Jazz_Ken Burns

 

‘Jazz’ directed by Ken Burn, a 2001 TV series has a running time of around 19 hours.

It almost covers up the who’s who of Jazz including Sidney Bechet, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbeche, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkings, Lester Young, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Ben Webster, Miles Davies, Paul Desmond, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz.  

A good reference point to enter the world of Jazz.

Chantal Akerman__Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (The Meetings of Anna)__1978

Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (The Meetings of Anna) is a 1978 French-Belgian-West German film. 

Nothing happens. Nothing major happens, except one begins to realize that life is bits and pieces of micro incidents, sprinkled with emptiness and meaninglessness, that adds up to macro existentialist crisis.

 

Life offers a plethora of choices. You choose one or some of them, you reject or deny some, you yearn for some other choices or you are yet to know what to choose. At the end, whatever you choose, (or don’t choose) - you come to terms with the futility of it all. 

 

It’s an appropriate existentialist movie for loners, people who are comfortable with their lonesomeness. They can relate to this work better than the socialites.

 

To ease perhaps some music like Don Giovanni’s K527 Sinfonia by Mozart was added, so that the viewer might cheer up.

     
                                        For others – Stay away!