Talk:Testimony (1988 film)

Old Quotes section
I've the old Quotes section from the article per WP:NOTDIR. If anyone wants them to place in a better place, then here they are:

"A masterpiece...exceptional; an undoubted hit" - The Sunday Times

"The best British film of the year" - Films and Filming

"Exciting and deeply moving piece of cinema" - The Independent

"Testimony is one of those comparatively rare events nowadays – a real piece of cinema. Palmer's prowess as an editor, his knack of juxtaposing image and music – something which has remained his forte since he first caused a stir back in the sixties with Buddhist monks burning to The Beatles – has a field day in Testimony. Most importantly for a movie about a composer, there is always the feeling that Palmer understands the music. For a start, he puts to rest the hoary old cliché that the private Shostakovich is only to be found in his chamber music – try listening to the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth symphonies – but he also brings vividly alive musical details (like the composer's use of unison scoring) in colour sequences showing the orchestra, as in the climax of the Fifth ... a truly remarkable film." - Derek Elley 'Films and Filming'

"Shorn of the composer’s youthful iconoclasm or any scenes of happier private life, this is the familiar tale of Shostakovich v Stalin, but told with the individual flair of a born image-maker in black and white scenes tellingly lit and interspersed with flashes of colour (mostly red). Kingsley captures well the composer's ironical tone as well as his nervousness under fire ... As a concentrated dose of pure anguish, it’s compellingly done." - BBC Music Magazine

George8211 / T 12:28, 28 October 2014 (UTC)