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Director: Jon Baskin
Cast: Anne Elliot, Gloria Williams, Cheryl Burke,
Stephanie Mauceri
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 72 min
Format: Beta SP
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word Poetry… If you think of your 10th grade teacher reading
Emily Dickinson from a book then you definitely need to see
Beef to set you straight. This documentary takes a behind
the scenes look at the life of Poetry Slam performers who
are judged not only on what they say but how they say it.
Director, Jon Baskin has done a great job of finding a group
of very talented diverse female poets and investigates the
source of their creativity. We get to see them at work creating
and performing and we get to meet their friends and family
- people who unknowingly helped contribute to their talents.
Terrific cinematography and sound recording help to give
the film, as a whole, just as much energy as each performance
depicted within it. Beef culminates with a recording session
between the featured poets and several musicians. The audience
becomes privy to the exhilarating creative process that happens
between artists of different media. It would be deserving,
to say the least, if the poets on this circuit were one day
as revered as rock stars.
--Mary Kerr
Presented By: Jon Baskin
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