April 14, 2009 (XVIII:13) François Girard, 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD (1993, 98 min)

Directed by...François Girard Produced by...Mikchael Allder and Niv Fichman Screenplay….François Girard and Don McKellar Additional material…Glenn Gould Cinematography...Alain Dostie Editing by...Gaétan Huot All piano performance by…Glenn Gould

Colm Feore...Glenn Gould Derek Keurvorst...Gould's father Katya Ladan...Gould's mother Devon Anderson...Glenn age 3 Joshua Greenblatt...Glenn age 8 Sean Ryan...Glenn age 12 Kate Hennig...Chambermaid Sean Doyle...Porter For excerpt from “Idea of North,” the first part of Gould’s CBS David Hughes...Stagehand “Solitude Trilogy” and links to other CBS Gould items, visit: Allegra Fulton...Waitress http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/music/topics/320-1709/ Gerry Quigley...Music Critic Gale Garnett...Journalist There is a good deal of interesting Gould information and many David Young...Writer useful web links at the Glenn Gould Foundation website: James Kidnie...Photographer www.glenngould.ca. Moynan King...Questioning Woman Michael Kopsa...Broker FRANÇOIS GIRARD (January 12, 1963, St-Felicien, Quebec, Bruno Monsaingeon...Himself (Violin I, Opus #1) Canada) has directed 8 films: Silk (2007), Le Violon rouge/The Red Yehudi Menuhin...Himself Violin (1998), Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of Carceri (1997), Margaret Pacsu...Herself “Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach” (1997), Secret World Live (1994), Jessie Greig...Herself Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), Le Jardin des Megan Smith...Herself ombres (1993), and Cargo (1990). Walter Homburger...Himself Ray Roberts...Himself COLM FEORE (August 22, 1958, Boston, Massachusetts) has 106 Bob Phillips...Himself acting credits, including: The Trotsky (2009, filming), “Guns” Jill R. Cobb...Herself (2008, post-production), “24” (2009), “The Listener” (2009), 24: Bob Sylverman...Himself Redemption (2008), “Widows” (2008), Wargames: The Dead Code Elyse Mach...Herself (2008), Six Reasons Why (2008), Inconceivable (2008), Mario Prozak...Himself Changeling (2008), Le Piège américain (2008), Serveuses Valerie Verity...Herself demandées/Waitresses Wanted (2008), Killing Zelda Sparks Vern Edquist...Himself (2007), Intervention (2007), The Poet (2007), Bury My Heart at Gilles Apap...Himself (Violin II, Opus #1) Wounded Knee (2007), “The American Experience” (2007), Judy’s Jean Marc Apap...Himself (Viola, Opus #1) Got a Gun (2007), Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006), “Battlestar Marc Coppey...Himself (Cello, Opus #1) Galactica” (2006), Burnt Toast (2005), The Exorcism of Emily Irradiated persons: Alain Dostie, François Girard and Jennifer Rose (2005), “Slings and Arrows” (2005), “Empire” (2005), The Jonas Deal (2005), Lies My Mother Told Me (2005), “The Eleventh Hour” (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), “The Newsroom” François Girard, 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD—2

(2004), Paycheck (2003), And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself Voices for Change Part 1 (1993), Constructing Reality: Exploring (2003), National Security (2003), Highwaymen (2003), Chicago Media Issues in Documentary - Shaping Reality (1993), (2002), “Benjamin Franklin” (2002), “Napoléon” (2002), The Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Baroness and the Pig (2002), Point of Origin (2002), The Sum of The Candid Eye? (1993), Constructing Reality: Exploring Media All Fears (2002), Trudeau (2002), Sins of the Father (2002), The Issues in Documentary - What Is a Documentary? Ways of Day Reagan Was Shot (2001), Century Hotel (2001), Lola (2001), Storytelling (1993), Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues The Big Show (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001), Final Jeopardy in Documentary - Voices of Experience, Voices for Change Part 2. (2001), Haven (2001), The Caveman's Valentine (2001), Ignition The Poetry of Motion (1993), In the Key of Oscar (1992), and “The (2001), “Boston Public” (2000), “The West Wing” (2000), The Nature of Things” (1960). Perfect Son (2000), Nuremberg (2000), Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000), “La Femme Nikita” (1998-2000), Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000), The Virginian (2000), “Foreign Objects” (2000), Titus (1999), The Insider (1999), Forget Me Never (1999), Striking Poses (1999), “Storm of the Century” (1999), The Herd (1998), Le Violon rouge/The Red Violin (1998), The Lesser Evil (1998), Airborne (1998), Creature (1998), City of Angels (1998), “Heritage Minute” (1998), Critical Care (1997), The Wrong Guy (1997), Hostile Waters (1997), Face/Off (1997), Night Sins (1997), The Escape (1997), “Liberty! The American Revolution” (1997), “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues” (1995-1996), Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), “The Outer Limits" (1996), “Due South” (1996), The Boor (1996), Where's the Money, Noreen? (1995), Truman (1995), Friends at Last (1995), “Forever Knight” (1995), NIV FICHMAN has 72 producing and 8 directing credits. The The Spider and the Fly (1994), Thirty Two Short Films About former include; The Road to Passchendaele (2008), A Vision of Glenn Gould (1993), “Beyond Reality” (1992-1993), Romeo & Blindness (2008), Passchendaele (2008), Blindness (2008), Dakota Juliet (1993), “Street Legal” (1992), Artemisia (1992), Bethune: (2008), Silk (2007), Snow Cake (2006), Mozartballs (2006), My The Making of a Hero (1990), “War of the Worlds” (1989-1990), Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005), “Slings and Arrows” (2003-2005), Personals (1990), “Friday the 13th” (1989-1990), Beautiful Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Orchestra (2005), Dreamers (1990), II (1988), “Diamonds” (1988), The Beethoven's Hair (2005), Childstar (2004), Clean (2004), The Taming of the Shrew (1988), Blades of Courage (1988), A Nest of Saddest Music in the World (2003), An Idea of Canada (2003), Singing Birds (1987), The Boys from Syracuse (1986), “For the Elizabeth Rex (2003), The Firebird (2003), Perfect Pie (2002), Record” (1981), and “The Great Detective” (1981). Countdown (2002), Ravel's Brain (2001), ~ ~ (2001), “Great Performances” (1996-2001), Legs Apart (2000), This Might Be Good (2000), 24fps (2000), Congratulations (2000), “Foreign Objects” (2000), The Line (2000), Prelude (2000), See You in Toronto (2000), (2000), Camera (2000), A Word from the Management (2000), Le Violon rouge/The Red Violin (1998), Last Night (1998), Bach Cello Suite #6: Six Gestures (1997), Bach Cello Suite #5: Struggle for Hope (1997), Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande (1997), Bach Cello Suite #3: Falling Down Stairs (1997), Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of Carceri (1997), Bach Cello Suite #1: The Music Garden (1997), “Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach” (1997), The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997), A Tale of Tanglewood (1997), Dido & Aeneas (1995), The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs (1995), Solidarity Song: The Hanns Eisler Story (1995), Satie and Suzanne (1994), Fanfares (1994), The Planets (1994), The Sorceress (1993), Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould MICHAEL ALLDER has 25 producing credits: Lost Secrets of (1993), “Concerto” (1993), My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg Ancient Medicine: The Blue Buddha in Russia (2006), Lost Secrets (1992), Tectonic Plates (1992), When the Fire Burns: The Life and of Ancient Medicine: The Journey of the Blue Buddha (2006), Bee Music of Manuel de Falla (1991), John Wyre: Drawing on Sound, Talker (2005), Weight of the World (2003), Beluga Speaking The Radical Romantic: John Weinzweig (1990), A Moving Picture Across Time (2002), Cyberman (2001), Frozen Hearts (1999), The (1989), The Top of His Head (1989), Carnival of Shadows (1989), Ecology of David Suzuki (1999), Turning Down the Heat: The New For the Whales (1989), Eternal Earth (1987), Ravel (1987), World Energy Revolution (1999), The Pill (1999), City of Dark (1997), Drums (1987), Blue Snake (1986), Inner Rhythm (1986), All That The Powder Room (1997), Drowning in Dreams (1997), Project Bach (1985), The Magnificat (1985), Zivjeli! To Life! (1982), and Grizzly (1996), The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald Music for Wilderness Lake (1980). He directed (1994), Fanfares (1994), Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Bach Cello Suite #5: Struggle for Hope (1997), “Yo-Yo Ma Gould (1993), Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Inspired by Bach” (1997), John Wyre: Drawing on Sound (1991), Documentary - The Politics of Truth (1993), Constructing Reality: World Drums (1987), Blue Snake (1986), Inner Rhythm (1986), Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Voices of Experience, Zivjeli! To Life! (1982), and Music for Wilderness Lake (1980). François Girard, 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD—3

ALAIN DOSTIE (September 12, 1943) has 57 cinematography age 3, and as a child he learned the rudiments of music and the credits, among of which are Silk (2007), 15 février 1839/February piano from his mother. He studied theory (1940-7), organ (1942- 15, 1839 (2001), Nuremberg (2000), Elvis Gratton II: Miracle à 9), and piano (1943-52, with Alberto Guerrero) at the Toronto Memphis (1999), The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn (later Royal) Conservatory of Music, earning his Associate Heights (1999), Le Violon rouge/The Red Violin (1998), The diploma, with highest honors, at age 12. From age 5, Gould Assistant (1997), La Vengeance de la femme en noir (1997), The occasionally played in public, on piano and organ, and he Best Bad Thing (1997), Le Confessionnal/The Confessional (1995), competed in a few music festivals, but his parents never subjected Octobre/October (1994), L’Arche de verre/The Glass Ark (1994), him to the life of a star prodigy. He made his professional recital The Planets (1994), Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and concerto debuts in 1947, and by the early 1950s was known (1993), Armen and Bullik (1992), Perfectly Normal (1991), Le across Canada through concert appearances, CBC radio and Party (1990), Dans le ventre du dragon/In the Belly of the Dragon television broadcasts, and recordings. From 1953, he performed (1989), Iron Eagle II (1988), Les Fous de Bassan/In the Shadow of often at the annual Stratford Festival, even serving from 1961 to the Wind (1987), La Magie continue (1986), Elvis Gratton: Le king 1964 as one of its directors of music. des kings (1985), “Empire, Inc.” (1985), Les Années de rêves/The Years of Dreams and Revolt (1984), The Gunrunner (1984), Au In January 1955, Gould made his American debut, with recitals in pays de Zom (1983), Le Confort et l'indifférence/Comfort and Washington, D.C., and New York. His unorthodox programme Indifference (1982), Métier: Boxeur (1981), Les Voleurs de (Sweelinck, Gibbons, Bach, late Beethoven, Berg, and Webern), Job/Where Dollars Grow on Trees (1980), Jornaleros (1978), distinctive piano style, idiosyncratic interpretations, and unusual Santa Gertrudis, la première question sur le bonheur (1978), Le platform mannerisms marked him as an iconoclast. The day after Soleil se lève en retard/The Late Blossom (1977), On est au his New York debut, he signed a contract with Columbia Records, cotton/Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1976), Pour le meilleur et pour le for whom he recorded exclusively thereafter. His first recording, of pire/For Better or Worse (1975), Les Vautours/The Vultures Bach's Goldberg Variations, was released in 1956 to critical and (1975), Gina (1975), Images de Chine/Glimpses of China (1974), popular acclaim, and brought him international attention. For the Ping-pong (1974), Réjeanne Padovani (1973), Tendresse next nine years, he lived the life of a touring virtuoso. He gave ordinaire/Ordinary Tenderness (1973), Québec: Duplessis et concerts throughout North America, and between 1957 and 1959 après... (1972), La Maudite galette/Dirty Money (1972), Hard made three overseas tours, playing in the U.S.S.R., Western Rider (1972), Le Reel du pendu (1972), Why I Sing (1972), On est Europe, , and London, earning praise and arousing loin du soleil (1971), Le Martien de Noël/The Christmas Martian controversy wherever he went. His eccentric character, both on (1971), Ainsi soient-ils (1970), 10 Miles/Hour (1970), Hôtel- stage and off, provoked nearly as much comment as his playing, Château (1970), With Drums and Trumpets (1969), Le Beau and he was the subject of colorful publicity from the beginning of plaisir/The Beluga Days (1968), Épisode (1968), La Semaine his career. In 1964, Gould retired permanently from public dernière pas loin du pont (1967), 9 minutes (1967), Better Housing performance, citing temperamental, moral, and musical objections for British Columbia (1967), and Jeux de Québec 1967 (1967). to the concert medium. He went on to become an outspoken champion of the electronic media -- of studio recording, broadcasting, and film-making. He made scores of recordings, acquiring theoretical and practical insights into the recording medium unusual for a classical performer. He made countless radio and TV programs for the CBC, conventional recitals as well as talk-and-play shows on particular themes. In the 1960s and 70s, he made seven innovative "contrapuntal radio documentaries" -- evocative tapestries of sound that blended elements of documentary, drama, and musical composition. Four were portraits of musicians he admired, the others a fascinating "Solitude Trilogy" about people living in isolation: The Idea of North (1967); The Latecomers (1969), about Newfoundland; and The Quiet in the Land (1977), about Mennonites in Manitoba. Gould also made programs for the BBC (Conversations with Glenn Gould, 1966), and for French and German television (Chemins de la musique, 1974; Glenn Gould Plays Bach, 1979-81).

Gould was prolific as a writer, especially after 1964; he explored many musical and non-musical topics in record-liner notes, periodical articles and reviews, scripts for broadcasts and films, Kevin Bazzana, Glenn Gould: An Extended Biography interviews, and, in the early 1960s, a few public lectures. He By Kevin Bazzana (“The Man” on The Glenn Gould composed from childhood, and was particularly active in his teens, Foundation website, www.glenngould.ca.) when he wrote piano pieces, a bassoon sonata, and many unfinished works. His only major composition is the long, one- Glenn Herbert Gould was born on September 25, 1932, in Toronto, movement String Quartet, Opus 1, composed 1953-1955 and later which would be his home for the rest of his life. (The family's published and recorded. From the beginning of his concert career, original surname, Gold, was changed around 1939.) Gould's he spoke often of quitting performing in order to devote himself to prodigious musical gifts, including perfect pitch, were apparent by composition, but after the String Quartet he completed few works, François Girard, 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD—4 mostly humorous occasional pieces. He arranged music for two and the Canadian feature film Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn feature films: Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) and The Wars (1982). Gould (1993). Whole conferences have been devoted to Gould -- two in Toronto (1992 and 1999), others in Montreal (1987), Gould was one of the most Amsterdam (1988), and Groningen, The Netherlands (1992) -- and unconventional classical there have been many smaller exhibitions, film festivals, and other musicians of modern times. Gould events around the world. An international Glenn Gould His repertoire was highly Society was based in Groningen from 1982 to 1992, and published selective: he played few of a semi-annual Bulletin. The Glenn Gould Foundation, created in the early-Romantic and Toronto in 1983, has since 1987 awarded a triennial Glenn Gould impressionistic works at the Prize in music and communications; in 1995 it formed an core of the piano repertoire, international Friends of Glenn Gould society, with its own semi- preferring Baroque, annual journal, GlennGould. Gould was much honoured during his Classical, late-Romantic, and lifetime -- for example, he received the Harriet Cohen Bach Medal 20th-century music, mostly (1959), a doctorate from the University of Toronto (1964), the by Austro-German Canada Council's Molson Prize (1968), the Canadian Conference composers; he also played of the Arts' Diplome d'honneur (1976), and the Canadian Music Elizabethan music, Council Award (1981) -- and has posthumously received awards transcriptions, and a few and tributes of many kinds, from cultural institutions and from works by Canadians. He every level of government. His papers and personal effects are played Bach and Schoenberg, housed at the National Library of Canada, in Ottawa, and in the the composers most central to his repertoire and aesthetic, with Canadian Museum of Civilization, in Hull. particular authority. He upset many conventions of piano-playing, as with his fondness for detached articulation, but he was widely In the years since his death, Gould has proven to be one of admired for his virtuosity, probing intellect, command of musical Canada's most important and influential cultural figures, and one architecture, rhythmic dynamism, precise fingerwork, and clarity of the world's most popular, admired, and intensely studied of counterpoint. Believing that the performer's role was properly classical musicians. creative, Gould offered original, deeply personal, sometimes shocking interpretations (extreme tempos, odd dynamics and THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988, are a set of an aria and phrasing) that have always been controversial, particularly in well- 30 variations for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. First known works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. published in 1741 as the fourth in a By age fifty, Gould claimed to have largely exhausted the piano series Bach called literature that interested him, and turned to a new interest: Clavier-Übung, conducting. In 1982, he made a chamber-orchestra recording -- as "keyboard unusual as any of his piano recordings -- of Wagner's Siegfried practice", the work Idyll, and he had ambitious plans for at least several years' worth is considered to be of conducting projects, some of them to be associated with films. one of the most After that, he planned to give up performance entirely and devote important himself to writing and composing, perhaps retiring to the examples of countryside. But on September 27, 1982, shortly after the release variation form. It of a new recording of the Goldberg Variations, Gould suffered a is named after massive stroke. He died, in Toronto, on October 4. Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who Since his death, Gould's international fame has grown steadily, and may have been the his work has been widely disseminated. His writings, interviews, first performer. and letters have been collected and translated. In 1992, Sony (from Wikipedia) Classical began releasing his live and studio recordings, films, and broadcasts in two comprehensive series: the Glenn Gould Edition, Recordings of the Goldberg Variations: Before Gould’s 1955 on CD (eight volumes with more than 70 CDs); and the Glenn and 1983 New York recording of the Goldberg Variations the best Gould Collection, on videotape and laserdisc (sixteen hour-long known recordings were probably the November 1933 Paris and volumes). Also in 1992, CBC Records began releasing some of his 1945 sessions by Wanda Landowska on harpsichord. There are radio documentaries and early broadcast performances (to date, dozens of other recordings, most on piano or harpsichord, but they eleven CDs). In 1995, the German music publisher Schott have also been scored for an recorded on guitar, strings, accordion, undertook an edition of his compositions. organ, marimba and harp. A downloadable 48-minute video of Gould playing the Goldberg Variations is online at Gould has posthumously been the subject of a large and diverse http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6984208089899995423 collection of literature, not only in English: many publications in (this is shot at 1.33 frame ratio; to be sure you’re seeing the entire French, German, Italian, Japanese, and other languages demonstra image, resize the frame until you see the black bars on either side te a passionate international following. Countless radio and TV of GG). broadcasts have been devoted to him, and he has inspired novels, plays, musical compositions and arrangements, poems, visual art, François Girard, 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD—5

recording studio, he listens to a piece of music twice, and then Roger Ebert in th Chicago Sun-Times: says, "I think we might really have something there." The movie How to suggest an actual human life on film? Most biopics shape does not deliver, or suggest, a rounded life story. But it leaves us the enigmatic events of life into the requirements of fiction, so that with a much richer idea of his life than a conventional biopic might most lives seem the same, and only the professions and the time have. We see the young Gould at his piano (from childhood, he periods change. François Girard’s "Thirty Two Short Films about always fancied a stool just 14 inches off the ground, placing his Glenn Gould" brilliantly breaks with tradition and gives us a movie eyes not far above finger-level). And we see him listening that actually inspires us to think about what it was like to be this intensely to a radio broadcast of a concert. Our imagination is man. Glenn Gould (1932-1982), born in Toronto, could play and challenged to feel the music entering him. There are other read music before he was four years old. Taught only by his episodes, some as mundane as a telephone call to a friend, others mother until he was 10, he was soon giving concerts in Canada and as startling as that last concert in 1964, where he soaks his hands in the United States, where Leonard Bernstein was one of his warm water, then walks slowly through backstage corridors, admirers. He became one of the great concert pianists of his time, hesitates before walking on stage, and signs a stagehand's program, and then, on April 10, 1964, without advance notice, he gave his adding the words, "the last concert." Some of the "short films" last concert and refused to perform in public ever again.That was show episodes from a life. Some show ideas inspired by the music. not the end of his career but the beginning of an extraordinary Some are the documentary testimony of friends, including Yehudi second career, in which he channeled all of his efforts into making Menuhin, who talk with the warm recollection they might use at a recordings. His choice of the recording studio over the concert memorial service. One brief sequence simply shows Gould sitting stage was explained in different ways at different times; he didn't in a chair, listening. We gather he became a hermit of sorts, but a like the idea of a performer upstaging contented one, doing what he loved. the music, he would say, or he could The movie makes no suggestions at not abide the idea that some people in all about his sexual life, does not the audience had better seats than deal in gossip, and seems almost others. He stayed at home, in Toronto proud of its outsider's recording studios and hotel rooms, viewpoint. The filmmakers do not cultivating a benign eccentricity, claim to know the secrets of Glenn talking to his friends endlessly on the Gould, but only to be fascinated by telephone but sparingly in person. And them. The notes with the movie he left behind a rich recorded legacy, recall that when one of the including his performances of Bach's producers, Barbara Willis-Sweete, Goldberg Variations (one of Gould's was working in the late 1970s as a Bach performances has since left the bartender at the hotel where Gould solar system on board Voyager One). was living, she followed him late one Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn night as he left with a large bag. He Gould was inspired by the Goldberg eventually dropped it in a garbage Variations, and is a series of brief can, and she retrieved it, to find it vignettes suggesting variations on the contained only old newspapers. The actor's life. Colm Feore plays the point of this story, I think, is not pianist, as a calm, physically what the bag contained, but that the economical man whose most highly bartender followed him. The film is developed sense, we feel, is his made in something of the same hearing. There is a scene midway in spirit, as if the filmmakers admire the film where Gould enters a roadside Gould's work, are puzzled by his life, diner where he is apparently a familiar and want to follow him, face. As he waits for his eggs to arrive, unobserved. They discover no great he listens to the conversations around answers or revelations, but by the him, and the soundtrack pieces these end of the film they, and we, have a words of strangers together in such an remarkable impression of a life lived intense way that we listen, too. In curiously, but well. (29 April 1994) another scene, he asks a hotel chambermaid to listen to a recording, and then he judges its effect upon her. Again, in a

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ONE MORE TO GO IN BUFFALO FILM SEMINARS XVIII: April 21 Pedro Almodóvar ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER/TODO SOBRE MI MADRE 1999

This week in 3 x 3 @ AKAG, Thursday Evenings at the Albright-Knox, 7:30 p.m.: Yasujiro Ozu’s TÔKYÔ MONOGATARI/TOKYO STORY, 1949. For more information go to http://3x3.cc François Girard, 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD—6

PRELIMINARY SCREENING SCHEDULE FOR BUFFALO FILM SEMINARS XIX, FALL 2009:

Sept 1 Mark Sandrich Top Hat 1935 Sept 9 Raoul Walsh High Sierra 1941 Sept 16 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Black Narcissus 1947 Sept 23 Jules Dassin Rififi 1955 Sept 30 Kenji Misoguchi Akasen chitai/Street of Shame 1956 Oct 6 Richard Brooks Elmer Gantry 1960 Oct 13 Roman Polanski Knife in the Water 1962 Oct 20 Stanley Kubrick Lolita 1962 Oct 27 Carl Theodor Dreyer Gertrud 1964 Nov 3 Eric Rohmer My Night at Maude’s 1969 Nov 10 Andrei Tarkovsky Solaris 1972 Nov 17 Arthur Penn Night Moves 1975 Nov 24 Ridley Scott Blade Runner 1982* Dec 1 Bela Tarr Werkmeister Harmonies 2000 Dec 8 Mike Leigh Topsy-Turvey 1999

*We’ve been trying to get Blade Runner since we started Buffalo Film Seminars in 1999, but prints have never been available. A new version, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, was released into limited distribution in 2007 in both 35mm and digital versions. We’re hoping to get one of those. We’ll tune the list of films as try to book the others. We’ll send an email to the list once the bookings are final and, as always, we’ll post the confirmed list on the Buffalo Film Seminars web site.

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