Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
I'm very much the anti-hero in real life, but I compensate madly in my dreams.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 1, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Michele Hozer & Peter Raymont | |
Music Performer: | Glenn Gould | |
Director of Photography: | Walter Corbett | |
Hosted by | Vladimir Ashkenazy, Frances Batchen, Kevin Bazzana, Petula Clark, Victor Feldbrill, Christopher Foss, Cornelia Foss, Eliza Foss, Don Hunstein, Mark Kingwell, Jaime Laredo, John P.L. Roberts, Ray Roberts, Roxolana Roslak, Fred Sherry, Lorne Tulk, Ruth Watson-Henderson & James Wright |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
There are surprises along the way, but the film's purpose is plainly to exalt rather than examine.
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Independent (UK)
3 stars out of 5 -- The music is gloriously distinctive....Highly watchable...
Empire
Rating: 3/5 --
While this is informative, accessible and engaging, it tends to be frustrating and flawed as well.
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Radio Times
Rating: 4/5 --
As much as self-imposed isolation fueled his creative output, Gould had a powerful need to connect with others, and Genius Within explores the difficulties inherent in balancing these impulses.
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The Cinema Girl
Rating: 4/5 --
The film mounts a persuasive case for Gould's phenomenal cultural significance. "The inner life", however, is the one thing we don't really get to explore.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
A documentary packed with fact, verified folklore and faces of former friends and family, subpoenaed to bear witness in interview.
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Financial Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Undoubtedly, Gould was an eccentric and a hypochondriac, but this film argues for his human vulnerability.
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Guardian
Product Description:
Glenn Gould was one of the most celebrated and controversial classical musicians of the 20th century, a pianist whose approach to the work of Bach and Brahms represented a bold and inventive new take on the composers' styles, and whose obsessive quest for perfectionism while rejecting the influence of the audience led him to abandon live performances in favor of recording in 1964, only nine years after the release of his celebrated interpretation of Bach's "Goldberg Variations." While Gould's very public eccentricities have been nearly as well documented as his talents, filmmakers Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont pose a very provocative question in their documentary GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD: Was Gould truly as strange as he was believed to be, or were his quirks part of a facade the artist carefully constructed to intrigue and challenge the listening audience' Hozer and Raymont present rare footage of Gould in performance and in interviews, and examine the private life of the pianist as they explore the facts behind his legendary hypochondria, his drug use, and his relationships with women. GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 738329071929
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