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Maestro |
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Published: 2005-07-26 |
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Customer comments on this selection.
 WHAT AN AMAZING TIME!
THIS DOCUMENTARY OF HOUSE MUSIC..WAS FANTASTIC! AND IN MY OPINION NOT NEARLY LONG ENOUGH, I COULD HAVE WATCHED IT FOR HOURS. MAESTRO TOOK ME BACK...WAAAAAAAAAY BACK TO A TIME WHEN WE AS PEOPLE ( NOT GENDER ) HAD A LOVE FOR MUSIC! LARRY LEVAN, FRANKIE KUNCKLES, WILL FOREVER BE HOUSE HOLD LEGEND NAMES! I THANK WHO EVER CREATED MAESTRO AND FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO TAKE A LOOK BACK AT HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED THIS FILM IS FOR YOU! I EVEN GOT A CHANCE TO SEE A FEW FRIENDS IN MOVIE..LIKE CHINO 3 AND A FEW OTHERS.
This is what it is....
If you want to know about house music and how the scene was born then please watch this masterpiece. The editing and filming is of superior quality. I am happy to see someone put some much care and work into this sub-culture. There is just the right amount of interviews, music and dance to keep the movie flowing nicely. It is amazing! Buy it now.
Great music history lesson!!
Being a DJ from Chicago I must say this is one of the best docus I have ever seen! Way to go!! I was at a Frankie Knuckles party a few years ago when Frankie showed a clip and told the crowd that they would be filming at the party....So as I am sure to say I was in absolute shock when I brought this dvd and viewed second dvd to find me in the crowed jackin off of my old friend Jamie Principle's performance! I will never forget that night and once more I have been immortalized!!!! giggles! House Nation ONE!!! Learn some history buy this DVD!
 Good but the Cinematography needs LOTS of work
I love this film. But frankly the interviews take a lot out of it. You don't really interview Mancuso to the extent that he should have been interviewed. That guy is a freaking genius. Not to mention Two of the greats when it comes to actual dj'ing...Francis Grasso and Steve D'Acquisto...Steve was barely lit at all, and Francis was lit with one spotlight that was right in his face. If I would have been Francis, I would have punched a guy interviewing me like that. How can you call that good cinematography.
Interviewing dj's should always have some great stories to tell about what the movie is supposed to be about. And you had Danny Tenaglia in it for less than a minute, when that guy could tell you stories that would amaze you.
All in all. I really think this should have had a third DVD with it which had all the extended interviews. Including DT, Louie Vega, Jellybean, and all the other great dj's that didn't get enough interview time on this.
And the ORIGINAL video is ONLY 1 hour and 17 minutes. How can you sum up something like this in that short of a timespan. Should have been 2.5 hours at least. People would have definitely sat through that.
 I never knew...
I came to the New York City club scene in the mid-90s when people like Michael Alig and the club kids were all the rage. I never knew the history of what came before them. I just figured disco transitioned into the gay club scene. Maestro helped fill in the gaps in my gay history knowledge.
It was fun to learn about a whole period of time that directly inspired things you've experienced. Maestro puts a face on the people and places that innovated and laid the groundwork for the Tunnel and Twilo and Roxy and Limelight that followed. That face was Larry Levan. This was such an interesting documentary.
Of course, the movie had to go into the sad AIDS era that almost every gay documentary goes through but that's what really happened and ignoring it won't help. I highly recommend watching this movie. It also works as a great companion piece with Paris is Burning to give a good snapshot of what was going on with the gay underground in New York City in the 1980s.
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