BearManor Media News — screen gems

Every Picture Tells A Story: Harvey Kubernik's 'Screen Gems' Tracking Angle contributor Harvey Kubernik's latest book proves "dancing about architecture" - or moving pictures - isn't so bad Rule number one: every documentary has an angle.   I’ve experienced how a “rock doc” can rewrite its subject’s history. In the twilight of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Jackson’s radical re-edit (his angle) of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be footage swept a touch-starved Beatles fanbase. The joy! The memes! Glyn Johns’s fabulous outfits! Jackson’s presentation of the Get Back project fundamentally changed the narrative of the Beatles’ January 1969 sessions.   There's something lost in writing this...