The Albert Ayler documentary to be screened at Museum Ludwig in Cologne on August 27. Screening starts at 9 pm. The film’s director and producer Kasper Collin will be present to talk about the making of the film after the screening. Read more here.
“SURELY ONE OF THE GREATEST OF JAZZ DOCUMENTARIES”
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
My Name Is Albert Ayler gets a four out of four stars review in The Buffalo News. The review is written by the papers arts editor Jeff Simon. ”This is a profoundly moving jazz film” he writes. He also calls the film ”surely one of the greatest of jazz documentaries”. The full page review was published on February 13, 2009. The reason was the Swedish produced film’s Buffalo premiere screening at Hallwalls. Read more here.
AYLER FILM AT WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Friday, January 9, 2009
My Name Is Albert Ayler will be screened at Wexner Center for the Arts on January 10. It is screened as one of four films in their series New Documentary. The other three documentaries are Stranded, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine and Beautiful Losers.
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER THIRD BEST FILM OF 2008
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
San Francisco Bay Guardian film critic and writer Max Goldberg put the Swedish feature documentary My Name Is Albert Ayler as number three in his list over the ten best films of 2008. The list was published in SF360, San Francisco Film Society’s and IndieWIRE’S co-publishing venture. This is the complete list (11 films actually…): 1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Roumania) 2. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan/France) 3. My Name is Albert Ayler (Kasper Collin, Sweden) 4. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada) 5. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat, France/Italy) 6. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, Sweden) 7. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, France/USA) 8. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China/Hong Kong) 9. Trouble the Water (Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, USA) 10. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (Matt Wolf, USA) 11. The Witnesses (André Téchiné, France)
Here are links to Max Goldberg’s reviews of My Name Is Albert Ayler in San Francisco Bay Guardian and Flavourpill.
AYLER FILM AT MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL AND CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
On Sunday September 21 My Name Is Albert Ayler will be screened as part of the legendary Monterey International Jazz Festival. This is the 51st edition of the festival which is said to be the oldest jazz festival in the world. The Swedish filmmaker and producer Kasper Collin will attend the festival and participate in a post screening Q&A session.
On September 28 there will be an Alberta premiere screening at the Calgary International Film Festival. A My Name Is Albert Ayler After Party & the festival awards presentation will take place later that evening. From the festivals website: My Name Is Albert Ayler After Party & Awards Presentation. Informal CIFF Wrap Party & Awards Announcement at Escoba. Admission: VIPs and Albert Ayler patrons
HAS IGGY POP SEEN MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER?
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Someone forwarded this intriguing quote from an interview with The Minutemen’s and The Stooges’ bass player Mike Watt: “…Iggy just called me on Thanksgiving and wanted to talk about Coltrane because that movie on Albert Ayler was out…” Read the whole article here.
Rock musicians we for sure know have seen the film are among others Tom Verlaine (in New York) and Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy (in SF). The films’s director Kasper Collin was approached by a smiling Tom after a screening in New York but never had a chance to speak with Will in SF. Friends reported that Will totally loved the film.
PIECE ON AYLER FILM IN NPR’S WEEKEND EDITION
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Finally back after summer holiday.
The film’s producer and director Kasper Collin has been in Oulu Finland participating in the Jury for the MusiXine International Music Film Contest. The other members of this years Jury was Ulla Simonen (film producer and former consultant for shorts and documentaries at AVEK) and John Caulkins (founder and director of Music on Film - Film on Music (MOFFOM) festival in Prague).
We missed to post this earlier. NPR aired a piece on Ayler and the film in their Weekend Edition on June 7. The piece, called Albert Ayler’s Fiery Sax, Now on Film, was made by Howard Mandel.
CRITICS’ PICK IN NASHVILLE, UPCOMING SCREENINGS IN PERTH, AUCKLAND, CLEVELAND
Thursday, June 26, 2008
The film is for the moment having a run in Nashville at the Belcourt Theatre. It is shown Tuesday June 24 to Sunday June 29 as part of their Summer Doc Block series. See here for more info on exact showtimes. In todays Nasville Scene’s Critics’ Picks Jim Ridley calls the film a ”must-see”. See under Friday 6/27. And here is a review from the same paper.
There will be a New Zeeland premiere at the Auckland International Film Festival and Wellington Film Festival in July. See here for more info.
The film premiered in Australia last August at Melbourne International Film Festival and is now returning to Australia as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. See here for more info. Both Perth and Auckland have great programmes this year.
In November last year there were premiere screenings in Albert’s hometown Cleveland. The film was then shown at the Cleveland Cinematheque. On July 18 the film is returning for a screening at the Cleveland Art Museum. See more here. Listen to an interview at WCPN, Cleveland’s National Public Radio affiliate, with the films director Kasper Collin.
DJ LEGEND GILLES PETERSON ABOUT MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
We missed to post this before, Gilles Peterson blogs on the film. “I woke up this morning thinking about this film…” Read more
BACK IN NEW YORK CITY BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
From Anthology Film Archives website: “Back by popular demand! Anthology heeds the call! Kasper Collin’s invaluable documentary on Albert Ayler was a major success when it had its New York theatrical premiere run here late last year. Now it’s back for five days of encore screenings.”
The New Yorker review by Richard Brody from November last year was published again in their April 16-22 issue. Time Out listed the film as a recommended movie and New York Magazine highlighted it with a picture and review. Richard Brody also wrote about the film in the New Yorker’s Goings On blog on April 17.
LA WEEKLY SELECTED MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER AS THE WEEKS GO
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
LA Weekly selected the film as the weeks GO in their review section and SF Weekly called the film “the quintessential portrait of an artist who was ahead of his time”. San Francisco Bay Guardian had the film as its no 1 pick of the week (of all cultural events!). Sheri Linden wrote a nice review in Los Angeles Times that unfotunately isn’t available online. Detroit’s Metro Times gives an A to the film. And so does Movies.com
VARIETY’S PHIL GALLO PRAISES MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Variety’s associate editor Phil Gallo writes: “Ayler, is revealed as an artist of the highest degree, the rare musician whose playing reflected his soul. “My Name is Albert Ayler” reveals the unique manner with which he expressed himself and the humanity that went into his improvisations. It’s a gorgeous portrait” Read more
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER OPENS IN LOS ANGELES AND MORE
Monday, February 25, 2008
The film will do a four city screening tour in early March. Starting in Los Angeles on March 5 with a special screening at the HAMMER Museum and the Billy Wilder Theater, followed by a screening at The International House in Philadelphia (March 6), the films theatrical opening at Laemmle’s Grande 4-Plex in Downtown LA (March 7-13), a run at Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco (March 9-11) and two screenings at MOCAD in Detroit (March 14&15). Director and producer Kasper Collin is scheduled to attend the screening at Hammer Museum, the opening night at Laemmle, several of the screenings at Red Vic and both screenings in Detroit. April 18 the film reopens at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER REVIEWED IN THE NATION
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The piece is written by Nick Stillman. Nick is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, who regularly contributes to both Artforum and The Nation. He is also managing editor of Bomb.
ARTICLES IN MAGNET MAGAZINE AND JAZZ TIMES
Friday, February 15, 2008
The US music magazine Magnet published an article about the film including an interview with filmmaker Kasper Collin in their Winter 2008 issue. The author John Elsasser writes about the film as “a profound and inspiring film”. Jazz Times had a two page article in their December 2007 issue. The piece was written by Thomas Conrad and it also includes an interview with Kasper Collin. “This is a film that gets under your skin” Thomas writes.