Allen Ginsberg
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Director Matt Wolf's (*Teenage*) critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A tender, fascinating documentary by Matt Wolf, will delight the cult and instantly convert new members." - Nathan Lee, **The New York Times***
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brendan Behan's life can be divided into 3 parts: his youthful years in an English jail for his activities on behalf of the I.R.A.; his writing, drawn largely from his experiences as a prisoner; and his prodigious boozing, which resulted in his death in 1963 at the age of 41.
Allan Miller's affecting documentary tells Behan's story through the people who knew him best - his wife, brothers, I.R.A. comrades and fellow drinkers in the Dublin pubs,
...Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his free-form program Radio unnameable, a cultural hub for music, politics, and audience engagement. For nearly 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on New York City listener-sponsored station WBAI, utilizing the airwaves for mobilization long before today's innovations in social media. Drawing from Fass's extraordinary personal archive of audio recordings,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A visit to the Spoleto Festival in Umbria on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. Highlights of the film: Don Giovanni: - director Gian Carlo Menotti, conductor Thomas Schippers, set designer Henry Moore; The Stuttgart Ballet: - choreographer John Cranko; Jerzy Grotowski's staging of El Principe Constante by Calderón presented by the Warsaw Lab Theatre, Charles Wadsworth, originator of Chamber Music Concerts at Noon - featuring brilliant young...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.