593. Great Music on Film: Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Speaking about this Canadian classic tributing one of the century's most talented and controversial performers, director François Girard said: "There is no way of putting Gould in one box. The film gives the viewer 32 impressions of him. I didn't want to reduce him to one dimension." With actor Colm Feore playing Gould, the film is a daring and unique blend of multiple cinema formats with plenty of Gould's original recordings. Shot on location in Hamburg, Toronto, Montreal, and Lake Saint Pierre, the film won six international awards and was reviewed in The New York Times as "a brilliant and transfixing cinematic portrait." A melifluous discussion will follow the screening.