In the suburbs of a city still reeling from race riots, a Cleveland Orchestra cellist clashes with his artist wife over whether their son should be schooled in an integrated inner-city publi... Read allIn the suburbs of a city still reeling from race riots, a Cleveland Orchestra cellist clashes with his artist wife over whether their son should be schooled in an integrated inner-city public school.In the suburbs of a city still reeling from race riots, a Cleveland Orchestra cellist clashes with his artist wife over whether their son should be schooled in an integrated inner-city public school.
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- TriviaOnly five prints of Double-Stop were produced when the film was released in 1968. Four of these were 35mm prints and the fifth was a 16mm print. One of the 35mm prints was used to create theatrical trailers, while the other three were edited from 91 minutes to 76 minutes and screened in theaters. One of these three surviving 35mm prints was used when Double-Stop was restored for its 2011 screening. The lone 16mm print (which was never edited from its original 91-minute length) was circulated to more than a dozen colleges and universities in 1968. This print was screened more than a dozen times in student centers which were not equipped with 35mm film equipment. This film has been partially restored (color corrected) and preserved on DVD, and it contains several "lost" scenes, including a different opening sequence, several scenes filmed on a tugboat, and additional footage of Katherine Westfall (Mimi Torchin) interacting with her art students..
- GoofsPablo's school bus indicates it is from the Willoughby-Eastlake City School District, a suburban school district, but central to the plot is that Pablo is being bussed to an undesirable inner-city public school. (The director of the film noted that "it was just a bus we could rent".)
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A Valentine to Cleveland, and a time capsule of the East Side
I saw this film at the Cleveland Cinematheque tonight at the first major screening in over 40 years and with what the director said was the largest audience ever to view the film. The beautiful, recently completed digital restoration was presented from a Blu-ray disc with digital projection (a rarity for the Cinematheque). For anyone who grew up in Cleveland, and especially in the late 1960s, this film will be a nostalgic treat. Its superb photography memorializes in time-capsule fashion some wonderful locations on Cleveland's East Side, most notably Severance Hall (the main characters are Cleveland Orchestra musicians), University Circle, Hessler Road, Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, and Bratenahl.
In terms of theme, the film deals with race and class relations in Cleveland, not thickly enough to be polemic but too thinly to be striking or thought-provoking. The story is not strong; there is nothing that we would consider today a typical story "structure"; the movie has no stars, no action sequences, no real suspense or element of danger. For these reasons, it is understandable why the film never received a wide release, despite the fact that it was carefully and loving crafted. It is an art film and a very artfully done one at that, and will appeal to music lovers (its title refers to the technique of bowing two strings at once on a stringed instrument to create harmony, as in the Bach cello pieces that texture the film's score) and photography lovers, as well as native Clevelanders. RKS
In terms of theme, the film deals with race and class relations in Cleveland, not thickly enough to be polemic but too thinly to be striking or thought-provoking. The story is not strong; there is nothing that we would consider today a typical story "structure"; the movie has no stars, no action sequences, no real suspense or element of danger. For these reasons, it is understandable why the film never received a wide release, despite the fact that it was carefully and loving crafted. It is an art film and a very artfully done one at that, and will appeal to music lovers (its title refers to the technique of bowing two strings at once on a stringed instrument to create harmony, as in the Bach cello pieces that texture the film's score) and photography lovers, as well as native Clevelanders. RKS
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- Feb 19, 2011
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