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LOOKING AT NUTCRACKER
The Nutcracker: Complete
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, [Kistler, Woetzel] (1993)
Balanchine, New York City Ballet - 93 min.
A great film version of a great production, dubbed narration occasionally intrudes.Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, [Barker, Walthall] (1983)
Stowell, Pacific Northwest Ballet - 84 min.
Quirky, idiosyncratic back-to-Hoffman manquéThe Nutcracker, [Baryshnikov, Kirkland] (1976)
Baryshnikov, American Ballet Theater - 79 min.
Beautiful Gelsey Kirkland, Baryshnikov in his prime; unfortunate, muddled production._____________, [Arkiphova, Mukhamedov] (1989)
Grigorovitch, Bolshoi Ballet - 105 min.
Icky, unmagical production, dances turn into slow-motion processions._____________, [Maximova-N. Pavlova, Vasiliev-Gordeyev] (1978)
Grigorovitch, Bolshoi Ballet - 120 min.
Drama captured on tape - principal is injured; bring on the understudy!_____________, [Maximova, Vasiliev] (1984)
Grigorovitch, Bolshoi Ballet - no timing available_____________, [Vasilieva, Gorbatsevich] (1995)
Kasatkina/Vasiliov, Russian State Theater Academy of Classical Ballet - 100 min.
A conflation of various choreographies - a sort of composite version_____________, [Nureyev, Park] (1968)
Nureyev, Royal Ballet - no timing available
Heavily dependent on Soviet versions, magic-challenged. Park at her best._____________, [Maurin, Hilaire] (1988)
Nureyev, Paris Opera Ballet - no timing available_____________, [Lezhnina, Baranov] (1994)
Vainonen, Kirov Ballet - 95 min.
Oh dear, Vainonen! Oldy-timey Marxist-Leninist realism starts to take its toll on a poor defenseless ballet._____________, [Collier, Dowell] (1985)
Wright, after Ivanov, Royal Ballet - 102 min.
Soldiers on in the right directions, but gets lost in its own conventions. Drosselmeyer's relationship to interpolated nephew leaves a bad taste._____________, [Yoshida, Mukhamedov] (1994)
Wright, after Ivanov, Birmingham Royal Ballet - 98 min.