BARE WITH ME ON THIS POST its about film, music, history, New York & people who make an impact... Last week I received an email from one of the most extraordinary men Ive had the amazing pleasure of meeting & doing his PR on, the film director Jack Garfein. We became great friends. It simply said this Clyde Jeavons & the BFI have invited me to see the footage taken by the British Army in Belsen where I was an inmate & liberated from at the age of 14. But please, I dont want you to get depressed so we could meet after the documentary if you prefer not to join me at the screening. With loads of affection, Jack Id been on an extraordinarly emotional voyage with Jack when the British Film Institute re-screened his mind-blowing film Something Wild a couple of years ago as a homage to his talent. Throughout the screening Jack wept as had realised, 40 yrs later, that his daring, ahead of its time film which hed made as a young man was not just about a teenage rape victim in the NY of 1960 but actually a reflection of his emotions during the concentration camp march he was forced to do as a boy & survived! He announced at the Q&A that he never wanted to see the film again!! It was one of the most moving moments of my life which says quite a bit, as Ive had a few powerful ones in my time! I thought long & hard about going to see this documentary as (like most of us) Id seen quite a bit of concentration movie footage during school history lessons etc & of course found them harrowing, to say the least!! Ive decided to go to the screening to sit with Jack whilst he relives this time of his life for many reasons... It is Jacks life that Id love to put on film... from spending most of his early youth surviving the camps, being liberated by the British Army (he wrote to the Queen to say thanks & she replied!) to being shipped off to NY at 15 & surviving the loneliness of a city where he knew no one & no word of English to then being excepted to study at the famous Actors Studio (where he made good friends with Marilyn Monroe, James Dean & became Elia Kazans protégé etc), ending up directing Something Wild which offended a Hollywood of 1961 so much it was banned for years, sitting gathering dust in a film can - it is now considered a classic! Here is the extraordinary opening sequence, Jack asked friends to put together his vision for this sequence & WHAT friends he had! The score was composed by Aaron Copeland!! with the title sequence designed by Saul Bass!! and it is quite simply amazing!!!! A N.Y of the early 60s that you may all enjoy glimpsing. I feel very privileged to be continuing my voyage with Jack today. Octavia Peissel Samm Haillay Rohan Stevenson Muffala Bozzarello Tayo Popoola Nicky Briger Richard West Alexander Briger Sean Wayland Claire Horseman Claire Manumission Andy Carroll Tedd Patterson Ondine Landa Abramson Nicky Siano
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:51:40 +0000
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