Stop for Bud

Stop for Bud (1963)


  • Genre: Documentary, Music
  • Release Date: 1963-12-17
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 7 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 12min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: Denmark
  • Directors: Ole John, Jørgen Leth, Jens Jørgen Thorsen.
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Summary

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

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  • Bud Powell

    as Himself - Jazz Pianist
  • Dexter Gordon

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

    as Himself
  • Jørn Elniff

    as Himself
  • Max Brüel

    as Himself
Directing Ole John Director
Directing Jørgen Leth Director
Directing Jens Jørgen Thorsen Director
Crew Ole John Cinematography
Writing Ole John Writer
Production Ole John Producer
Sound Bud Powell Music