by Bryan | Mar 24, 2010 | Film, Music, Writing New York
This morning in lecture I promised I’d post these: Info here. And, from Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (1997), the montage he has suggested should be shown at the Academy Awards (alongside the montage of dead industry folks): As I mentioned at the end of lecture,...
by Bryan | Mar 23, 2010 | Film, Music, Teaching, Writing New York
Just back in town from a long conference weekend in Albuquerque. Cyrus was jetset to and from Abu Dhabi in the meantime. I’m kind of hoping we’ll be able to keep up the blog a little more regularly than we have the last few weeks. Tomorrow I’m...
by Bryan | Mar 26, 2009 | Film
Normally when I lecture on The Jazz Singer, I spend some time near the end talking about the film’s final two vocal performances, especially Jack/Jakie’s decision to return to the synagogue to sing Kol Nidre in his dying father’s place. (The final...
by Bryan | Mar 25, 2009 | Film, Writing New York
I mentioned in lecture this morning that the recent DVD repackaging of The Jazz Singer — which I highly recommend — comes with a copy of the original souvenir book sold in theaters for a quarter, a sort of playbill for the movie. The studio really pushes...
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