein: The True Story" written by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy and featuring David McCallum as Dr. Henry Clerval, Leonard Whiting as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Nicola Pagett as Elizabeth Fanschawe, Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Blair, and James Mason as Dr. John Polidori. I know it's kind of dark. I've tried to lighten it up so it is easier to view on YouTube. This is an astonishingly beautiful piece of cinematic work and I recommend ...
A few more scenes from the 1973 TV mini-series "Frankenstein: The True Story" written by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy and featuring David McCallum as Dr. Henry Clerval and Leonard Whiting as Dr. Victor Frankenstein. I know it's kind of dark. I've tried to lighten it up so it is easier to view on YouTube. This is an astonishingly beautiful piece of cinematic work and I recommend picking it up on DVD while it's still available in order to see it in all its pristine glory. Parts 3 and ...
A few scenes from the 1973 TV mini-series "Frankenstein: The True Story" written by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy and featuring David McCallum as Dr. Henry Clerval and Leonard Whiting as Dr. Victor Frankenstein. I know it's kind of dark. I've tried to lighten it up so it is easier to view on YouTube. This is an astonishingly beautiful piece of cinematic work and I recommend picking it up on DVD while it's still available in order to see it in all its pristine glory. Parts 2 and 3 ...
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A NEW VIEW: The Kurfurstendamm area today, with the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its heart
"Berlin is a city with two centers," wrote Christopher Isherwood in his episodic 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin. "The cluster of expensive hotels,
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Don Bachardy painting Christopher Isherwood in the early 1980s. Isherwood remained smitten until his death in 1986.
Chris & Don: A Love Story may be the most blissful film about artists ever
Don Bachardy is a good, minor California artist with
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Toronto Star
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[RECOMMENDED] CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY (NR) "Chris" was Christopher Isherwood, the British writer whose short stories inspired the stage successes Cabaret and I Am a Camera; "Don" is Don Bachardy, a fetching teenager the 49-year-old writer picked up
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CHANGELING (R) Clint Eastwood's angry obsession with American violence and the limits of legal justice (Unforgiven, Mystic River) bursts into flower again with this grim drama based on the Wineville Chicken Murders, which shocked Los Angeles in 1928. A
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[RECOMMENDED] CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY (NR) "Chris" was Christopher Isherwood, the British writer whose short stories inspired the stage successes Cabaret and I Am a Camera; "Don" is Don Bachardy, a fetching teenager the 49-year-old writer picked up
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The three-and-a-half- decade relationship of the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American portrait artist Don Bachardy is one of the ultimate true stories of a proto-gay- marriage succeeding in a forbidding climate.
Defying social
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Video clip Cubano, Cabaret del realizador Santana, inspirado en la puesta de Teatro de la compañía Mefisto de Tony Díaz, que a su vez se inspiró en la mundialmente reconocida obra de Joe Masteroff y el libro de Christopher Isherwood Adios a Berlín Director: Santana Arreglos musicales:Rey Montesino Interprete: Gretel Cazón Compañía teatral: Mefisto de Tony Díaz Coreografías: Iván Tenorio
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Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books
This week, on 6 and 7 October, Chris & Don: A Love Story will have its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London. The documentary tells the story of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, who met
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Artist Don Bachardy talks about how he and Christopher Isherwood worked out the sexual kinks in their relationship. Isherwood was 30 years older than Bachardy and their relationship lasted 33 years.
Artist Don Bachardy talks about making a big age difference in a relationship an advantage. Barchardy was 30 years younger than his partner, author Christopher Isherwood.
Artist Don Bachardy discusses his 33-year relationship with author Christopher Isherwood
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They look like father and son. A 30-year difference will do that.
But the men in "Chris & Don: A Love Story" are not parent and child but a couple whose love survived improbability, homophobia, time, temptation, illness and disparities in age, class,
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"Chris & Don: A Love Story" is th' true-life story o' th' passionate three-decade relationship betwixt British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Isherwood's Kit-Kat-Club years in
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When it comes to commercial Hollywood movies, autumn is a no-man’s land.Fine with us. Fall is a great season for foreign, independent and documentary films.In Kansas City the preponderance of these
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A diver explores Antarctic waters in Encounters At the End of the World. THINKFilm
Frozen horse heads dot the landscape of "the Sleepwalking Walking Capital of the World" in My Winnipeg. IFC Films
“['My Winnipeg' director Guy Maddin] weaves found footage ...
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The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book 'The Berlin Stories' inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.
Excelente película musical, que muestra la decadencia de un sector de la sociedad alemana en los últimos años de la República de Weimar, poco antes del ascenso de los nazis al poder. Cabaret trata acerca de personas cuya decadencia, despreocupación con el futuro y ambigüedad sexual eran parte de la escenografía del Berlín de los años '30 y esta centrada en la figura de Sally Bowles. Año: 1972 Género: Drama-Musical
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'Brideshead Revisited' | B | (PG-13; 2:15): The settings and period details are just right — and just beautiful — and there are some strong performances. But this version of "Brideshead Revisited" misses too much of the essence of Evelyn Waugh's modern
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This film offers a poignant portrait of the gay relationship between
Berlin Stories author Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, a
young man 30 years his junior whom he met on the beach during the 1950s.
Isherwood fostered Bachardy's career as a
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"I did feel awed by the emotional intensity of our relationship, from the beginning — a strange sense of a fated, mutual discovery," wrote Christopher Isherwood in his diaries, early on in his relationship with Don Bachardy. Isherwood, the British
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The Seattle Times
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In an era when most gay people were closeted, Isherwood and Bachardy did not hide their relationship.
Long before anyone was talking about gay marriage, that's what Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy had: a long-term intimate relationship between
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LOVE SICK: Don Bachardy (right) and Christopher Isherwood in the early '80s
When gay British writer Christopher Isherwood met Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in the 1950s, Isherwood was 49 and Bachardy was 18, and though they were attracted to one
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When they met on a Malibu beach in 1953, Christopher Isherwood was 49 and Don Bachardy was 18.
They became lovers and companions for the next three decades, until Isherwood's death in 1986. While Isherwood became famous for the stories that formed the bas...
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Malaysia Sun
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When they met on a Malibu beach in 1953, Christopher Isherwood was 49 and Don Bachardy was 18.
They became lovers and companions for the next three decades, until Isherwood's death in 1986. While Isherwood became famous for the stories that formed the
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The Seattle Times
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In a scene from "Chris & Don: A Love Story," Don Bachardy paints his longtime partner, author Christopher Isherwood, in the early '80s.
Chris & Don: A Love Story, a double portrait of the late writer Christopher Isherwood and his life partner,
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If you want the cheesiness that comes along with romance blockbusters, featuring A-list Hollywood actresses resolving relationship hurdles and living happily ever after in their Jimmy Choos, I would suggest not seeing this movie.
If you want a true
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The Daily Aztec
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Chris and Don. An exceptionally moving documentary about Christopher Isherwood and his much younger artist-lover Don Bachardy who survives him, who lives still in their California house -- still with him, figuratively. The film is pleasantly
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The New Republic
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A documentary portrait of one of the most extraordinary and unconventional relationships of the past century, between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait artist Don Bachardy. Directed by Guido Santi & Tina Mascara.
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