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Leni Riefenstahl--satanic yet visually gifted old narcissist?
In choosing among the many candidates, it is only reasonable to give a modest preference to those who can bring along a good gardening writer, a gifted hack, or an expert on 501(c)(3) organizations.
In this obscure pantheon, a place must be reserved for Klaus Kinski, the erratically gifted Polish-German actor and noted mal vivant , who tried to publish the English version of his autobiography in 1988 under the massively ironic title All I Need is Love . The book was caught in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.
The Pinacoteca’s fine collection is devoted in large part to the Bologna school, most notably the Baroque paintings of Guido Reni, and the Carracci family, of whom Annibale was the most gifted — see his Annunciation and Madonna in Glory.
While the adaptation is respectful, it "mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir" and unfortunately becomes "something resembling a conventional tale of a gifted young man's struggle to lift himself out of oppressive circumstances" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). The harshest complaint: It's just "two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The more upbeat take: The movie is "a thinner version of the novel, but you still get a drama that has you laughing and brokenhearted" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)
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