Word: avakian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work of sociology. Unfortunately, The Jazz Makers is not so varied, informative, or readable as its alluring format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most of the writers involved in this project did not even limit their subjects effectively. Only George Avakian and John S. Wilson focus their works sufficiently. Avakian details the cultural process that changed Louis Armstrong from jazz's first great improviser to a grinning but unartistic national hero, then muses briefly on the corrupting influence that so often accompanies success in the arts. And Wilson has produced...
Directed by ARAM AVAKIAN Screenplay by JEFFREY BLOOM
Directed by ARAM AVAKIAN Screenplay by DONALD E. WESTLAKE...
...these areas, Director Avakian and Writer Westlake (adapting his own novel) are too lazy...
...grotesque lunacy, buggery, and violence. It is interesting, visually, but the sequences involving it are far too long relative to its dramatic importance to the rest of the movie. The film version of End of the Road has no internal sense or logic as a unified work. Southern and Avakian have taken Barth's story of marital infidelity in the 1950's and updated both the setting and the themes with disastrous results...