9/10
Great insight
31 May 2008
This film documentary offered a great opportunity to peer into the world of the genius that was Amos Vogel.This really was A Brilliant insight into Amos Vogel's ideas and aims in bringing obscure art films to an audience that was ready for some intelligent media and at a time when society was changing and needed feeding with something more than the accepted traditional fare on offer.His Resolute and solid determination to show the films that didn't fit Hollywood's stereotypical outlook of film as a happy pacifier for the public helped art house get established world-wide giving us some great films and Directors that helped to take film forward later on.There are some brilliant moments and anecdotes from Amos Vogel here.The soundtrack was also superb and only afterwards did I discover it was the incredible Jazz musician Orphy Robinson playing some virtuoso solo marimba throughout.There was also Excellent pacing through the majority of the film.Yes we could of done with more footage of the Avante Garde films shown at cinema 16 but what we saw was pretty impressive and made you want to be there..Loved the way the whole film was shot.The director really cared about his subject and made you the viewer have a grandstand view of an important icon of the history of cinema.
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