John Pringle Movies
A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native island, and he sends away to America for a mail-order bride. To his pleasant surprise, his fiancée from the United States, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), turns out to be not only beautiful but passionate and devoted. But Luis' happiness proves to be short-lived when he learns that Julia is not the person he imagined her to be, and detective Walter Downs (Thomas Jane) appears, trying to get to the bottom of Julia's mysterious past and possibly deadly secrets. Original Sin is based on the novel Waltz Into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, which Francois Truffaut previously adapted for the screen as La Sirene du Mississippi. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, (more)
- 1991
- R
British rock musician and video director Lol Creme directed this whimsical tale featuring madmen, talking trees and big-breasted women. Aloysius (Paul Campbell) is a sweet-natured idiot who spends most of his time in a small Jamaican town talking to trees and animals. In fact, his best friend is a giant limbed tree, sleeping under its branches at night. Problems begin with the arrival of a sex-crazed German tourist named Inga (Julie T. Wallace), who enlists Aloysius as a guide and erotic slave. So insatiable is this busty German that Aloysius is compelled to complain, "Dee pum pum is worse tyranny than colonialism." Aloysius's plight intensifies when Inga's father cuts off her supply of money. Desperate for cash, she persuades Aloysius and her other paramour, the aptly named Service Johnson (Carl Bradshaw), to break into the home of wealthy Busha (Reggie Carter) to steal his money. Aloysius agrees, convinced that Inga is the love of his life. But the robbery goes bad and, although Aloysius saves the life of Busha, he faces hard time at the local workhouse. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Julie T. Wallace, Paul Campbell, (more)
This classic tale is of a musically gifted cobbler who competes in a songwriting contest, and is brought to life by the Australian Opera in Sydney. Takes place in Rennaisance Nürnberg. ~ Rovi
- 1986
Acclaimed children's author Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) was one of the chief creative forces behind this imaginative 1986 production of Sergei Prokofiev's 1919 fantasy opera The Love of Three Oranges, staged at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The original work tells of a king whose hypochondriacal son can only be cured through laughter; nothing can do the trick except for an accident that befalls the witch Fata Morgana, who loses her skirt. Upon seeing this, the prince bursts into hysterics, which infuriates Fata Morgana. In revenge, she imparts the young man with a romantic obsession for three oranges, which he pursues to the ends of the Earth. Sendak fills the stage with oversized puppets, jugglers, body-builders, monsters, and laces the production with special animated sequences. It stars Willard White as The King, Ryland Davies as The Prince and Nelly Morpurgo as Fata Morgana. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Bernard Haitink, provides musical accompaniment. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Not to be confused with the innumerable features of the same name, this release actually constitutes a version of Richard Strauss's 1923 Intermezzo, an autobiographical opera about marital discord. This production - mounted by The Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1983 - stars John Pringle and Felicity Lott; The London Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Gustav Kuhn, provides symphonic accompaniment. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Felicity Lott, John Pringle, (more)
