Movies

April, 1988

Grand Opera enters the music-video era in Aria (Miramax), an explosion of talent, melody and tantalizing imagery that will probably attract more classicists than MTV addicts. Producer Don Boyd's brain storm was to give ten directors carte blanche with an operatic aria of their choice, going as far out as inspiration or irreverence might lead them. Typically, director Julien Temple uses Verdi's Rigoletto as background music for a here-and-now sex farce about a married couple (Buck Henry and Anita...