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FILMS ON WOODY GUTHRIE Create a Woody Guthrie Film Festival in your community!The following is a list of films that are available for public screenings. |
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THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS Narrated by Billy Bragg, this film includes the definitive history of the life & times of Woody Guthrie, with historical and rare documentary photos and footage, excerpts from over 40 Guthrie compositions and contemporary interviews with friends, family and musicians, including his son Arlo, his daughter Nora, his sister Mary Jo, close friends Pete Seeger and Jimmy Longhi, manager Harold Leventhal, biographer Ed Cray, and Guthrie scholars such as Guy Logsdon, Loralee Cooley, Henrietta Yurchenco, Phil Buehler and Jorge Arevalo. Snapper Music For Screening Permissions contact: Snapper Music |
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MAN
IN THE SAND Woody
Guthrie's recorded output represents a mere 10% of the songs he
wrote. The rest he carried with him on his travels; words he scribbled
down in numerous notebooks and tunes humming in his head. When he
died in 1967, those tunes were lost forever. Thirty years later
his daughter, Nora, went looking for somebody to write new music
for these "lost" lyrics. She found Billy Bragg. Man in
the Sand is the story of how together they brought Woody's words
back to life and created the acclaimed album Mermaid Avenue. Union
Productions – filmed in 1999 Union
Productions |
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VISION SHARED This incredible
collection of artists and songs features powerful new versions of
Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly's most important and influential music.
In interviews and performances musicians of today pay tribute to
these two legendary folk heroes through classic songs such as, Deportee,
Goodnight Irene, Union Maid, Vigilante Man, and others. Performances
by John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Willie
Nelson, U2, and Bob Dylan, to name a few. For
Screening Permissions contact: Jim Brown Productions |
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HARD
TRAVELIN' Woody Guthrie wrote and sang more than 1,000 songs that charged a unique mixture of blues and country music with a social consciousness that cam straight from the heart. His distinguished career inspired Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, and a host of other folk luminaries who pay tribute to him here. This revealing program traces Guthrie's life through the eyes of his son Arlo Guthrie. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie's life was truly Hard Travelin', but he lived it to the fullest and his songs remain a gift to the world. MGM
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Screening Permissions contact: Jim Brown Productions |
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ROLL
ON COLUMBIA In early May
of 1941, an unemployed Woody Guthrie and his wife, Mary, packed
their three children into a battered Pontiac and left southern California
for Portland, Oregon. All he had waiting for him in the Northwest
was the vague possibility of writing songs for a documentary film
about the dams being built on the Columbia River. University
of Oregon |
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BOUND FOR GLORY Winner of two Academy Awards, Woody's story of his book set against the Great Depression. Academy Award nomination for best film (1976). Rated by movie critics as "4 Stars." Academy Award - Cinematography, Original Song Score and/or Adaptation MGM UA For Screening Permissions contact: Latanya Taylor |