Charlotte Zwerin

Charlotte Zwerin

Nascimento : 1931-08-15, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Morte : 2004-01-22

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charlotte Zwerin (born Charlotte Mitchell, August 15, 1931, Detroit, Michigan – January 22, 2004, Manhattan) was a documentary film director and editor best known for work concerning artists or musicians, although she also made films concerning other subjects. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlotte Zwerin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Charlotte Zwerin

Filmes

Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
Writer
Writer-director Charlotte Zwerin performs sleight of hand with this beautifully composed documentary, originally produced for public television's American Masters series. Created nearly four years after Ella Fitzgerald's death, Zwerin's film uses the lush voice and superb repertoire of "the First Lady of Song" to provide continuity while assembling convincing, if composite, narrative quotes gleaned from various interviews. The latter are noteworthy given the singer's lifelong modesty and insistence on privacy. Archival footage of early performances, as well as later television appearances, capture Ella's pilgrimage from Depression-era New York, through her discovery at the Apollo Theater and subsequent emergence as a swing vocalist and on to her long career as a matchless pop and jazz stylist. Tony Bennett is a sympathetic narrator, while added affection and insight are provided through
Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
Director
Writer-director Charlotte Zwerin performs sleight of hand with this beautifully composed documentary, originally produced for public television's American Masters series. Created nearly four years after Ella Fitzgerald's death, Zwerin's film uses the lush voice and superb repertoire of "the First Lady of Song" to provide continuity while assembling convincing, if composite, narrative quotes gleaned from various interviews. The latter are noteworthy given the singer's lifelong modesty and insistence on privacy. Archival footage of early performances, as well as later television appearances, capture Ella's pilgrimage from Depression-era New York, through her discovery at the Apollo Theater and subsequent emergence as a swing vocalist and on to her long career as a matchless pop and jazz stylist. Tony Bennett is a sympathetic narrator, while added affection and insight are provided through
Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu
Director
Inspired to write music after hearing the French song "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" during World War II, film composer Toru Takemitsu enjoyed a rich career working with many of Japanese cinema's greatest directors. Rarely interviewed filmmakers such as Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) and Masaki Kobayashi (Kaidan) expound on the varied sonic palettes Takemitsu left upon their works.
Sit Down and Fight
Director
The story of Walter Reuther and the struggle to unionize the automobile workers of the US in the 1930s.
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
Director
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s heroine in recording sessions with Seiji Ozawa and the Orchestre National de France. Musical segments include performances of three arias and the great duets between Carmen and Don José
A Vida e a Música de Thelonious Monk
Producer
O cineasta Bruce Ricker não podia acreditar na sua sorte. As imagens filmadas por Michael e Christian Blackwood sobre o compositor e pianista de jazz moderno, Thelonious Monk, em 1968, estavam em excelente estado. Incluindo cenas de Monk fora dos palcos. Os rolos estavam, Ricker disse, "apenas lá, esperando para serem descobertos e revelados ao mundo". aaRicker, como produtor, junta-se a diretora Charlotte Zwerin ("Gimme Shelter"), ao produtor executivo Clint Eastwood e outros para trazerem esse material à vida. "A Vida e Música de Thelonious Monk" combina imagens dos Blackwood como Thelonious no estúdio, durante a turnê e cenas por trás das câmeras, como novas entrevistas, fotos de arquivo e mais para criar um marco visual na história do jazz moderno.
A Vida e a Música de Thelonious Monk
Director
O cineasta Bruce Ricker não podia acreditar na sua sorte. As imagens filmadas por Michael e Christian Blackwood sobre o compositor e pianista de jazz moderno, Thelonious Monk, em 1968, estavam em excelente estado. Incluindo cenas de Monk fora dos palcos. Os rolos estavam, Ricker disse, "apenas lá, esperando para serem descobertos e revelados ao mundo". aaRicker, como produtor, junta-se a diretora Charlotte Zwerin ("Gimme Shelter"), ao produtor executivo Clint Eastwood e outros para trazerem esse material à vida. "A Vida e Música de Thelonious Monk" combina imagens dos Blackwood como Thelonious no estúdio, durante a turnê e cenas por trás das câmeras, como novas entrevistas, fotos de arquivo e mais para criar um marco visual na história do jazz moderno.
Islands
Director
The Maysles' third film about the artists sees them trying to get three projects off the ground: wrapping the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris; wrapping the Reichstag; and surrounding eleven man-made islands in Florida with pink plastic sheets. As the latter is the only one that gets approval, it gets the bulk of this film.
Horowitz Plays Mozart
Director
In March 1987, pianist Vladimir Horowitz embarked on an extraordinary project. For the first time in 35 years, he agreed to record with a symphony orchestra in a studio. He chose the conductor, Carlo Maria Giulini, the orchestra, the La Scala Philharmonic, and the location, the Abanella recording studio of La Scala in Milan. Horowitz steadfastly refused to allow the month-long sessions to be filmed, until the evening before the last scheduled session when he unexpectedly changed his mind. His manager, Peter Gelb, immediately telephoned Albert Maysles and Susan Froemke in New York, the co-filmmakers of "Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic." That same night, the Maysles film crew flew from New York.
The House of Mirth
Editor
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...
Running Fence
Director
Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as oblique, non-political (at least, that is what he would claim), and neutral as running a fence through a landscape.
Gimme Shelter
Director
Uma crônica detalhada da famosa turnê dos Estados Unidos de 1969 pela banda de rock britânica The Rolling Stones, que culminou com o show desastroso e trágico realizado em 6 de dezembro no Altamont Speedway Free Festival, um evento de significado histórico, pois marcou o fim de uma era: a geração da paz e do amor tornou-se subitamente a geração da desilusão.
Salesman
Editor
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
Salesman
Director
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
Meet Marlon Brando
Editor
Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by a former winner of the Miss USA competition.
With Love from Truman
Editor
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who displays his exuberant personality, makes witty jokes, shares his thoughts on writing, reflects on various aspects of the book and, in a sweet and endearing voice, reads and explains some of its highlights.
With Love from Truman
Producer
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who displays his exuberant personality, makes witty jokes, shares his thoughts on writing, reflects on various aspects of the book and, in a sweet and endearing voice, reads and explains some of its highlights.
With Love from Truman
Director of Photography
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who displays his exuberant personality, makes witty jokes, shares his thoughts on writing, reflects on various aspects of the book and, in a sweet and endearing voice, reads and explains some of its highlights.
With Love from Truman
Director
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who displays his exuberant personality, makes witty jokes, shares his thoughts on writing, reflects on various aspects of the book and, in a sweet and endearing voice, reads and explains some of its highlights.
Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire
Editor
A documentary on the KKK