Internationally renowned pianist Glenn Gould had all the marks of genius - blinding talent, a craving for perfection and absolute bullheadedness. In Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, director Francois Girard goes directly to the center of Gould's ideas, his passions and his music. Using thirty-two elegantly constructed vignettes, the film span Gould's life from the age of four until his untimely death aged fifty. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould opened in 1993 and won four Genie Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, including Best... Picture and Best Director, as well as a special citation at the 1993 Toronto Film Festival. It has not been available on DVD for many years in the UK and is reissued to commemorate the 30th year since he passed, and the 80th year since his birth. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An expressionistic film biography of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould who shot to fame in the fifties with his recording of Bach&39;s &39;Goldberg Variations&39; and subsequently retired from concert playing live at the end of the sixties The film blends dramatised scenes from his life documentary footage and excerpts from his interviews and his legendary radio documentaries like &39;The Idea Of North&39; The whole film soundtrack is composed of Gould&39;s many piano recordings of Bach Sibelius Wagner and Schoenberg - including Bach&39;s &39;Prelude In D Minor&39; the recording which was one of the artefacts placed on the Voyager probe launched into space to greet other civilisations
An expressionistic film biography of the Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould, who shot to fame in the fifties with his recording of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' and subsequently retired from concert playing live at the end of the sixties. The film blends dramatised scenes from his life, documentary footage, and excerpts from his interviews and his legendary radio documentaries like 'The Idea Of North'. The whole film soundtrack is composed of Gould's many piano recordings of Bach, Sibelius, Wagner and Schoenberg - including Bach's 'Prelude In D Minor', the recording which was one of the artefacts placed on the Voyager probe, launched into space to greet other civilisations.
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