Murray Lerner — Director (7)

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Festival (1967)
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other title: 페스티벌 / 紐波特音樂節 …
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.

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Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004)
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Murray Lerner actor: 迈尔斯·戴维斯
other title: 一往无前的迈尔斯·戴维斯
关于迈尔斯戴维斯1970年8月在怀特岛音乐节上的传奇演出的纪录片。包括完整的现场录像和最近对乐队队友和其他人的采访。

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Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2010)
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默里·勒纳 actor: 莱昂纳德·科恩 / Joan Baez …
other title: 莱昂纳德·科恩:1970怀特岛音乐节演出实录 / Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight …
Forty summers ago on a windswept island just off England's southern coastline, a young Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen delivered the performance of a lifetime.

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The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 (2007)
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other title: 镜子的另一面:纽波特民歌艺术节1963~1965 / Bob Dylan - Live At the Newport Folk Festival …
"Bob Dylan going electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is one of those epochal moments in rock history that seemingly everyone has heard about, but what few people seem to know is that it wasn't some ephemeral event that we only know from word of mouth -- filmmaker Murray Lerner documented the performances at the Newport Festival for several years running, and The Other Side of the Mirror collects footage from the three years Dylan appeared at the celebrated folk gathering, allowing us to see Dylan's rise through the folk scene for ourselves. Watching Lerner's documentary, what's most remarkable is how much Dylan changed over the course of 36 months; the young folkie performing at the afternoon "workshop" at the side of Joan Baez in 1963 is at once nervy and hesitant, singing his wordy tunes while chopping away at his acoustic guitar and energizing the crowd without seeming to know just what he's doing. In 1964, Dylan all but owns Newport, and he clearly knows it; he's the talk of the Festival, with Baez and Johnny Cash singing his praises (and his songs), and his command of the stage is visibly stronger and more confident while his new material (including "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It Ain't Me, Babe") sees him moving away from the "protest songs" that first made his name. When the audience demands an encore after Dylan's evening set (Odetta and Dave Van Ronk were scheduled to follow him), Peter Yarrow tries to keep the show moving along while Dylan beams at the crowd's adulation, like the rock star he was quickly becoming. By the time the 1965 Newport Festival rolled around, Dylan's epochal "Like a Rolling Stone" was starting to scale the singles charts, and the hardcore folk audience was clearly of two minds about his popular (and populist) success. When Dylan, Fender Stratocaster in hand, performs "Maggie's Farm" backed by Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and the rhythm section from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the raucous but hard-driving number inspires a curious mixture of enthusiastic cheering and equally emphatic booing, and while legend has it that the version of "Like a Rolling Stone" that followed was a shambles, the song cooks despite drummer Sam Lay's difficulty in finding the groove, though if anything the division of the crowd's loyalties is even stronger afterward. After these two numbers, Dylan and his band leave the stage, with Yarrow (once again serving as MC) citing technical problems (if Pete Seeger really pulled the power on Dylan, as legend has it, there's no sign of it here); Dylan returns to the stage with an acoustic six-string to sing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" before vanishing into the night without comment. While much of the audience at Newport in 1965 wanted the "old" Dylan back, his strong, willful performances even on the acoustic stuff makes it obvious that the scrappy semi-amateur we saw at the beginning of the movie was gone forever, and the ovations suggest more than a few people wanted to see Dylan rock. Lerner's film tells us a certain amount of what we already knows, but it gently debunks a few myths about Dylan during this pivotal moment in his career, and his performances are committed and forceful throughout; no matter how many times you've read about Dylan's Newport shoot-out of 1965, seeing it is a revelatory experience, and Lerner has assembled this archival material with intelligence and taste. This is must-see viewing for anyone interested in Dylan or the folk scene of the '60s.

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From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981)
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★ 9.1 80 ratings
默里·勒纳 actor: 艾萨克·斯特恩 / 戴维·戈卢布 …
other title: 从毛泽东到莫扎特 / 从毛泽东到莫扎特:1979年斯特恩在中国 …
艾萨克·斯特恩是世界著名的小提琴大师。在文革结束的1979年,斯特恩作为西方第一位来华演出的小提琴大师,在北京演奏了莫扎特的《G大调第三小提琴协奏曲》。他的此次中国之行被美国最负盛名的音乐家传记片、艺术纪录片导演艾伦·米勒拍摄成新闻纪录电影《从毛泽东到莫扎特》。 此电影获第77届奥斯卡最佳纪录片奖。