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Documentary Filmmaker Stuart Samuels on The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years and Night Flight
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Documentary Filmmaker Stuart Samuels on The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years and Night Flight
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56 minutes
Released:
Apr 27, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Stuart Samuels is an acclaimed academic and a film and television producer, writer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Some of his works include Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography, Midnight Movies: From The Margin to the Mainstream, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years and The Lost Weekend: A Love Story. His works explore the relationship of popular culture to the broader historical context of their times.
Today we’ll dive into his early work - from the groundbreaking late-night music video series Night Flight in the early 80s, to the making of the first HD music videos with Academy Award-winning Polish film and music video director Zbigniew Rybczynski, including John Lennon’s “Imagine.” We’ll also discuss Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years, the Beatles documentary he co-produced with Ron Howard, as well as the making of The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, which premiered earlier this month.
You can find links to Stuart’s work below:
THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Days-Week-Touring-Years/dp/B06XPQ6XW9
STEPS: ZBIG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9fSjL9ERU&t=21s
IMAGINE: ZBIG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXoJ3suYNU
VISIONS OF LIGHT: THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/511323524
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUGLrP_4gw
HOLLYWOODISM: JEWS, MOVIES, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hollywoodism-Jews-Movies-American-Dream/dp/B01MRL4SWL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJMCLLfG6Fg
MIDNIGHT MOVIES: FROM THE MARGIN TO THE MAINSTREAM
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/midnightmovies
THE ORCHESTRA: with Zbig- classical musical videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9fSjL9ERU
In this episode:
*8:10 the backstory of Night Flight
*18:03 Stuart and Zbigniew Rybczynski team up for the first HD music videos
*25:33 The making of The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
*34:00 The documentary “27” that was never released
*35:28 Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years - Stuart’s initial vision vs. Ron Howard’s vision for the documentary
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Today we’ll dive into his early work - from the groundbreaking late-night music video series Night Flight in the early 80s, to the making of the first HD music videos with Academy Award-winning Polish film and music video director Zbigniew Rybczynski, including John Lennon’s “Imagine.” We’ll also discuss Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years, the Beatles documentary he co-produced with Ron Howard, as well as the making of The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, which premiered earlier this month.
You can find links to Stuart’s work below:
THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Days-Week-Touring-Years/dp/B06XPQ6XW9
STEPS: ZBIG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9fSjL9ERU&t=21s
IMAGINE: ZBIG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXoJ3suYNU
VISIONS OF LIGHT: THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/511323524
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUGLrP_4gw
HOLLYWOODISM: JEWS, MOVIES, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hollywoodism-Jews-Movies-American-Dream/dp/B01MRL4SWL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJMCLLfG6Fg
MIDNIGHT MOVIES: FROM THE MARGIN TO THE MAINSTREAM
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/midnightmovies
THE ORCHESTRA: with Zbig- classical musical videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9fSjL9ERU
In this episode:
*8:10 the backstory of Night Flight
*18:03 Stuart and Zbigniew Rybczynski team up for the first HD music videos
*25:33 The making of The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
*34:00 The documentary “27” that was never released
*35:28 Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years - Stuart’s initial vision vs. Ron Howard’s vision for the documentary
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Released:
Apr 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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