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INTRODUCTION

Comprising a film retrospective, a gallery exhibition, live concerts, and a panel discussion, Score celebrates some of the best original jazz composed for the cinema from the 1950s to the present. The film retrospective opens on April 17 with director Arthur Penn introducing a weeklong theatrical run of his 1965 film Mickey One, featuring and a score by Eddie Sauter with solos by . It continues with fiction and documentary films, and experimental and animated shorts from countries as far ranging as , Brazil, Japan, South Africa, and the . In 1951, ’s music for ’s opened jazz scoring to a new generation of , including , , , , , and . Significantly, this development coincided with the breakup of the Hollywood studio system, and with the commercial and artistic success of inde- pendent film directors like Shadows( , 1959, and Too Late Blues, 1961), (, 1962, and The World, 1964), Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie (Pull My Daisy, 1959), and Herbert Danska (Sweet Love, Bitter, 1968), who experimented not only with dramatic themes and film genres, but also with more improvisational forms of postwar jazz like , , , and Afro-Cuban. This was equally true of New Wave filmmakers and a younger generation of European and Japanese directors in the 1950s and —including , Jean-Luc Godard, Jørgen Leth, American expatriate , , Mikio Naruse, , , and —who enlisted such seminal artists as , , , , and the , , , Tôru Takemitsu, and others to compose jazz scores that would reinforce or provide a counterpoint to their dis- jointed imagery. Jazz continues to be used in diverse ways in contemporary cinema, whether to evoke a writer’s paranoid fantasies in ’s Naked Lunch (1991; music by , solos by Ornette Coleman) or the tragic devastation of , the city that gave birth to jazz itself, in ’s : A Requiem in Acts (2006; music by Terence Blanchard). These collaborations, and others such as those between and , and and John Lurie, are featured in the film retrospective.

Organized by Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film. The exhibition is made possible by The Friends of Education of The and by the Nicholas Martini Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Polish Cultural Institute, , and by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Subtitling services provided by Sub-Ti Ltd. FILMOGRAPHY Arranged chronologically by first screening date. A schedule of film screenings (subject to change) is available at the Underline denotes , followed by notable musicians MoMA Film Lobby Desk or online at www.moma.org/film

Mickey One Kurutta kajitsu (Crazed Fruit) How to Draw a Bunny Alfie 1965. USA. Arthur Penn. 1956. Japan. Kô Nakahira. 2002. USA. John W. Walter. 1966. Great Britain. Lewis Gilbert. Eddie Sauter, Stan Getz Tôru Takemitsu, Masaru Satô , Thursday, April 17, 7:00 (introduced Friday, April 25, 6:30 Wednesday, May 14, 6:15 (introduced Sunday, June 1, 5:00 by Penn) Saturday, May 3, 6:00 by Walter) Wednesday, June 4, 8:00 Friday, April 18, 8:30 Saturday, May 17, 2:30 Saturday, April 19, 3:00 Sunday, April 20, 2:00 The Man with the Golden Arm A Marriage Made in Heaven: A special Monday, April 21, 8:30 1955. USA. . Nóz w wodzie () program of animated jazz shorts from Wednesday, April 23, 8:30 Elmer Bernstein, and 1962. . Roman Polanski. the Hubley Studio (introduced by his Giants Krzysztof Komeda filmmaker Emily Hubley, daughter of John and Faith Hubley, and Ed Berger, Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator The Three Little Bops (The Fat and the Associate Director, Rutgers Institute of to the Gallows) 1957. Friz Freleng. Lean) Jazz Studies). Program includes: 1958. France. Louis Malle. Shorty Rogers 1961. France. Roman Polanski. Adventures of an * Miles Davis, Pierre Michelet, René Krzysztof Komeda Saturday, April 26, 2:30 USA. 1957. Urtreger, , Sunday, April 27, 4:45 Saturday, May 17, 6:00 , Friday, April 18, 6:15 Thursday, May 22, 8:30 Sunday, April 27, 2:30 The Tender Game Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous 1958. USA. Liaisons 1960) Le Départ , 1959. France. Roger Vadim. 1967. . Jerzy Skolimowski. Blues A Date with Dizzy 1961. USA. . Thelonious Monk, and the Krzysztof Komeda, , Gato Jazz Messengers Barbieri, René Urtreger 1958. USA. Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie Saturday, May 3, 8:00 Szlandar (Banner) Begone Dull Care The Hat 1949. Canada. Evelyn Lambart and Sunday, May 4, 5:30 1965. Poland. Miroslaw Kijowicz. Krzysztof Komeda 1964. USA. Norman McLaren. Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson Trio OK End Here Saturday, May 17, 8:30 Urbanissimo 1963. USA. Robert Frank. Thursday, May 22, 6:15 Saturday, April 19, 5:00 1966. USA. Ornette Coleman Wednesday, April 23, 6:15 Benny Carter Pull My Daisy Blow-Up Tijuana Brass Double Feature 1959. USA. Robert Frank and Alfred 1966. Great Britain. Michelangelo 1966. USA. Leslie. Antonioni. 1959. USA. Otto Preminger. and the Tijuana Brass Duke Ellington David Amram Of Men and Demons Vertical Air Herbie Saturday, April 19, 7:15 1968. USA. 1996. USA. Robert Fenz. 1966. USA. Paul Holding and George Saturday, April 26, 5:00 Quincy Jones Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith Lucas. Herbie Hancock Friday, May 9, 6:00 Voyage to Next Sunday, May 11, 4:45 Friday, May 23, 7:00 1974. USA. 1959. USA. . Saturday, May 24, 3:00 Dizzy Gillespie John Lewis, the Modern Jazz Quartet Monday, June 2, 6:30 with Dilemma Tal Farlow 1962. Denmark/South Africa. Henning Sweet Smell of Success 1958/1980. Great Britain. Len Lye. Carlsen. 1957. USA. Alexander Mackendrick. A Bucket of Blood Tal Farlow Max Roach, Gideon Nxumalo Elmer Bernstein, the Chico Hamilton 1959. USA. . Quintet Fred Katz Sunday, April 20, 4:00 Friday, May 9, 8:15 Wednesday, April 30, 8:30 Saturday, May 10, 3:00 Saturday, May 24, 6:00 Pianissimo Sunday, May 11, 2:30 Sunday, May 25, 2:30 1962. USA. D’Avino Monday, May 12, 8:15 Leonard Popkin I Want to Live! Wednesday, May 14, 8:15 Thursday June 5, 6:00 1958. USA. Robert Wise. Thursday, May 15, 6:15 Monday June 9, 6:15 , , Art 1958. USA. . Farmer, Bud Shank, , Henry Mancini The Cool World , Saturday, May 24, 8:00 The Pawnbroker 1964. USA. Shirley Clarke. Sunday, May 25, 5:00 Sunday, April 20, 6:00 , The Dizzy Gillespie 1964. USA. . Wednesday, April 30, 6:00 Quintet: Gillespie, Yusef Lateef, Mal Quincy Jones, , Kenny Waldron, Aaron Bell, Burrell, J.J. Johnson, , The Gauntlet , , Tony Onna ga Kaidan wo agaru toki (A Saturday, May 10, 6:00 1977. USA. Clint Eastwood. Williams Woman Ascends the Stairs) Friday, May 16, 8:15 Jerry Fielding, , , Friday June 6, 6:00 1960. Japan. Mikio Naruse. Sunday, June 8, 2:30 Toshirô Mayazumi Wednesday, May 28, 6:00 The Connection Saturday, May 31, 6:45 Monday, April 21, 6:15 1961. USA. Shirley Clarke. Friday, April 25, 8:30 Freddie Redd, The Jackie McLean In Cold Blood Quartet 1967. USA. Richard Brooks. Bullitt Quincy Jones A Streetcar Named Desire Bridges-Go-Round 1968. USA. Peter Yates. Friday, June 6, 8:30 1951. USA. Elia Kazan. 1958. USA. Shirley Clarke. Lalo Schifrin Sunday, June 8, 5:00 Alex North , Louis and Bebe Barron Wednesday, May 28, 8:15 Thursday, April 24, 6:00 Saturday, May 10, 8:15 Saturday, May 31, 4:00 Monday, April 28, 8:30 Thursday, May 15, 8:15 The Wild One 1953. USA. Laszlo Benedek. The Criminal (The Concrete Jungle) Leith Stevens The Servant Sweet Love, Bitter 1960. Great Britain. Joseph Losey. Saturday, June 7, 2:30 1963. Great Britain. Joseph Losey. 1967. USA. Herbert Danska. , Dudley Moore Wednesday, June 11, 8:15 John Dankworth Mal Waldron Sunday, June 1, 2:30 Thursday, April 24, 8:30 Monday, May 12, 6:15 (introduced by Wednesday, June 4, 6:00 Saturday, April 26, 8:15 Danska) Friday, May 16, 6:15 FILMOGRAPHY CONTINUED

The Organization Too Late Blues (episode from television Les Baisers de secours 1971. USA. Don Medford. 1961. USA. John Cassavetes. show) 1989. France. . Gil Mellé David Raksin, Benny Carter, Red 1959. USA. . Barney Wilen Mitchell Henry Mancini Saturday, June 7, 6:00 Sausage City Thursday, June 12, 8:15 Friday, July 4, 8:15 Staccato (episode from television 1974. USA. Adam Beckett. Sunday, July 6, 5:00 show) Adam Beckett 1959. USA. Joseph Pevney. September The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Elmer Bernstein 1974. USA. Joseph Sargent. Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris) Blues for and Koto 1972. /France. Bernardo 1962. Japan. Geoffrey Selden. Naked Lunch Saturday, June 7, 6:00 Bertolucci. Quincy Jones, , 1991. Canada/Great Britain/Japan. Thursday, June 12, 8:15 Gato Barbieri Geoffrey Selden David Cronenberg. Howard Shore, Ornette Coleman Saturday, July 5, 8:30 Thursday, August 7, 5:45 À bout de souffle (Breathless) Saturday, July 12, 2:30 Sunday, August 10, 5:00 Population Explosion 1959. France. Jean-Luc Godard. 1967. Canada. Pierre Hébert. Ornette Coleman Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) Passing Through Friday, June 13, 6:00 September 1959. Brazil/France/Italy. Marcel 1977. USA. Larry Clark. Sunday, June 15, 2:30 Camus. and The Pan African People’s Antônio Carlos Jobim, Luíz Bonfá Arkestra Kanzo sensei (Dr. Akagi) Échappement libre Friday, July 11, 6:00 Plamuz (Music Art) 1998. Japan. Shohei Imamura. 1964. France. Jean Becker. Sunday, July 13, 2:30 1973. Poland. Zbigniew Rybczynski. Yosuke Yamashita Martial Solal Zbigniew Namysłowski September Sunday, June 15, 5:00 Appunti per un’Orestiade africana Thursday, August 7, 8:15 Monday, June 16, 8:00 Saturday, , 6:00 (Notes for an African Orestes) She’s Gotta Have It 1970. Italy. Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1986. USA. Spike Lee. Sait-on Jamais? (No Sun in ) Gato Barbieri La Menace (The Threat) Bill Lee 1957. France/Italy. Roger Vadim. Water Sark 1977. France. . George Dumpson’s Place John Lewis, The Modern Jazz Quartet 1964-65. Canada. Joyce Wieland. Gerry Mulligan, 1964. USA. Ed Emshwiller. Monday, June 16, 6:00 , Mike Mantler, Jessel Friday, August 8, 6:00 Bill Lee, Jay Berliner, Stuart Scharf Wednesday, June 18, 6:45 Friday, July 11, 8:30 Monday, August 11, 6:00 September Sunday, July 13, 5:00

Sleeper The Cooler When the Levees Broke: A Requiem 1973. USA. . Repulsion 2003. USA. Wayne Kramer. in Four Acts Woody Allen, the New Orleans Funeral 1965. Great Britain. Roman Polanski. Mark Isham 2006. USA. Spike Lee. and Orchestra and the Chico Hamilton Terence Blanchard Preservation Hall Jazz Band Friday, August 8, 8:30 On Fighting Witches Sunday, August 10, 2:30 September Bridgehampton 1966. . Robert Shaye. 1998. USA. John Canemaker. Don Cherry Down by Law Friday, August 1, 6:00 1986. USA/West Germany. Jim Wednesday, July 2, 6:00 Sunday, August 3, 2:30 Jarmusch. Saturday, July 5, 3:00 John Lurie, , , Nana Vasconcelos Jack Johnson Les Valseuses (Going Places) 1970. USA. William Clayton. New York Eye and Ear Control 1974. France. . Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John 1964. USA. Michael Snow. Stéphane Grappelli McLaughlin, Mike Henderson, Wayne , Don Cherry, Michael Snow Wednesday, July 2, 8:30 Shorter, September Saturday, July 5, 6:00 On Animal Locomotion 1994. The Netherlands. Johan van der Keuken. The French Connection Willem Breuker 1971. USA. . CONCERTS Don Ellis Friday, August 1, 8:30 Sunday, August 3, 5:30 Thursday, July 3, 6:00 Saturday, July 12, 8:30 The Tomasz Stanko Quartet with special guest Billy Harper: Tune in Tomorrow… A Concert Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda 1990. USA. Jon Amiel. Monday, May 19, 7:30 P.M. , Marcus Roberts, 1976. USA. . Alvin Batiste A celebration of the film music of Komeda, who helped establish Eastern Europe’s Bernard Herrmann underground jazz scene in the late 1950s and who went on to write the haunting Thursday, July 3, 8:15 Zoo scores for some forty films, including Roman Polanski’sRosemary’s Baby. Stanko, a 1962. The Netherlands. Bert Haanstra. Saturday, July 12, 6:00 Polish trumpeter and composer, and Harper, an American tenor saxophonist, are two Pim Jacobs of the most acclaimed jazz improvisers . Wednesday, August 6, 6:00 Shadows Saturday, August 9, 2:30 1959. USA. John Cassavetes. Shafi Hadi, Martial Solal in Concert A Man Called Adam Saturday, June 14, 7:30 P.M. Stopforbud 1966. USA. Leo Penn. 1963. Denmark. Jørgen Leth and Benny Carter, , Sammy A rare U.S. appearance by one of the world’s most legendary jazz pianists and Ole John. Davis, Jr., Nat Adderley, Mel Tormé Bud Powell composers, perhaps best known for his forty film scores, including Jean-Luc Godard’s Wednesday, August 6, 8:30 À bout de souffle (Breathless, 1959). Solal, who was born in Algeria in 1927 and Friday, July 4, 6:00; Sunday Saturday, August 9, 8:30 settled in Paris in 1950, got his start performing with Reinhardt, Sidney July 6, 2:30 Bechet, and in the 1950s. Soon after, he began writing the scores for films by such master directors as Jean-Pierre Melville, Marcel Carné, Jean Coc- teau, Orson Welles, and Godard.