Sound the Trumpets Beat the Drums
Sound the Trumpets Beat the Drums
| 01 January 1969 (USA)
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The late 60s saw globetrotting filmmaker Tony Williams shoot and edit two films for Iranian director Mahmoud Khosrowshahi. Here Williams chronicles an east meets west festival held in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Williams’ love affair with music and montage helps lend pace and life to a film whose sonic interests range from Iranian lutes and Indian oboes to American Cathy Berberian, who is busy turning comic strips into song. A glimpse of cosmopolitan Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution, it includes a rare interview with New Yorker classical music critic Andrew Porter.

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Grimossfer

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

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Voxitype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Rio Hayward

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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