April 21: Special Follows-Up Edition

Joseph Jon Lanthier at The Rumpus agrees with David Denby that the Argentine Oscar winner The Secret in Their Eyes is an exceptional film (PMD, April 12) :

http://therumpus.net/2010/04/the-rumpus-review-of-the-secret-in-their-eyes/

The Los Angeles Opera production of Franz Schreker's The Stigmatized (PMD, April 4) gets a thumbs-up from Mark Swed:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/franz-schrekers-the-stigmatized-at-los-angeles-opera.html

The New York Times confirms that Schreker is hot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/arts/14iht-loomis.html

The ensemble Ne(x)tworks recently took on Morton Feldman's six hour Second String Quartet (PMD, April 5):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/arts/music/13feldman.html

The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, news in New York (PMD, Aptil 6), is also news in Los Angeles with a concert performance of his opera La Commedia:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/music-review-la-commedia-at-the-green-umbrella-concert-at-disney-hall.html

The German New Wave director Werner Schroeter (PMD, March 8), has passed away at age 65. We need many more of his films on DVD; nothing is currently available at Netflix.

http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1709