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	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, released in 1993, is an award-winning movie about the famous piano prodigy Glenn Gould.
		The film consists of a mixture of documentary shorts (five interviews with people who knew him), re-creations of scenes from Gould's life (with actor Colm Feore as Gould), and various odd items (such as Gould Meets McLaren, where animated spheres move to Gould's music).
		An episode of The Simpsons, "22 Short Films About Springfield" (April 16, 1996), had its title inspired by this film along with its vignette-based narrative structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirty_Two_Short_Films_About_Glenn_Gould (278 words)

	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The surprise here is that the movie proves to be less about Gould the man than his passion for his art, though some of his peculiarities are certainly put on display.
		But Gould is perhaps most famous for abandoning live performances in favor of working doggedly in the studio on his meticulous recordings, a decision that would seem to fly in the face of what most musicians express about keeping music fresh and alive.
		In fact, "Thirty Two Short Films" is in truth more about the music than the man, reaching some sort of zenith when segments focus on his distinctive style, with fascinating visuals devoted to the inner workings of a piano or the sound-track itself.
	deseretnews.com /movies/reviews/ip0u468p.htm (309 words)

	Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada: Thirty-Two Short Films About Glen Gould. - movie reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is unique, a funny, imaginative and provocative take on Gould, the eccentric genius who kept his private life hidden yet somehow kept the media hopping with stories and speculations about him anyway.
		Glenn Gould is divided into thirty-two short vignettes, a number that comes from the structure of his famous 1955 rendition of J.S. Bach's The Goldberg Variations.
		Gould's was essentially an undramatic life, it seemed to me to be totally inapropriate [as a film].
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	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould' will not appeal to everybody: it is not a traditionally narrative biographical documentary, and it will not present much in the way of the facts of Gould's existence.
		Gould's passions, quirks, and personality are presented with Colm Feore's decent likeness and obviously very thoroughly researched character development.
		Story takes a back seat to image and music, and the result for the audience is a feel for the persona of Glenn Gould, rather than the story of his life.
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	Review: Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Canadian musician and composer Glenn Gould was born in Toronto in 1932.
		Gould became one of the world's most renowned classical performers, making more than 60 recordings, as well as working in the fields of publishing, conducting, radio and television broadcasting, and scoring feature films.
		Gould died of a stoke in 1982 at the age of 50.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/thirty_two.html (583 words)

	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Formalistically, this is an attempt at a fragmented, nonnarrative portrait of the life of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould who is as famous for his eccentricity and his refusal to perform live as for his brilliant if debated recordings of works such as Bach´s Goldberg Variations.
		Rather, the film shows us phases and stages of his life, from his childhood to his career as a concert performer, his hobbies - the stock market, humour, travel, and experimental radio broadcasts - and his last days, when he complained to friends and relatives of his apprehension of death.
		With the advent of the suggestion that Gould suffered from Aspberger´s Syndrome (a neurological disorder with similarities to autism), some of my students were interested in learning more about people with this disability, especially their afflicted classmates.
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	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
		Glenn Gould was born in Toronto, Canada in 1932.
		Gould's mother, who introduced him to the piano by playing the instrument incessantly while pregnant with him, remained his only music teacher for the first ten years of his life.
		Many of the short films present Gould's intensity and passion for music and life, while other segments show his reflective, introspective nature.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/thirtytwoshortfilmsaboutglenngould.html (412 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Glenn Gould (1932-1982), born in Toronto, could play and read music before he was four years old.
		"Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" was inspired by the Goldberg Variations, and is a series of brief vignettes suggesting variations on the actor's life.
		The film is made in something of the same spirit, as if the filmmakers admire Gould's work, are puzzled by his life, and want to follow him, unobserved.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19940429/REVIEWS/404290306/1023 (773 words)

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		Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was, of course, that great Canadian musician, a world-class pianist who made his public debut at age 14 and quickly went from "wunderkind" to international superstar.
		In 1964, after nine years of concertizing, Gould suddenly announced that he would stop playing in public and concentrate on making recordings, for reasons that struck many as extravagant, but which were, by Gould's reasoning, entirely cogent.
		On the other hand, segments about Gould's pills, all-night phone calls to friends (some of whom never met in person), or succinct, illuminating interviews with friends (Yehudi Menuhin, French violinist Bruno Monsaingeon, et al.) are crystal clear.
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	Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould, Review by Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.
		Gould is portrayed by Colm Feore, who bears him little physical resemblance, yet uncannily projects his lapidary intelligence, antic humor, and schizoid defensiveness.
		Gould's ornery insistence on calling his own shots reached a morbid zenith in extravagant self-medicating for a plague of ills, hypochondriacal and actual.
		Having discovered as much about him as one could in so brief a space, one might speculate glibly about the roles played by enormous native giftedness, by immense intellect, and by a possibly constitutional hypersensitivity to a wide range of stimuli in the construction of both madness and masterwork.
	doctorgreenberg.net /32shortfilms.htm (1862 words)

	Canadian Journal of Film Studies: LOCATING THE ARTIST IN THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD
		It is the contrapuntal relation between these elements-the image of pianist, composer, and broadcaster Glenn Gould as eccentric and the Apollonian striving for transcendence in his art-that is the challenge of his cinematic representation.
		What Francois Girard's film, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Canada, 1993), achieves is interesting for its treatment of the subject, neither conventionally linear drama nor documentary; it instead traces a path through multiple perspectives of Glenn Gould, demonstrating that the subject of Gould is a complex text formed through multiple and overlapping interpretations.
		Gould's contrapuntal performances come as close as I can imagine to delivering an inkling of what might be at stake in the composition and performance of counterpoint, minus perhaps any grossly political import.
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	The DVD Journal: Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
		Taken as an impressionistic mosaic, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a celebratory exercise in character study that deconstructs a genius by focusing on small, human moments while never attempting to reduce it subject to merely a bag of eccentricities or broody biopic clichés.
		Thirty-Two Short Films is not the last word on its subject, nor is it as definitive a treatment of Gould as a conventional documentary would be.
		Because Gould's Bach piano interpretations are the blood vessels that course through all the movie's parts, it's vital that Thirty-Two Short Films possess a soundtrack that takes advantage of the clarity and range the DVD format provides.
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	Amazon.ca: DVD: Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		François Girard originally conceived 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould as a biography to try to explain the bizarre genius of the master pianist who stopped touring in 1963 at the height of his success.
		Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould is an incredible venture in story telling, in biography, in education, and an heroic attempt to show a story from multiple vantage points, using a varied set of devices.
		This is a totally original film that incorporates marvelous acting, densely-layered cinematography, and a variety of technical and emotional details seamlessly.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000544LY (963 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its thirty-two short sections (the format is modelled on the 32 sections of Gould's mosts famous recording, Bach's Goldberg Variations) each reveals a different aspect of Gould's work and personality.
		Perhaps one criticism of the film might be that it is, inevitably, slightly superficial; there is simply insufficient time to explore such a complex character in depth.
		It is perhaps one of the best films to deal with classical music, conjuring up a vivid pciture of the musician Glenn Gould whilst bringing to life the music he plays.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000544LY/sixapart-20 (879 words)

	Commonweal: Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould. - movie reviews
		His two versions of Bach's Goldberg Variations bracketed the recording career of Glenn Gould.
		After an opening in which Gould walks toward the camera through a barren wintry landscape while the aria from Goldberg is heard on the soundtrack, we watch thirty self-contained movies about thirty aspects of the pianist's life.
		That's what is wrong with it." Well, Glenn Gould, I venture, would have loved this movie for its purity of design, its use of variation form, and - perhaps most of all - for its respect for human strangeness.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taken as an impressionistic mosaic, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a celebratory exercise in character study that deconstructs a genius by focusing on small, human moments while never attempting to reduce that genius to merely a bag of eccentricities or broody biopic clichÈs.
		In "Gould Meets Gould," Gould the intellectual literally interviews himself (in a piece that was actually scripted by Gould), arguing with himself about the roles of artist and audience.
		Still, in its own artistry and unconventionality, this film succeeds in introducing Glenn Gould — the man and the musician — to new audiences who might not be attracted to more ordinary "PBS fare." It was the winner of four 1994 Genie Awards (the Canadian "Oscar"), including Best Picture and Best Director.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould at Epinions.com
		It is made up of 32 short films (all by the same director), and they each explore some part of enigmatic Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
		My opinion of Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould comes with a bias of having revered Glenn Gould as the most phenomanal pianist/philosopher of the 20th century.
		32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (which takes its name from Bach's 32 Goldberg Variations, which Gould famously played) is a charming series of anecdotes about the reclusive Canadian pianist who retired at the peak of his fame.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould at Epinions.com
		I had never heard of Glenn Gould when I first saw this film and went out and bought Gould playing the Goldberg variations.
		Gould was a shy iconoclast, a drug addict, a perfectionist.
		I can't help wishing there were a documentary--after all, Gould loved the recording studio and technology, preferring them ultimately to the uncertainty of live performances.
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	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gould's interpretation, as no doubt scores have already noted, is warm and supple, technically remarkable yet never alienating; one could absorb this talent forever, never weary or bored.
		Imaginatively, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is more an exploration of Gould's place within the world, a study of his life's arc rather than a list of achievements.
		The end result is that Gould comes across as a typical genius, obsessed by his obsession, devoted to his craft and at odds with his accomplishments.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Thirty_Two_Films.html (762 words)

	Sony Pictures - DVD & Video
		Internationally renowned pianist Glenn Gould had all the marks of genius-blinding talent, a craving for perfection and absolute bullheadedness.
		Using thirty-two elegantly constructed vignettes, which span Gould's life from age four until his untimely death at age fifty, the film achieves the rare balance between play and conceptual rigor.
		Each of the thirty-two selections dramatizes a variation on the theme of Glenn Gould, depicting the many diverse aspects of his life from artist to financier, humorist to nature-lover, recluse to iconoclast, and the result is a powerful impressionistic mosaic of genius.
	sonypictures.com /homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD043396743595.html (196 words)

	V021 (& Columbia 74356): Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould: The Sound of Genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Interviewer and GG conduct an interview on stage in semi-darkness as Bach plays in background; implication is that both men are GG.
		Voiceover of GG saying he is in love; we see the letter he has written about this.
		We see GG talking about the market to employees of the restaurant where he's eating.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/schoenberg/colu7435.htm (828 words)

	Title: "Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould" - Topics: Music/Classical; World/Canada
		This film consists of 32 short vignettes about Canada's most renowned classical musician of the 20th century.
		Glenn Gould (1932 - 1982) was a performer, recording artist, broadcaster, producer for radio and television, and an extremely eccentric man.
		TEACHERS: A film can be an alternative educational experience and highlight points covered by the curriculum.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/thirty-two-short-films-about-glenn-gould.html (380 words)

	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		The film contains two lackluster animated interpretations of Gould performances, but this is not a concert film.
		These glimpses are still valuable, because they provide some insight into the world of Gould, a legendary recluse who stopped performing live and devoted his time to recordings.
		Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is mentioned in Scott's commentary on:
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	Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A tiny figure slowly emerges from a vast expanse of snow, and a succession of short essays recreate moments in the life of the brilliant Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould (Colm Feore).
		From his unusual Ontario childhood to his musical debuts on the international stage, to his eccentric living, performing, dressing, driving, waking, and sleeping habits, this film offers insights into his loneliness, hypochondria, polypharmacy, and tragic death from a stroke at age 50 in 1982.
		Gould's musical genius was well tempered by his foibles.
	popmail.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/thirty.two.short.115-film-.html (212 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould : Main
		The film festival ethos of 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould is well suited to Francois Girard's film.
		The highly acclaimed and famously eccentric classical pianist Glenn Gould is the subject of this idiosyncratic film portrait.
		As the title suggests, Gould's life is explored through a series of thirty-two self-contained but interrelated vignettes, a structure inspired by Bach's "Goldberg Variations," the compositions that were t...
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	Piet Mondrian, Metamorphoses, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
		In July I went to Canada for a few days to visit my friend Bridget, and since Jen's and my time in New York is quickly drawing to a close, I suggested to Bridget that if she wanted to visit us here and see the city, now would be the time.
		Naturally, I was very interested in the stuff about the relationship of artist to audience, about reclusiveness and eccentricity, etc.
		The sticking point was that I totally failed to understand what was special about Glenn Gould as an artist in his chosen field.
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