It is fair to assume Criterion could plunder the world of licensed film to build an ultimate noir playlist; credit, then, for focusing sharp and nabbing deep cuts. The Criterion Channel’s November / Noirvember program will be headlined by “Fox Noir,” an eight-title program with Otto Preminger deep cut Fallen Angel, three by Henry Hathaway, Siodmak, Dassin, Kazan, and Robert Wise, and while retrospectives of Veronica Lake and John Garfield will bring some canon into the fold, I’m mostly thinking about that potential for discovery.
Following “Free Jazz,” Bob Hoskins, and Joyce Chopra programs, the other big series is a 30-year survey of Sony Pictures Classics: Sally Potter, Satoshi Kon, Panahi, Errol Morris, Almodóvar, Haneke, Mike Leigh, just a murderer’s row. Streaming premieres include 499 and A Night of Knowing Nothing, two recent epitomes of I Wish I Had Seen That; Criterion Editions comprise Cure, Brazil, Sullivan’s Travels,...
Following “Free Jazz,” Bob Hoskins, and Joyce Chopra programs, the other big series is a 30-year survey of Sony Pictures Classics: Sally Potter, Satoshi Kon, Panahi, Errol Morris, Almodóvar, Haneke, Mike Leigh, just a murderer’s row. Streaming premieres include 499 and A Night of Knowing Nothing, two recent epitomes of I Wish I Had Seen That; Criterion Editions comprise Cure, Brazil, Sullivan’s Travels,...
- 10/26/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
A banjo-playing Jerry Garcia and mandolinist David Grisman met in 1964 at a bluegrass gathering in West Grove, Pa. Both were very talented and loved folk and traditional music. Including forming a band in the '70s and producing several albums in the '90s, their friendship endured until Garcia's death in 1995.
Separate from and in crucial ways interwoven with his larger-than-life role as leader of The Grateful Dead, the numerous collaborations between Garcia and Grisman are the focus of Sony Pictures Classics' unpretentiously entertaining documentary "Grateful Dawg", a limited release that screened recently at the Toronto International Film Festival after bowing as a work-in-progress at the 2000 Mill Valley (Calif.) fest. New York-based filmmaker Gillian Grisman, daughter of executive producer Grisman and former video archivist for the Dead, makes no claims of objectivity, and "Dawg" -- with much more "handmade" music than talking and no probing journalistic agenda -- is first and foremost an homage to her father (whose 178-title discography takes up seven pages of the film's media kit) and rock legend Garcia.
Along with concert footage and curios like a previously unreleased 1991 music video of "The Thrill Is Gone", "Dawg" includes informal but watchable video footage that Gillian Grisman and Justin Kreutzmann (son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann) took of the musicians in the studio and in more relaxed situations like the elder Grisman's living room.
From the creation of the bluegrass group Old and in the Way to Grisman's contributions to such Deadhead faves as "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple", the film's subject matter is educational for fans of Garcia. Likewise, many a neophyte of the duo's music will get into such elaborate, beautiful creations as the 17-minute opus "Arabia", a rendition of Jimmy Cliff's "Sittin' Here in Limbo" and a slowed-down version of "Friend of the Devil".
Although there were periods when Garcia and Grisman did not work together, with both having many other projects through the years, a consistent theme of "Dawg" is how these "beards of a feather" complemented each other creatively and even grew to look alike. Among the 20 or so interviewees and participants seen in archival footage is Garcia's widow Deborah Koons Garcia, credited as the film's creative consultant.
GRATEFUL DAWG
Sony Pictures Classics
Acoustic Disc,
11th Hour Productions & Entertainment
Producer-director: Gillian Grisman
Executive producers: Craig Miller, David Grisman
Editor: Josh Baron
Creative consultant: Deborah Koons Garcia
Color/stereo
With: Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Running time -- 80 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Separate from and in crucial ways interwoven with his larger-than-life role as leader of The Grateful Dead, the numerous collaborations between Garcia and Grisman are the focus of Sony Pictures Classics' unpretentiously entertaining documentary "Grateful Dawg", a limited release that screened recently at the Toronto International Film Festival after bowing as a work-in-progress at the 2000 Mill Valley (Calif.) fest. New York-based filmmaker Gillian Grisman, daughter of executive producer Grisman and former video archivist for the Dead, makes no claims of objectivity, and "Dawg" -- with much more "handmade" music than talking and no probing journalistic agenda -- is first and foremost an homage to her father (whose 178-title discography takes up seven pages of the film's media kit) and rock legend Garcia.
Along with concert footage and curios like a previously unreleased 1991 music video of "The Thrill Is Gone", "Dawg" includes informal but watchable video footage that Gillian Grisman and Justin Kreutzmann (son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann) took of the musicians in the studio and in more relaxed situations like the elder Grisman's living room.
From the creation of the bluegrass group Old and in the Way to Grisman's contributions to such Deadhead faves as "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple", the film's subject matter is educational for fans of Garcia. Likewise, many a neophyte of the duo's music will get into such elaborate, beautiful creations as the 17-minute opus "Arabia", a rendition of Jimmy Cliff's "Sittin' Here in Limbo" and a slowed-down version of "Friend of the Devil".
Although there were periods when Garcia and Grisman did not work together, with both having many other projects through the years, a consistent theme of "Dawg" is how these "beards of a feather" complemented each other creatively and even grew to look alike. Among the 20 or so interviewees and participants seen in archival footage is Garcia's widow Deborah Koons Garcia, credited as the film's creative consultant.
GRATEFUL DAWG
Sony Pictures Classics
Acoustic Disc,
11th Hour Productions & Entertainment
Producer-director: Gillian Grisman
Executive producers: Craig Miller, David Grisman
Editor: Josh Baron
Creative consultant: Deborah Koons Garcia
Color/stereo
With: Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Running time -- 80 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
A banjo-playing Jerry Garcia and mandolinist David Grisman met in 1964 at a bluegrass gathering in West Grove, Pa. Both were very talented and loved folk and traditional music. Including forming a band in the '70s and producing several albums in the '90s, their friendship endured until Garcia's death in 1995.
Separate from and in crucial ways interwoven with his larger-than-life role as leader of The Grateful Dead, the numerous collaborations between Garcia and Grisman are the focus of Sony Pictures Classics' unpretentiously entertaining documentary "Grateful Dawg", a limited release that screened recently at the Toronto International Film Festival after bowing as a work-in-progress at the 2000 Mill Valley (Calif.) fest. New York-based filmmaker Gillian Grisman, daughter of executive producer Grisman and former video archivist for the Dead, makes no claims of objectivity, and "Dawg" -- with much more "handmade" music than talking and no probing journalistic agenda -- is first and foremost an homage to her father (whose 178-title discography takes up seven pages of the film's media kit) and rock legend Garcia.
Along with concert footage and curios like a previously unreleased 1991 music video of "The Thrill Is Gone", "Dawg" includes informal but watchable video footage that Gillian Grisman and Justin Kreutzmann (son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann) took of the musicians in the studio and in more relaxed situations like the elder Grisman's living room.
From the creation of the bluegrass group Old and in the Way to Grisman's contributions to such Deadhead faves as "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple", the film's subject matter is educational for fans of Garcia. Likewise, many a neophyte of the duo's music will get into such elaborate, beautiful creations as the 17-minute opus "Arabia", a rendition of Jimmy Cliff's "Sittin' Here in Limbo" and a slowed-down version of "Friend of the Devil".
Although there were periods when Garcia and Grisman did not work together, with both having many other projects through the years, a consistent theme of "Dawg" is how these "beards of a feather" complemented each other creatively and even grew to look alike. Among the 20 or so interviewees and participants seen in archival footage is Garcia's widow Deborah Koons Garcia, credited as the film's creative consultant.
GRATEFUL DAWG
Sony Pictures Classics
Acoustic Disc,
11th Hour Productions & Entertainment
Producer-director: Gillian Grisman
Executive producers: Craig Miller, David Grisman
Editor: Josh Baron
Creative consultant: Deborah Koons Garcia
Color/stereo
With: Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Running time -- 80 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Separate from and in crucial ways interwoven with his larger-than-life role as leader of The Grateful Dead, the numerous collaborations between Garcia and Grisman are the focus of Sony Pictures Classics' unpretentiously entertaining documentary "Grateful Dawg", a limited release that screened recently at the Toronto International Film Festival after bowing as a work-in-progress at the 2000 Mill Valley (Calif.) fest. New York-based filmmaker Gillian Grisman, daughter of executive producer Grisman and former video archivist for the Dead, makes no claims of objectivity, and "Dawg" -- with much more "handmade" music than talking and no probing journalistic agenda -- is first and foremost an homage to her father (whose 178-title discography takes up seven pages of the film's media kit) and rock legend Garcia.
Along with concert footage and curios like a previously unreleased 1991 music video of "The Thrill Is Gone", "Dawg" includes informal but watchable video footage that Gillian Grisman and Justin Kreutzmann (son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann) took of the musicians in the studio and in more relaxed situations like the elder Grisman's living room.
From the creation of the bluegrass group Old and in the Way to Grisman's contributions to such Deadhead faves as "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple", the film's subject matter is educational for fans of Garcia. Likewise, many a neophyte of the duo's music will get into such elaborate, beautiful creations as the 17-minute opus "Arabia", a rendition of Jimmy Cliff's "Sittin' Here in Limbo" and a slowed-down version of "Friend of the Devil".
Although there were periods when Garcia and Grisman did not work together, with both having many other projects through the years, a consistent theme of "Dawg" is how these "beards of a feather" complemented each other creatively and even grew to look alike. Among the 20 or so interviewees and participants seen in archival footage is Garcia's widow Deborah Koons Garcia, credited as the film's creative consultant.
GRATEFUL DAWG
Sony Pictures Classics
Acoustic Disc,
11th Hour Productions & Entertainment
Producer-director: Gillian Grisman
Executive producers: Craig Miller, David Grisman
Editor: Josh Baron
Creative consultant: Deborah Koons Garcia
Color/stereo
With: Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Running time -- 80 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 10/5/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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