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A Thought for Today
Faith is God’s Candy.
ANNOUNCEMENT
the American Cinematheque
presents
JOANNA
For those of you living in the Los Angeles area, JOANNA a film I scored
way back in 1968 is having a special showing next week on Saturday July
5th.
It’s part of the American Cinematheque festival and will be shown on a
double bill with a new 35 mm print. It was directed by Famed French New
Wave director Jacques Demy (THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG) and his LOLA star,
the stunning Anouk Aimée, re-teamed for this dreamlike and very
psychedelic portrait of Los Angeles in the late 1960’s. Aimée reprises her
role as "Lola," with Gary Lockwood (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY) as a young
Angeleno who follows her tantalizing image across the city, until they
finally meet at the enigmatic Model Shop.
Here’s how their catalogue describes Joanna:
JOANNA, 1968, 20th Century Fox, 108 min. A long-lost Mod gem from British
director (and former teen heart-throb singer) Michael Sarne (MYRA
BRECKINRIDGE), JOANNA stars the irresistible Genevieve Waite as a
free-spirited art student in Carnaby Street London who floats from one mad
love affair to another like a butterfly – until she meets dying aristocrat
Donald Sutherland (in an amazing, underrated performance.) With a lovely,
melancholy score by the great Rod McKuen. Since JOANNA is unavailable here
in any form, we’ve brought this ultra-rare print in from the British Film
Institute, just for this showing!!
I wrote a very ambitious score for Joanna and a bucketful of songs
including I’ll Catch the Sun, Some August Day, Ain’t You Glad You’re Livin’
Joe and, of course, “Joanna.”
This is a one-time event. For further information check out this website:
www.egyptiantheatre.com
FLIGHTS FROM6THE
PAST
12 July, 1998
TURN AROUND
After awhile the laying on of hands becomes the turning over of our own
responsibilities for us into the hands of others. I want out. Or anyway a
little time to find out who I am instead of what I'm told I should be.
If freedom is the bold stroke I still know it is, I haven't felt its
touch, been branded by its mark, for what must be a small forever inside
the greater one. This not a plea or a demand. A statement only of a
building, searing fact. I know the only actions that will change what must
be changed will have to come from me, out of me - over coffee or the next
half-century.
I need time. Whatever time it will take to finish the craft I'm making to
take me out of here.
- deleted from Suspension Bridge,1984, First published 7/12/98
Sleep warm and I’ll be back tomorrow with this months final edition of Ask
Rod.
RM 6/29/2003 12:11AM PDT
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