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 John Musilli Philip Johnson: Self Portrait The Cinema Guild, USA 1985, 55’ This documentary was filmed over a period of ten years in many of the locations that evoke Johnson’s long, brilliant and controversial career, his working methods, his aesthetic, and his critics: his own “Glass House” residence in Connecticut; the former AT&T headquarters with the “Chippendale” pediment, the elegant “Four Seasons” Restaurant in Manhattan’s Seagram Building, the huge I.D.S. Center in Minneapolis; Pennzoil Place towers in Houston, Texas; Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum; the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, and others. Mr. Johnson guides a lively private tour of his own painting and sculpture collections and his private design studio; and mounts a vigorous defense of a proposal to completely renovate Times Square as a new center for New York City. John Musilli. "Philip Johnson: Self Portrait" was the culmination of a decade-long interest of director John Musilli in the reknowned architect, filming him on several occasions with writer/editor/lecturer Rosamond Bernier as host and interviewer. It was one of many documentaries in the arts that Musilli (d. 1991) produced or directed over a career that spanned thirty years. Examples, among many others: films on the Pompidou Center, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the "Luminist" school of painting, photographer Diane Arbus, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, poet Basil Bunting, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Kubrick's landmark film "2001 A Space Odyssey", composer Fats Waller, painter Hans Richter, the music group The Chieftains, and the American comic strip. His work after 1970 was nearly always produced in association with his long-time business partner Stephan Chodorov. Musilli was an alumnus of the WGBH (Boston) graduate school in television production. Most of his career was spent at CBS Television, where he worked in the sports, news and arts areas. He was a producer at the short-lived CBS cable television channel, and then founded, in 1980, with Chodorov, Camera Three Productions. Through that company, in the last ten years of his life, Musilli directed several highly successful PBS specials including "The Kingston Trio and Friends, Reunion", "Mario Lanza, the American Caruso", "Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Sound of American Music", "John Wayne Standing Tall", "Lerner and Loewe, Broadway's Last Romantics", "Irving Berlin's America", "Lawrence Welk, Television's Music Man", and "Frank Sinatra, The Voice of Our Time". |
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