{"id":4827,"date":"2012-05-05T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2012-05-05T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:46:47","slug":"film-music-at-the-tjff-may-5-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4827","title":{"rendered":"Film Music at the TJFF: May 5-12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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'Why do I keep hearing a jazzy piano solo?'<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sat. May 5<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s officially Day 3 of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, today marks the beginning of the film music sidebar series, The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Toronto author & film critic Kevin Courrier begins the series with his FREE talk, Notes and Frames: The Neglected Art of Film Music<\/a><\/strong>, at 1pm at Innis Town Hall. For a taste of Courrier\u2019s insight & humour, the CBC\u2019s archived his talk with Fresh Air\u2019s Mary Ito, which originally aired this morning<\/a> at 7:30am.<\/p>\n

Also at Innis, Courrier\u2019s talk will be followed at 3pm with a FREE screening of the documentary Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann<\/a><\/strong>, which is part of a 4-episode series that ran on PBS and Brava several years ago.<\/p>\n

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Sun. May 6<\/p>\n

Also part of the PBS series is Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound<\/a><\/strong>, which is being introduced by curator Ellie Skrow. The doc screens at the Al Green Theatre at 12pm, and is also FREE.<\/p>\n

Back at Innis, at 3:30pm Canadian composer Mychael Danna will introduce an archival 35mm screening of the original Planet of the Apes<\/a><\/strong>, which features a superb score by Jerry Goldsmith.<\/p>\n

The day\u2019s film music series ends with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s The Conversation<\/a><\/strong>, and composer David Shire will both introduce the film and re-emerge for a discussion & Q&A with Kevin Courrier after the screening.<\/p>\n

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Mon. May 7<\/p>\n

Shire returns for an intro & discussion for a screening of the once impossible-to-see teleplay Evening Primrose<\/a><\/strong> at 3:15pm, at the Al Green Theatre.<\/p>\n

Closing the day at 8:30pm at the Bloor is a rare screening of The Last Butterfly<\/a><\/strong>, based on the novel by Canadian author (and my screenwriting prof) Michael Jacot. In addition to a rarely-seen NBC interview that\u2019ll precede the film, Last Butterfly<\/strong>\u2019s producer, Steven North, will provide an introduction, and will return for a Q&A with myself after the film, focusing on the movie and the film\u2019s composer, Alex North, his amazing father. After the Q&A there\u2019ll be a rare screening of the Emmy Award-winning doc The Gingerbread Revolution<\/a><\/strong>, about Czechoslovakia\u2019s Velvet Revolution which occurred during filming.<\/p>\n

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Wed. May 9<\/p>\n

At 3pm at the Al Green Theatre there\u2019s a screening of the doc Michael Nyman in Progress<\/a><\/strong> + the Howard Shore featurette \u201cA Composer\u2019s Dream,\u201d and at 8pm the theatre will screening Jack Garfein\u2019s Something Wild<\/a><\/strong> (1961), starring Carroll Baker & Ralph Meeker, and featuring a jazzy score by Aaron Copland.<\/p>\n

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Fri. May 11<\/p>\n

At the Al Green Theatre at 4:30pm, I\u2019ll introduce a screening of a rare live TV appearance by American Musical Theatre: Elmer Bernstein<\/a><\/strong> from 1960, plus two Charles & Ray Eames shorts scored by Bernstein: \u201cHouse: After Five Years of Living\u201d and \u201cTops\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Sat. May 12<\/p>\n

The sidebar series\u2019 concludes with a FREE screening of the rarely seen doc Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith<\/a><\/strong> (which comes from a broadcast quality master, not DVD) at the Bloor Cinema. Yes, Goldsmith at the Bloor at 4pm on a big screen with the cinema\u2019s gorgeous new sound system. Somewhere in Heaven co-director Fred Karlin is smiling, and maybe saying \u2018It\u2019s about time!\u2019 He worked hard on the damned thing, and fans will enjoy the plethora of film clips, music clips, and home movie clips of the Composer God who scored Alien<\/strong>, Gremlins<\/strong>, Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/strong>, and guilty pleasures like The Boys from Brazil<\/a><\/strong> and Damnation Alley<\/strong> \u2013 the latter a barely function film if not for a great, grim soundtrack.<\/p>\n

The final program at the Bloor at 7pm (and FREE) is Movie Music: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin<\/a><\/strong>, a doc which joins the composer during a concert tour, and has him reminiscing about his amazing career in jazz, film, and the concert world. If time permits this week, I\u2019ll have a review of his autobiography, but until then, here\u2019s a short interview done at the time of the book\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ve said this before, but this may be the most film music-related material & appearances at one time in Toronto. Even if you\u2019re mildly curious about movie music & its makers, try out a few screenings, because based on the success of this series, it could provoke programmers in T.O. to add film music related content in additional festivals. We have a glut of film festivals, and every culture has its musical heroes. (Yes, I came up with that sappy tag line all by myself.)<\/p>\n

Lastly, do check out the other screenings <\/a>at the TJFF, because there\u2019s a lot of music-related docs that are not or aren\u2019t easily available on home video. There\u2019s nothing worse than missing a film that sounded intriguing in the catalogue, and it never reappears again. Hate that, particularly when you forget the name.<\/p>\n

Skip work, lie about being sick, and pretend you\u2019re \u2018at a conference\u2019 at your discretion (but don\u2019t drag my name into it).<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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Yes, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is on, and today marks the beginning of a major sidebar series on film music. Check out the week’s tally, and plan your week accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[214,846],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1fR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}