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.
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“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER REVIEWED IN THE NATION
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Read the review
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 [...]