Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...
Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial ...
As his latest film screens at the San Sebastian Film ... the overthrow and the murder of Patrice Lumumba. That was just before the UN [General Assemby], and there was so much linked.
Premiering out of Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition, the impressionistic essay film "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" refracts the plot against Patrice Lumumba through a kaleidoscopic lens.
and how Congo leader Patrice Lumumba landed in the crosshairs of outside interests. Along the way, jazz ambassadors including Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie are unaware, as they travel to perform ...