Product Description

This is director Matt Wolf's portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and abstract art. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and collaborators, including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, to tell this poignant story. 65 minutes of extras include rare archival footage of two full-length performances, "Soon to be Innocent Fun / Let's See" (1985) and "Calling All Kids" (1989), Allen Ginsberg:A Memorial for Arthur Russel (1992), 1970 recording of an audicassette letter sent from Arthur in San Francisco to this parents, as well as tribute performances of Russell's songs by Jens Lekman, Verity Susman from Electrelane, Joel Gibb from Hidden Cameras, and Arthur's Landing (featuring members of Modern Lovers, Joyce Bowden and Steven Hall).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89837 in DVD
• Brand: New Video
• Released on: 2008-11-18
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Running time: 71 minutes

Features

• WILD COMBINATION-PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSS (DVD MOVIE)

The Village Voice
A vibrant and affecting resurrection of the New York cellist, vocalist, and avant-disco composer-an eccentric pioneer of the '70s and '80sdowntown fringe who inspired today's dance-punk scene and deserved canonization long before he died of AIDS in 1992

Inspiring.

Resourceful and refreshingly open-minded... a rich complicated picture.

Film Comment
A finely tuned, remarkably affecting and informative portrait.

San Francisco Bay Guardian
Shattering, nuanced and hopeful...a revelation.