Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler vs Junk Films
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler has the higher audience score (10/10 against 1/10 for Junk Films). Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 30m. Junk Films is the older of the two (2007 against 2011). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Junk Films| Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler | Junk Films | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 1.0/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2007 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United States of America | Japan |
| Director | Peter Rosen | Kiyotaka Tsurisaki |
| Main cast | Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz | – |
Synopsis
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Jascha Heifetz was the first truly modern virtuoso, a man about whom Itzhak Perlman said, 'When I spoke with him, I can't believe, I'm talking to God'. Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius. The paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts - gifts he must honor, but which extract a life-long price. Is the man…
Junk Films
A controversial still photographer specializing in grim death portraits translates his morbid sensibilities to the moving picture to offer an affecting look at death from an entirely unique perspective. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka specializes in the kind of photography that most folks would shrink away from. Over the course of his career, Kiyotaka has photographed more than 1000 deaths, a focus that often finds him facing legal problems in his home…
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