DVD Review: Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes: Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Peter Rosen: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes: Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Peter Rosen: Movies & TV

Posted by admin | on 9 July, 08:03 PM

About the Director
Peter Rosen has produced and directed over 100 full-length films and television programs which have been distributed worldwide and have won awards at the major film festivals. He has worked directly with some of the most important figures in the arts such as Leonard Bernstein, Yo Yo Ma, Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Stephen Sondheim, Alexander Godunov, Midori, Martha Graham, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Van Cliburn, Claudio Arrau, I. M. Pei, and Garrison Keillor.
He won the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award for his production Here to Make Music: The Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The show also won a primetime national Emmy Award. He was again nominated for the DGA Award for his film First Person Singular: I. M. Pei. He won the Peabody Award for Playing on the Edge: The Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Product Description
America’s foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor
takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold. This freeform, intimate look at the private man in the public spotlight goes behind the scenes of America’s most popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who created it.

Over one year of filming has resulted in an unusual portrait that cannot be defined by the standard terms of chronological biography: the subject himself is an enigma, and the fictional world he has created has become a real place in America: Lake Wobegon.

A man compelled to speak for his people with humor and nostalgia, Keillor singlehandedly revived the art of live radio for generations of fans by creating an onstage world that deeply resonates with his audiences. His take on America is both pungent and poignant. In the best tradition of Will Rogers and Mark Twain, Keillor mixes storytelling and humor to give us a lighthearted but deeply felt reflection of ourselves.

A worthwhile DVD as seen by a non-follower,

By Steve Kuehl “SLV Video” (Ben Lomond, CA) -

I have a small volume of customers that love this guy’s show, have rented the DVD (A Prairie Home Companion) and follow his work similar to the Paul Harvey crowd. I never listened to their show or even saw APHC, but I did follow Paul Harvey for years and can understand the draw this kind of entertainment has.

This latest documentary covers the span of time before and after that live show in the Minnesota rain a couple years ago. After hearing and seeing his artistic process, I feel compelled to write very little after visualizing a great writer like him. This is a must see for his fan base and I feel they will get a worthwhile product containing plenty of snippets about Minnesota, about how things used to be in the radio industry, Keillor’s random thoughts, unscripted interviews and above all - rhubarb.

The supplements contain some redone footage from the Prairie Home Companion release, outtakes of a sort and a few other items that make this a solid purchase, even for someone that knew little of him prior to this viewing. The overall title has a slight introspective feel to it, that I think maybe caters to the crowd looking for something in themselves, over finding it in some random semi-fictional tripe. Hope you get something out of it.
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