Re: [F_minor] The GG Trilogy / Richter The Enigma

["pzumst" <pzumst@bluewin.ch>]

I suggest you watch Hereafter anyway to make up your oown mind.

Montsagenon was not joking (or not supervising the dubbing into other 
languages ?) far from it.

Monsagenon joking about anything related to GG is about the same as if 
Richard Dawkins would suddenly convert to Catholicism.

I am going to say this: I didn't like Hereafter very much.

Of course it has its good moments, some of them even touching, one being 
that you get to see f_minor member Junichi Myazawa deliver a long lost 
letter and you get to see a few previously unreleased clips.

But the fact that the director of a documentary shows up in the movie itself 
for quite some lenght to rave with a glow in his eyes on how cool it was to 
hang with GG was a bit annoying, at least for me. That's fanboiism and not 
very objective. As a director of a documentary you should stay behind the 
camera, not in front of it and be a tad bit more critical, even if you are 
able to make a doc about one of your heroes whom you had the chance to meet 
and work with.

Harsh words, I know. I think I can hear someone scream Heresy ! and 
Blasphemy ! somewhere in the back of the crowd, but that's my 2 cents. And 
probably one of the reasons why GG hated critics....

Pat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Morrison" <jmorrison001@satx.rr.com>
To: "'maryellen jensen'" <maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com>; 
<f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:43 AM
Subject: RE: [F_minor] The GG Trilogy / Richter The Enigma


> Thanks for all recent info on the Glenn Gould Trilogy. That set had
> completely slipped under my radar until it came up on the list this week.
> WDR 3 and the Studio Akustische Kunst are experts in and are famous for 
> (if
> one can be for such an esoteric thing) putting together 'acoustic art' 
> akin
> to what Gould was doing with his own radio work, so chances are high this
> will be a first class production.  When I use to live in Germany near
> Cologne I would often tune in to their regular radio shows and I can vouch
> for their work. Purchasing this set is now a no-brainer.
>
>
> I haven't seen Hereafter so I can't comment on the voice-over, but I trust
> Mary's assessment. What's up with Monsaingeon and his choice of people to
> misrepresent Gould? Maybe it really is a kind of joke for him.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
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