2003: A Musical Odyssey 2003 / Down from the Mountain / USA 2000
The musicians who contributed to the success of the Coen brothers’ film O Brother Where Art Thou? on concert tour. Authentic American rural music, blues, bluegrass, gospel, folk.
The Coen brothers’ film O Brother Where Art Thou? possibly had a much greater reception in music circles than among audiences and film critics. The turn-of-the-century American rural music which accompanies the film also did extremely well at the Grammies, winning five awards and being named Discovery of the Year for 2001. A concert tour followed the film’s release, featuring live performances by the musicians involved in the Coen brothers’ film, remarkable purveyors of blues, country, gospel and “old-timey music”, as American wind band music is known. This classic music documentary by D. A. Pennebaker captures the finest hour for various true musical families – in concert with experienced veterans of the spiritual, plus a new generation performing its own version of bluegrass and ballads. For audiences used to stylised, almost theatrical country and western, the film offers a surprising look at civil, unostentatious music and its makers. The film also features the Coen brothers and actress Holly Hunter.
98 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
/ Dir. of Photography Joan Churchill, Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, Bob Neuwirth, Jehane Noujaim, D A Pennebaker, John Paul Pennebaker
/ Editor Nick Doob, D A Pennebaker
/ Producer Bob Neuwirth, Frazer Pennebaker
/ Cast Evelyn Cox, Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox, Willard Cox, Nathan Best, Issac Freeman, Robert Hamlet, Joseph Rice, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, Chris Thomas King a další / and others
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D. A. Pennebaker is one of the greatest classics of the music documentary and cinema verité. He captured Bob Dylan on his first “electric” tour (Don’t Look Back, 1967), he recorded Jimi Hendrix in concert (1967), David Bowie in the role of Ziggy Stardust (1972), and he has made documentaries on Branford Marsalis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and also presidential campaigns in the USA. Film editor and co-scriptwriter Chris Hegedus has been working with Pennebaker since 1967, cameraman Nick Doob since 1983.
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