Steve Gebhardt, the Cincinnati filmmaker who died last month of heart failure at age 78, made films with or about such fascinating cultural figures as John and Yoko, the Rolling Stones, John Sinclair, Jonas Mekas, Jazz Composers Orchestra, architect Zaha Hadid and bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe. Yet for all his impressive work and connections, he never really became well-known. And it was often a struggle for the films he worked on to get released, or for him to get what he felt was proper credit. "He was very good working with other people," said Mekas, a mentor and confidante. "Sometimes he did not get credit for it. I think he helped a lot with what John Lennon and Yoko Ono did. And he was dedicated, selfless. He did not work for credit; he just did what he liked to do and was very helpful to many people." After graduating from Cincinnati's Walnut Hills High School,...
- 11/11/2015
- by Steven Rosen
- Indiewire
In today's roundup: André Bazin on Chris Marker, "100 women directors Hollywood should be hiring," reviews of Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and Terry Gilliam's new memoir, interviews with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Todd Haynes, Clive Owen (by RZA), Patricia Arquette (by Marc Maron) and Alan Howarth, remembrances of Fred Thompson, José Fonseca e Costa and Steve Gebhardt, plus: Elaine May will make a documentary for PBS about Mike Nichols, while Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth) are adapting stories by Neil Gaiman for British television. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/2/2015
- Keyframe
In today's roundup: André Bazin on Chris Marker, "100 women directors Hollywood should be hiring," reviews of Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and Terry Gilliam's new memoir, interviews with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Todd Haynes, Clive Owen (by RZA), Patricia Arquette (by Marc Maron) and Alan Howarth, remembrances of Fred Thompson, José Fonseca e Costa and Steve Gebhardt, plus: Elaine May will make a documentary for PBS about Mike Nichols, while Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth) are adapting stories by Neil Gaiman for British television. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/2/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono accepted an invitation to perform at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Ann Arbor, they knew it would be an event to remember. In addition to their performances, the rock benefit concert marathon featured Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger and Allen Ginsberg as well as activists like Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Father James Groppi and David Dellinger. So Lennon and Ono commissioned “Ten For Two,” a documentary of the event; this Saturday, the University of Michigan's student union will celebrate the event's 40th anniversary. And the film is still unavailable for release in the U.S. “It’s been a sore point with me since it was canned,” says Steve Gebhardt, who shot the film with Robert Fries and two other filmmakers. “I think it’s always had its need to be screened.” Gebhardt believes that by the time the film was ready in early...
- 12/6/2011
- Indiewire
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