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Woody Guthrie's Music Inspires Americas Dust Bowl Era Desperation
Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her family and, like thousands ...
BIRD Captures Charlie Parker
I've seen two documentaries about Charlie Parker recently, but I haven't seen a lot of Parker. In an age when archives are filled with newsreel footage and videotape on even the most obscure of public figures, Parker seems always to have been somewhere else when the cameras were on. There is a shot of him accepting ...
The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
The unheralded trumpeter makes a compelling centerpiece for the documentary. Music elite and bebop fans widely consider him the greatest living jazz trumpeter. Though commonly recognized by many from his longtime stint as Merv Griffin's comedic sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show, trumpeter and vocalist Jack Sheldon qualifies, hands-down, as a force of jazz and one ...
'Let's Get Lost' West Coast Cool Jazz of Chet Baker
In the center of the frame, very close to the camera, hangs a studio microphone that could be mistaken for a vintage Soviet communications satellite. Chet Baker, 58, is recording Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's “Imagination." His voice isn't quite as soft and papery as it used to be, but the image -- like every ...
Behind the 'Looney Tunes': A Look at Chuck Jones' Life
Most people can recall sitting in front of a television watching Bugs Bunny slyly outwit his would-be captors. Or perhaps, as a child, you were a fan of the trials and tribulations of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote as they chased each other endlessly. (And maybe you still are.) Whoever your favorite Looney Tunes is, ...
For Warner Bros. Time is Changing
Clock ticking on Warner Bros. succession drama Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes must decide how to replace Barry Meyer and Alan Horn, who have jointly presided over the studio and are to step down in 2011. With the heads of Warner Bros. signing only two-year contract extensions, Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes will focus ...
Round Midnight Dexter Gordon Plays a Classic
In Dexter Gordon's voice in Round Midnight, there is a quality that at first sounds like a great weariness. As I listened more carefully, however, I realized that there were other notes present. Here is a man (I speak of the character, not the actor) who has gone too far and seen too much, and who ...
Jonathan Demme Debuts “Neil Young Trunk Show” at SXSW
Director Jonathan Demme was on hand at SXSW for the world premiere of his concert film, Neil Young Trunk Show. The film is an intimate look at Young’s stage show, recorded in a small theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on mostly hand-held cameras. “We did a home movie in a way,” said Demme to a Saturday ...
David Carradine: Still Punchy After All These Years
It's still early, but it's pretty safe to say that the award for the “Craziest Post- Screening Panel Discussion of the Year". It has to go to David Carradine and Haskell Wexler, who got to show everyone who stayed after an American Cinematheque screening of Hal Ashby's “Bound for Glory" just what it must've been like ...
IATSE Ratifies Three-Year Contract That Cuts Health Benefits
The union, which represents more than 35,000 film and TV workers, fends off a campaign by dissidents who accused their leaders of selling them short at the bargaining table. A union representing more than 35,000 film and TV workers has approved a new three- year contract, fending off a vigorous opposition campaign by dissidents who accused ...
