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PHOTOS BY PETER SOREL/42WEST BUOYANT: Anthony Coleman plays a 6-year-old Louis Armstrong in a mythologized version of the trumpeter’s early years in New Orleans.
A young Louis Armstrong, painted in black and white
New silent movie with live music to be shown at Strathmore
by Ann Hornaday
At a time when high-defini- tion video, 3-D technology and instant downloading are rede- fining the cinematic experience — and not always for the better — making a silent film seems downright radical. But that’s what first-time di-
rector Dan Pritzker decided to do with “Louis,” his movie about Louis Armstrong that is going on tour this week and has a one- time screening Saturday at the Music Center at Strathmore. The film stars Anthony Cole-
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man as a 6-year-old Armstrong and Jackie Earle Haley as a cor- rupt judge in a mythologized version of the trumpeter’s early years in the Storyville district of New Orleans. When “Louis” un- spools at Strathmore, the sound- track of compositions by L.M. Gottschalkand Wynton Marsalis will be performed live by Mar- salis, pianist Cecile Licad and a 10-piece ensemble. As transporting as that per- formance promises to be, the images in “Louis” are often just as musical as the sounds them- selves. Filmed on location in New Orleans and on a sound- stage in North Carolina, “Louis” has the sepia-toned hues of a by- gone era, along with flashes of contemporary wit. At once ar- chaic and dynamic, the film’s visual design was conceived by Pritzker in collaboration with production designer Charles Breen and Oscar-winning cin- ematographer Vilmos Zsig- mond. Making a silent film came nat-
urally to Zsigmond, best known for his work on the 1970s films “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “The Deer Hunter” and “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” As a film student in Hungary in the 1950s, Zsigmond had steeped himself in the silent era and did all his early work in black and white. “That was all we had, be- cause we didn’t have color film yet,” he said recently from his home in northern California. With “Louis,” Zsigmond said, “the challenge was to make a movie with modern technology and make it look like it was shot
in the 1920s. That was really our concern: How much we should we borrow from the style of the past and how much should we make it look like the movie was shot today?” Pritzker chose Zsigmond, now
80, to shoot his film because the cinematographer is so re- nowned in Hollywood for his sensitive attention to shadow and light. “I like silhouettes in movies; I don’t want to light people all the time,” Zsigmond said. “When I light any movie, even a color film, I always like to light it like it was black and white. I don’t want the color to dominate.”
Zsigmond shot “Louis” on 35mm color film, then desat- urated it “to show a touch of col- or, as they used to do in silent films, when they were actually hand-painting the frames.” The filmmakers used old-fashioned lens effects and adjusted the number of frames per second to achieve the signature sped-up or “undercranked” look of silent pictures.
But the signature moment in
“Louis” occurs by way of new technology, when a Steadicam camera travels through a Story- ville brothel in an unbroken five-minute shot that roams from room to room, with about 50 extras and dancers precisely hitting their marks and making it all look spontaneous. Zsig- mond spent the better part of a day lighting the set, a task made more complicated by the fact that it would be filmed in 360 degrees. Pritzker, Zsigmond and cam-
era operator Neal Norton spent hours in rehearsals with the cast. They shot the take several times, often coming nearly to the end when they would run out of film. “We basically had only five takes that went all the way to the end,” Zsigmond re- called. The result is one of the best sequences in “Louis,” a bra- vura ode to cinema’s past and present.
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TINTED:In “Louis,” a touch of color — such as the sepia tones of a bygone era — lit the cast, including Shanti Lowry, top, Delfeayo Marsalis, Dionne Figgins, above left, and Bethany Stronge.
will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Tickets may be purchased for $95, $65 or $55 at the box office, at
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The images in the film “Louis” are often just as musical as the sounds themselves.
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