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Stop for Bud

12/17/1963

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0hr 12min

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Documentary

,Music

STORY

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Bud Powell
  • Dexter Gordon
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
  • Jørn Elniff
  • Max Brüel

    Directors

  • Jørgen Leth
  • Jens Jørgen Thorsen

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Denmark

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Dexter Gordon

Narrator (voice)

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Himself

Jørn Elniff

Himself

Max Brüel

Himself

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