Word: filming
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...have seen them on the margins of history: cameras slung over their shoulders, vests bulging with film canisters, heads bent forward as they focus in and fire away. Since the invention of photography 150 years ago, photojournalists have been pointing their lenses at battles, fires, heroes, villains and the world at large. This Special Collector's Edition of TIME celebrates the most memorable images of that visual heritage...
...week the Profile section explores the Woody Allen most fans do not know: Woody Allen, the jazz clarinetist. Though Allen rarely grants interviews to discuss his movies, he readily agreed to talk to senior editor Thomas Sancton about his other career. In the projection room of Allen's Manhattan film center, they discussed music and clarinets for 90 minutes. "Woody Allen is passionate about jazz," says Sancton. "It's not just an eccentric hobby...
Whether or not that ever happens, music has already left a deep mark on Woody's artistic achievement. No one who has seen his films can fail to appreciate how effectively he uses the scores to reinforce the visuals -- from the Gershwin themes of Manhattan to the Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong ballads of Stardust Memories to the brooding Schubert string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never...
Long before young Brooklyn-born Allen Konigsberg had sold his first joke or even dreamed of making a film, he was scouring record stores in search of New Orleans music. Woody first caught the bug at age 14, when he happened to hear a Saturday-morning radio show devoted to Bechet, one of the all-time great clarinet and soprano saxophone players. "I heard it, and it just sounded wonderful," he recalls. "It was sort of like an opening of the dike." With the facility for self-teaching that he would later demonstrate as writer and filmmaker, he laid...
...hobby, he pursues it with the utmost seriousness. He practices religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location, he makes time for the horn. "There have been times when I would film all day long and wouldn't get to my hotel room until 10:30 at night," he says. "So I would get into bed and pull the quilt over my head so I wouldn't offend the neighbors." Missing a single day's practice, says Woody, makes him feel "absolutely...