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Last night Mods and Rockers screened Space Movie, . Before the film, astronaut Buzz Aldrin gave a brief introduction to the evening, encouraging us to continue space exploration. Then director Tony Palmer did a Q&A with organizer Martin Lewis about the making of the film. Brit Palmer encouraged Americans to have more pride in their space heroes. The lagniappe that has become Martin Lewis' trademark...
The Mods and Rockers Film Festival continues tonight with a rare screening of The Space Movie . Directed by Tony Palmer. This 1979 film celebrated the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 landind on the moon. The spacey soundtrack is provided by Mike Oldfield ("Tubular Bells"). The movie will be preceded by footage from NASA's launch this year of the Beatles' song "Across The Universe" into Deep Space. Tony...
All You Need Is Love, a 17-hour celebration of American music and its offspring, hits L.A. Jazzz greats Chalie Bird and Miles Davis are featured in documentary segments playing Hollywoods Egyptian Theater this weekend. And all you thought was about Beatles. British documentary maker Tony Palmer called his 17-hour TV series exploring the origins of American popular music All You Need Is Love, because...
This August sees the fiftieth anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ death, and this has given rise to two films about the composer already this year. After Tony Palmer’s magnificent three hour film O Thou Transcendent shown on Channel Five on New Year’s Day, we get the BBC's offering, The Passions Of Vaughan Williams. It was [...]
From Tony Palmer's recently re-released epic 14-hour History Of Rock TV documentary 'All You Need Is Love', here's Lester Bangs ranting about the ego-fuelled careerist 'vacuity' of glam poseurs Bryan Ferry & David Bowie. The video begins with what appears...
By Barry Garron A little more than 30 years ago, Tony Palmer, a documentary maker for the BBC, set out on one of the most ambitious projects you could imagine. He planned to write a book that would tell the...
Award winning film maker Tony Palmer has created quite the opus with this 17 part series about popular music. It comes in a 5 DVD boxed set, and is an absolute must have for any music fan. Todays music map encompasses a seemingly endless mixture of styles, from a cappella (unaccompanied) to zydeco (A Cajun Louisiana [...]
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I didn’t even know that such a documentary on the times, the swinging 60’s was in the works. It looks like it came out a long time ago. Truly looks like a great time capsule piece. Based on this video clip alone it looks like a great companion piece to all of those concert DVD’s, [...]
When I stopped in at J&R Music today to check out the weekly classical releases, I quickly spied the new DVD of a film by Tony Palmer, 'O Thou Transcendent': The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams. As on old Vaughan...
TransCanada sent a letter today to the state saying legislators could review the company's 2005 natural gas pipeline proposal if they agreed to keep the details confidential. Tony Palmer, vice president of TransCanada's operations in Alaska, said the information in...
For those unable to wait for New Year's Day to watch Tony Palmer's Vaughan Wiliams film on Channel 5 then just go HERE we you can order it. There are lots of other treats there too, including his film on Maria Callas.
That rather leaves open the question of whether somebody at the BBC was doing a very poor copy'n'paste hatchet job of their rejection letters, or whether Tony Palmer has misconstrued or misquoted what was sent to him as being a personal rejection letter f
There has been some righteous indignation in the arts press this week about the philistines at the BBC declining to commission the Tony Palmer film about composer Ralph Vaughan Williams . In The Observer, Mary Riddell was moved to opine that " Our national love of tackiness is killing culture ". Much of the ire has centred around the ludicrous rejection letter that Palmer received from the BBC. As...
