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Sundance 2009: Films in Competition
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Michael Ricci
Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah is reeving up. Here is a list of this years films in competition.
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION This year's 16 films were selected from 879 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
The films screening in Documentary Competition are:
Art & Copy (Director: Doug Pray; Screenwriter: Timothy J. Sexton)Rare interviews with the most influential advertising creative minds of our age illustrate the wide-reaching effect advertising and creativity have on modern culture. ...
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Fantasia: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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All About Jazz
If it wasn't for “The Sorcerer's Apprentice", the feature Fantasia would never have been made. The fairy tale was made into a poem by Goethe and into a concert piece by Paul Dukas.
Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the backdrop of animation and featuring no dialogue, only spoken introductions by Deems Taylor before each cartoon, as well as during the intermission segment.
The ...
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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
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All About Jazz
The short speaks volumes on the nature of jazz. “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" was awarded the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1965. It is based on the book by Norton Juster published two years earlier, a budding romance between a dot and an initially unyieldingly straight line.
The trigonometric love story has a third person (love triangle) involved - a rather unruly squiggle - with the dot attracted by the ...
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Prop 8: The Musicial
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All About Jazz
Prop 8: The Musical All-Star Hollywood Cast Makes Video Mocking Gay Marriage Opponents
Playbill News: Conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman, the three-minute video was directed and staged by Adam Shankman, who helmed the “Hairspray" movie musical. The video also boasts an array of theatre and stage stars: The “California Gays and The People That Love Them" are played by Jordan Ballard, Margaret Cho, Barrett Foa, J.B. Ghuman, John Hill, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Rashad Naylor and ...
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Costellos Spectacle a Different Look at Music
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All About Jazz
Singers experience, insights make music-talk show great viewing Elvis Costello's new original series Spectacle will premiere on the Sundance Channel on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. ET.
During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show Spectacle, Elvis Costello didn't ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or “Island Girl." Instead, the conversation turned to Laura Nyro, Leon Russell and David Ackles.
The two men closed the show, which airs Wednesday at 9 p.m., performing the ...
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What's Opera, Doc?
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All About Jazz
We here at All About Jazz, in our effort to include those of the finer music crowd, and to show that we Improvisers got good taste too.
We like to share for your holiday pleasure our series following on High Note, the Chuck Jones cartoon with today's selection, What's Opera, Doc. Sit back and enjoy a night at the theater. (please use the video below to view the classic. No pun intended.)
Would those of you in the cheaper seats ...
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There's No Jazz Fueling This 'Cadillac'
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All About Jazz
Jazz is at the roots of the Chess Records story, a legacy that's silent in “Cadillac Records." Leonard Chess broke into the local music scene in 1949 by opening the Macomba Lounge at 47th and South Karlov. The late-night club attracted jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, who were headlining earlier in the evening at other Bronzeville venues. “[Jazz pianist] Ahmad Jamal was one of the greatest artists at Chess," says mid-1960s Chess arranger-producer Gene Barge. “Ramsey Lewis did ...
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