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Brigitte Berman (born 1951) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for her 1985 film Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got. [1] Early life and work. Originally from West Germany, she moved to Canada with her family in childhood and studied film at Queen's University. [2]
Brigitte Berman. Director: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got. Brigitte Berman recently finished a new documentary film, Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking out in America (2018). Previously she completed, The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent in 2017. She is known for her films Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) which won ...
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Aug 5, 2021 · That the director, Brigitte Berman, doesn’t give more weight to the racial segregation that defined the jazz milieu of the 1920s speaks to a blind spot that was all too present when she made...
Dec 7, 2021 · Bix and Brigitte Berman: restoring a jazz film classic. 1981 doc Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet returns anew. Brigitte Berman is a pioneering, award-winning documentarian, having spent decades shaping Canada’s non-fiction landscape. The German-born filmmaker has found a home in this country since the 1950s.
Jan 4, 2024 · The documentarian Brigitte Berman has made two spectacular pictures about American jazz pioneers. The first, “Bix: ‘Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet’” (1981), chronicled the life of the...
Feb 2, 2022 · Richard Brody reviews the poignant film biography “Bix,” by Brigitte Berman, about the jazz cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke, and writes about the jazz bio-pics that could have been.
Feb 8, 2022 · From Toronto, Oscar-winner Brigitte Berman (for her documentary Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got) joined me on Zoom for an in-depth conversation on Bix: 'Ain't None Of Them Play Like Him Yet’.
