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Josef Shaftel (14 March 1919–9 March 1999) was an American film producer, director and writer. He made a number of films in England. [1] Shaftel was particularly prolific in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2] In 1970 he raised seven million pounds to film a slate of six movies for Cinerama. [3]
Producer: No Place to Hide. Josef Shaftel was born on 14 March 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for No Place to Hide (1955), The Naked Hills (1956) and The Sell-Out (1976). He died on 9 March 1996 in London, England, UK.
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Abuse of students by teachers is a real problem in music education. The Venezuelan massive music education project El Sistema, once hailed as a social program, has since been described as “a model of tyranny”. In March 2013 Michael Brewer, a former music teacher at Chetham’s school of music was jailed for 6 years after abusing a student who took he...
Compare Whiplash. Terence Fletcher is very much a cartoon villain. He physically assaults and publicly humiliates his students, and fires off homophobic and anti-semitic insults like an unintentional parody of Joe Pesciin a Martin Scorsese film, or anything scripted by David Mamet. All of which he justifies (at least outwardly) by the old lie that ...
It is important to note that the conservatory environment portrayed here belongs historically to classical musicians. While jazz has occasionally been taught in such institutions ever since the first course in Frankfurt in 1928, it has remained marginal until quite recently. Juilliard, for example, first offered jazz courses in 2001 and few big nam...
The rather hollow “victory” achieved at the end of the film by Neiman (in a tour de forceof filming as well as playing) could be argued to have legitimised Fletcher’s treatment of him. But the lasting message is not optimistic. We find out that a former student, Sean Casey, likely hanged himself in response to his treatment by Fletcher. This is far...
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Josef Shaftel (14 March 1919–9 March 1999) was an American film producer, director and writer. He made a number of films in England.Shaftel was particularly prolific in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970 he raised seven million pounds to film a slate of six movies for Cinerama.
Josef Shaftel (14 March 1919–9 March 1999) was an American film producer, director and writer. He made a number of films in England. Shaftel was particularly prolific in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970 he raised seven million pounds to film a slate of six movies for Cinerama.
The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. [1] The current director of music is the British classical pianist Ashley Wass.
Josef Shaftel. No Place to Hide. 1956. Josef Shaftel. W1550. Film Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. Photography by Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMA.
