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When filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker hit the road with Bob Dylan in 1965 to shoot a documentary of the musician's tour of England, he was unaware that he would make history. For one, Pennebaker barely knew who Dylan was. In addition, he couldn't have predicted that his Spartan black-and-white documentary, which eschews traditional storytelling techniques such as narration and interviews, would be hailed as the greatest rock documentary of all time. Forty years after its debut, Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back has been lovingly remastered and will be released this week as a two-disc...
...Lecture Hall D last night to confront the sexism, homophobia and “hyperaggression” that he said features prominently in today’s commercial hip-hop music. In the past year, Hurt’s film on hip-hop has made a tour of the film festival circuit and garnered national media attention. “This film is about hip-hop, but also about manhood, the construction of masculinity, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, corporate media, crass materialism and how it affects all our lives,” said Hurt. “Beyond Beats and Rhymes?...
...industrialist Nahum Guzik. The foundation supports the artistic endeavors of a small group of talented musicians selected by competition. The best of these become Guzik Foundation Award Winners. This year, Ukrainian-born winners Dinara Nadzhafova and Ilya Petrov are coming to Sanders Theatre at Harvard as part of a tour covering major U.S cities, including Chicago, New York, Houston, and Miami. By the age of 10, when most of us were still learning how to add and subtract fractions, Nadzhafova was playing the piano in musical festivals and even snagging first place in a few international competitions...
...Randy Olson, a 1984 graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour in honor of Darwin Day. Olson is the kind of guy who banters about embryology over a hand of poker, and includes his mother, Muffy Moose, in a documentary about evolution versus intelligent design.Olson’s documentary is a hybrid of these two ways of life: armed with...
...dues that you have to pay, and that’s what it is for music.' Jackiw has performed with orchestras around the world. While traveling can be exhausting, Jackiw tries to make the best of it. 'This past summer I spent a month doing a tour of China and Japan, which was amazing. But at the same time, when you’re by yourself for a month, it’s difficult to go out and decide, “Alright, I’m in Beijing, I don’t speak a word of Chinese...