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Title Stone reader / Jet Films & Point of View Productions [present] ; produced and directed by Mark Moskowitz ; producer, Robert Goodman.

Publication Info. [S.I.] : Jet Films, LLC ; New York, NY : Distributed by New Yorker Video, [2003]
©2003

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 810.9 STO DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction DVD  DVD 810.9 STONE DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD STONE READER DISC 1-2 c.2  Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - DVDs  DVD S DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; letterbox presentation, 16/9 [format], compatible [with] 4/3.
Performer Joseph Vandergast, Jule, Emmett, and Tacie Moskowitz, Clare Quinn, Andy Hertzfeld, John Goldstein, Gloria Moskowitz, Robert Ellis, Leslie Fiedler, Tom Furlong, John Steelye, Alice Seelye, Jim Blankman, Robert Gottlieb, Robert C.S. Downs, Bruce Dobler, John Kashiwabara, Frank Conroy, William Cotter Murray, Richard Wright, Dan Guenther, Carl Brandt, Dow Mossman.
Credits Cinematography, Joseph Vandergast, Jeffrey Confer, Mark Moskowitz ; editors, Mark Moskowitz, Kathleen Soulliere.
Audience MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.
Summary In 1972, Mark Moskowitz, then 18, read John Seelye's review of The Stones of Summer in The New York Times Book Review and immediately bought a copy. He bogged down less than a hundred pages in and gave up, finally giving the yellowed paperback another pass in 1998. On that reading, the book struck a chord, and he saw why it was so rapturously received. Looking for more, Moskowitz did a search for Mossman works produced between 1972 and 1998--and found nothing. So he set out to find Mossman, pursuing countless dead ends, talking to critics, agents, book designers, and editors, none of whom had answers. A commercial producer by trade, Moskowitz grabbed a 16-mm camera to capture his hunt for posterity, and at its best, this documentary hints at the powerful author/audience bond that can transcend race, class, region, and time itself.
Contents Disc one. No one had heard of it -- What was I doing in 1972 -- Leslie Fiedler -- Maine -- Joseph Heller died today -- Obsessed -- Walk in the past -- I tried to help -- Box of Stones -- At last -- Pip in the graveyard -- Process is in you now Special features: Commentary [optional audio feature]; Other books [featurettes and text]; Web resources [text feature]; DVD credits [text feature].
Disc two. Special features: Betty Kelly (15 min.); Furthur conversations (24 min.); Leslie Fiedler: More from Stone Reader (6 min.); Leslie Fielder: From Firing Line (50 min.); A.S. Byatt & Toni Morrison (6 min.); Henry Roth: Connections across time (30 min.); Janet Maslin & Mark Moskowitz (20 min.); Featurette: What happened next (35 min.); Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival (9 min.); Deleted scenes (13 min.); Writers panel (13 min.); "First Story" by Cindy Stilwell (11 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Photo gallery.
Awards Winner, 2002 Slamdance International Film Festival Audience Award-Best Feature: Mark Moskowitz, and Jury Special Award: Mark Moskowitz.
Language In English; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Books.
Novelists.
Authors and readers.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Mossman, Dow. Stones of summer.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Moskowitz, Mark. Screenwriter. Director. Producer.
Goodman, Robert. Producer.
Mossman, Dow.
Vandergast, Joe.
Ellis, Robert.
Fiedler, Leslie A.
Gorman, Edward.
Steelye, John.
Gottlieb, Robert.
Downs, Robert C. S.
Dobler, Bruce.
Kashwabara, John.
Conroy, Frank, 1936-2005.
Brandt, Carl (Carl D.)
Confer, Jeffrey.
Soulliere, Kathleen.
Jet Films (United States)
Point of View Productions (Berkeley, Calif.)
New Yorker Video (Firm)
ISBN 1567303358
9781567303353
Standard No. 717119919443
Music No. DVD 91904 New Yorker Video
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