Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Comments

  • Simeon 2022-09-24 06:47:55

    That part of the stock market was so funny, especially when the manager said "pianist" after he put down the phone, which made me laugh inexplicably. Finally, I wrote that two travelers flew away from the heliosphere, so romantic. The unsatisfactory part is that because I have a love for him, I can't accept anyone to play him. Choking at the thought of his cluttered...

  • Kaelyn 2022-09-08 08:57:03

    The biographical story of the great pianist Gould consists of 32 small chapters, which respectively introduce some fragments and details of Gould's life course, allowing people to peek into his inner world. Quite a strange person, but aren't all masters so...

  • Arielle 2022-08-30 22:50:56

    Follow Gould into the road restaurant to listen to polyphonic music, the bass part is the downtown sound in the radio, and the high part is the suburb sound in the truck...

  • Monte 2022-08-30 21:45:49

    This is what Said said in "Music's Extremes": "Perhaps there is a concept that dominates Gould's life and work (his work also includes a lot of interesting and sometimes over-run prose), that is, the unwillingness to be subordinated. It depends on the time and place he is in. He believes that the worst thing to do is to just follow the zeitgeist or to be fashionable. So he is not just a man obsessed with his own eccentricities, but also an original creator who believes that as an artist and a...

  • Ibrahim 2022-08-30 21:30:29

    This film did not capture the essence of gould at all, but turned gould into a crazy artist in pop...

  • Kaya 2022-08-30 15:54:41

    Although Quan Ying doesn't understand a bit~ But I still want to like some of the passages~ A unique biopic~ You know, I hate biographies...

  • Hank 2022-08-30 14:38:24

    A bit like Hines' "I'm Not Present"~ It's a multi-faceted in-depth...

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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould quotes

  • Glenn Gould: I don't know what the effective ratio would be but I've always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings, you need X number of hours alone. Now what that X represents, I don't really know, whether it be 2 and 7/8ths or 7 and 2/8ths, but it's a substantial ratio.

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    Glenn Gould: [voiceover] My mother tells me that by five years old I had decided definitively to become a concert pianist. I think she had decided some time earlier. The story goes that while I was in the womb she played the piano continuously to give me a head start, and evidently it paid off. My mother was my first teacher, and I've never doubted her methods. After all, she introduced me to Bach.