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"GENIUS WITHIN: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould" Opens September 10
New York, NY — Lorber Films is proud to announce the US theatrical premiere of GENIUS WITHIN: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, directed by distinguished filmmakers Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont (Shake Hands with the Devil), the definitive documentary about one of the greatest and most enigmatic musicians of the twentieth century. The film will ...
Event Alert: Private Screening of "GhettoPhysics: Will The Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up!"
Los Angeles—Tuesday, August 24 will mark the evening that Captured Light Films, along with producer William Arntz and author E. Raymond Brown, debut a private screening of their groundbreaking collaboration “GhettoPhysics: Will The Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up!" A documentary feature which mixes political commentary with social awareness and spirituality dynamics, “GhettoPhysics" jumps off ...
The New Mastersounds: Coals to Newcastle Screenings
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT UK FUNKANAUTS Coals to Newcastle: The New Mastersounds: From Leeds To New Orleans will have several screenings this fall, beginning on the West Coast and heading for two premieres along the East Coast before traveling to Leeds for the film's European premiere: Sep 15-19, Temecula Valley Int'l Film and Music Festival, CA Oct 14-17, ...
Jerry Garcia Film in Doubt
BIOPIC CALLED INTO QUESTION BY GRATEFUL DEAD PRODUCTIONS Jerry Garcia The future of the recently announced Jerry Garcia film is in doubt, as Grateful Dead Productions have announced they will not allow any Grateful Dead recordings to be used in the film, nor will they allow access to any members of the Garcia family. A statement ...
Miles Davis vs. Don Draper
Definitely worth a read. Good stuff. Yet, for all of its strengths, Mad Men wouldn't be nearly so appealing if not for the fact that it is set during a time when America was neatly divided between the hip and the square. It's important to point out, though, that during the early '60s, the time ...
L.A.'s Jazz Bakery Still Homeless but Alive This Week at the L.A. Premiere of New Film, "The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi"
The Jazz Bakery, one of Los Angeles' most revered jazz establishments, is still homeless after closing its doors last spring, but it is still alive and living off the fat of the land. Running a non-profit jazz club that features big national acts and low ticket prices 7 days a week ain't easy. When ...
Red Norvo's Spotlight Band on Film
The distinguished jazz film scholar Mark Cantor offers another cinematic mystery: “In Back Beats and Rim Shots, Warren Vache and Johnny Blowers discuss a band put together by Red Norvo, under the sponsorship of Coca Cola, for an overseas tour during World War II. The tour never happened, but before the band broke up a film ...
Devil May Care: The Bob Dorough Movie
We've written about Bob Dorough several times here before. Bob is a unique and wonderful jazz singer/songwriter, but he's best known as the musical director of Schoolhouse Rock, the cartoon vignettes set to music that taught children Grammar, Math, Science, Multiplication, History. Economics, and Environmental lessons. Bob composed such wonderful songs as “Conjunction Junction" and “Three ...
A Haunting Miles Davis Film Score
Louis Malle's 1958 film Ascenseur pour l'échafraud (Elevator to the Gallows) is legendary for a number of reasons. It helped usher in the French New Wave film movement, it made Jeanne Moreau a star, and it has a haunting score by Miles Davis. The film is a crime drama about two lovers, Florence (Moreau) and Julien ...
