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Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending.
If music be the food of love, play on...--and I'd play this.
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Over on the Filmmaker Magazine web site you can find an interview I conducted with documentary filmmaker Kathy Leichter. Kathy's film, Here One Day, was born out of grief, as was A Life's Work. Though our inspiration may have been the same, we made two very different films.
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There’s really no point in me trying to convince you that the Quay Brothers exhibit at MoMA is worth your time and money. Either you find them deeply disturbing and you like them or you find them deeply disturbing and you don’t like them. However, since they are not a household name, I thought it might be useful to design a little quiz, a litmus test, really, so that you can decide whether or not they’re right for you.
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Full disclosure: I’m working as the Social Media & Crowdsource Consultant for the film HUMBLE BEAUTY: Skid Row Artists. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s move on to the interview with the directors, Judith Vogelsang and Leititia Popa Schwartz.
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A Brave ACT at the Box Office by Duane Kelly
New Straight Plays Bleed Red Ink on Broadway by Duane Kelly
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A while back I was chatting with a friend about A Life’s Work and I said music influenced it, and all my work, in a big way. My friend asked me to elaborate and I couldn’t really articulate it at the time, but here’s an example of what I mean, with apologies to those of you who can't stomach Steely Dan. (I do understand why some folks hate this band, I really do.)
In May I stumbled upon a TV show called Classic Albums and watched an episode devoted to Steely Dan’s Aja album. (My relationship with Steely Dan has been tumultuous: loved them in the 70s, hated them in the 80s, 90s, 00s, appreciate them now.) When it came time to talk about the guitar solo in Peg, my ears perked up. The studio solo by Jay Graydon is possibly my favorite rock and roll-fusion-jazz-whatever 26-seconds of guitar ever put down on vinyl. I would have said that no matter what decade I was in.
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I had seen films in the theater before I was 17 years old, and I’ve even written about that experience here once before, but when I was 17, a perfect storm blew into my life. I finally had my driver’s license and a car, I lived in the suburbs and hung out with a group of bored, like-minded, teenage boys, and the Golden Age of the slasher film was about to begin. In the fall of 1978, John Carpenter unleashed Michael Myers on the world and the gruesome genre was born, big shiny knife in hand.
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In 1976 Werner Herzog hypnotized his cast of actors and directed one of the strangest narrative films in the history of cinema, Heart of Glass. Alan Greenberg, then a young writer, aspiring filmmaker, and Herzog disciple, was on the set, and thirty-odd years later he, and Herzog, would like to tell you all about it. Hence, Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass” (Chicago Review Press).
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