This is a heart-warming, even encouraging film. I saw it this afternoon at the SB Int. Film Festival on the recommendation of a friend. Not a musician, I learned a lot about jazz, about musicians and, especially, about friendship and mentoring. Others have told the story of Clark Terry and Justin Kauflin, so I won't repeat it. What it's really about is friendship and generosity and caring and love. With archival photos as well as scenes from the Montreux Jazz Festival, and made thanks to the generosity of many, including Kickstarter supporters, and especially Quincy Jones, over the course of four years, this first film by the director is a jewel of a film, deserving of wide viewing.
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Rare Bird
(2006)
Beautiful, beautiful film!
3 February 2007
As rare a doc as its rare bird subject, this film is treat. I can think of no way it can be improved and so give it a "10". It's simply beautiful - in story, in photography, in the editing and presenting of the story of the discovery of the Cahow (the Bermuda Petrel) thought to be extinct since 1620. RARE BIRD is the story of that little bird and the people who "discovered" it and are working for its preservation, the seemingly tireless efforts of finding nest burrows, building nests, then relocating chicks to a safer island in the Bermuda group.
It's a lovely film, heartwarming and rewarding --- I hope it gets widely seen in other festivals (I saw it today at the Santa Barbara Int. Film Festival) and that it gets a distributor --- and becomes available in theaters and also as a DVD. I'd like to see it again - and own a copy of the DVD (and I rarely buy DVDs) the film is that good, showing the good that people can do sometimes against seemingly impossible odds.
It's a lovely film, heartwarming and rewarding --- I hope it gets widely seen in other festivals (I saw it today at the Santa Barbara Int. Film Festival) and that it gets a distributor --- and becomes available in theaters and also as a DVD. I'd like to see it again - and own a copy of the DVD (and I rarely buy DVDs) the film is that good, showing the good that people can do sometimes against seemingly impossible odds.
Fascinating, marvellous and heart-warming ...
6 February 2004
This is an amazing apparently unscripted film out of in Mongolia. It's several stories: human family warmth in the bleakness of the storm-swept Gobi desert; the tale of a first-time camel mother and the difficulties of bonding with her calf; the interrelationships. There's no effective and accurate way to describe this movie, no more than words can accurately and fully describe a desert wind storm; it's pure visual showing, letting the images and the limited dialogue speak for themselves.
It's been a hit at film festivals and I hope it gets distribution for wide showing Ñ with luck, it could be another Winged Migration in its appeal.
It's been a hit at film festivals and I hope it gets distribution for wide showing Ñ with luck, it could be another Winged Migration in its appeal.
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