Touch of Classical: Lorber Find the ‘Genius Within’

Lorber Films are plugging their autumn schedule with Peter Raymont and Michèle Hozer’s Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, a doc that was first showed at TIFF. Lorber will release the picture this September. You can find a pretty elaborate website which describes the doc film and the musical genius that was Glenn Gould.

An enigmatic musical poet, Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences twenty-six years after his early passing. His inimitable music and writings reveal an insightful worldview that we are still trying to unravel. Though there have been many documentaries about Gould, most are distracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves, and scarves while missing the man and message behind the music. Glenn Gould: The Inner Life pierces through the myths, revealing the man beneath the icon and reconstructs his thoughts on music, art, society, love and life. It weaves together an unprecedented array of very rare archive footage with interviews of Gould’s closest friends, some of whom have never spoken about him before, plus never-before heard home recordings and excerpts from his private diaries. In our current over-mediated world, where information overload triumphs over true knowledge, there’s a profound need for someone who cuts through the static, and speaks to us with a clear, candid, and timeless tone. That has been and still is today one of Glenn Gould’s most profound gifts.