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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."
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1963-12-17
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- timer Runtime: 12 Mins
- star Rating: 6.6 / 10
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- info IMDB ID tt0316685
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Bud Powell
Himself - Jazz Pianist
Dexter Gordon
Narrator (voice)
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Himself
Jørn Elniff
Himself
Max Brüel
Himself
groups Crew
Ole John
Director
Jørgen Leth
Director
Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Director
Ole John
Cinematography
Ole John
Writer
Ole John
Producer
Bud Powell
Music
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