Deadline.com

‘They Shot The Piano Player’ Writer-Director Fernando Trueba On Bringing A Lost Virtuoso Back To Life Through Animation – TIFF Studio

Logline: The masterful duo of Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal treat audiences to a bold animated story of a music journalist (voiced by Jeff Goldblum) on a quest to uncover the truth behind the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘They Shot the Piano Player’ Review: A Deeply Felt Portrait of a Virtuoso Who Wandered Into the Crosshairs of a Police State

‘Chico & Rita’ helmers Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal reteam for another animated film, this time combining documentary material and invented sequences to tell the story of a beloved Brazilian ...
Jazz

Piano Poetry

Piano Poem 1 Silhouette Of Scars (Feat. Phöenix Lazare) Piano Poem 2 Piano Poem 3 Where The Bees Don’t Sting (Feat. Catey Esler and Jan Esbra) Piano Poem 4 Diana (Feat. Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink, and ...
Jazz

Fernando Trueba & They Shot the Piano Player

Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba has long been a jazz fan, and has made several films with a jazz focus. Calle 54 (2000) is still a notable documentary on Latin jazz. The film primarily consists of ...
The Boston Globe

‘They Shot the Piano Player’ tells tale of samba-jazz pianist who vanished — or was he ‘disappeared’?

“They Shot the Piano Player” uses a fictional character to narrate its tale about the mysterious disappearance of an actual person, Brazilian samba-jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Jr. On March 18, 1976 ...
Variety

‘They Shot the Piano Player’: the Joy of Bossa Nova, and the Tragedy of Latin America

They were all so incredibly young. Caetano Veloso opened Salvador’s Vila Velha Theater, a milestone event for the city, at the age of 21. Pianist Francisco Tenório Jr., the subject of Fernando Trueba ...