John Anderson (director)

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John Anderson
Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (2005)
Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2017)
Websitethisisandersonproductions.com

John Anderson (born January 12, 1954) is an American documentary film director, producer, editor and writer. His primary subjects are rock, blues and folk musicians. Anderson often makes films about musicians he admires, such as

Northwestern University School of Communication
, where he studied Radio/TV/Film and Music Theory & Composition.

Early life and education

Anderson was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1954. He spent his childhood in Rochester, New York, and San Rafael, California before moving as a teenager to Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. He started making films at that time, shooting on 8mm stock and composing and recording musical accompaniment. After graduation from

WNUR called Rough Cut, which included live recordings he made in Chicago-area folk, blues, and rock clubs. Don’t Blame Me, Anderson's 1973 live recording of Chicago singer-songwriter Steve Goodman, was released commercially by Red Pajamas Records in 2013. Goodman's body of work includes the well-known song City of New Orleans.[1] In 1997, he directed and edited Larger Than Life: A Celebration of Steve Goodman and His Music, a live concert held at Chicago's Medinah Temple, which was released on DVD by Red Pajamas Records in 2007, and features John Prine, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett and Jackson Browne
.

Career

Anderson began his career as an editor at Chicago film production/post-production facilities including Advanced Systems;

Telemation; Post Effects; and IPA The Editing House.[2] While at Post Effect, he edited The Super Bowl Shuffle (1985), featuring the championship Chicago Bears. At the time, The Super Bowl Shuffle was the second-highest selling music video.[3] Shortly after the release of The Super Bowl Shuffle, the Chicago Bears defeated the New England Patriots at Super Bowl XX winning the NFL Championship on January 26, 1986. Anderson was also named Screen Magazine's Editor of the Year and won a Best Editor of a Music Video International Monitor Award for the music video She Won’t French Kiss by his own band, The Cleaning Ladys.[4] He subsequently worked as a documentary editor for Bill Kurtis at Kurtis Productions on several series, including The New Explorers (PBS), NOVΛ and A&E's Investigative Reports
.

In 1995, Anderson was one of the founding partners of Superior Street, a Chicago video and film production studio. While there, he began his professional relationship with

Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE” (2005), the live performance platinum-selling DVD release from Warner Brothers/Rhino Home Video for which he was nominated in 2006 for a Grammy Award as director. In 2012, Anderson co-directed, co-edited and co-wrote the PBS documentary The Beach Boys: Doin’ It Again[8] He also directed and filmed Brian Wilson's performance of the title song in the 2014 biopic Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack, Paul Dano and Elizabeth Banks.[9]

In 2007, he founded Anderson Productions, where he continues making films such as the Chicago blues documentary Born In Chicago, featuring Nick Gravenites, Corky Siegel, Sam Lay, and Barry Goldberg and also starring Keith Richards, Charlie Musselwhite, Hubert Sumlin and Jack White.

South By Southwest Film Festival[11] and screened at New York City's Lincoln Center, Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center, The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It has been the subject of feature articles in Rolling Stone and The New York Times. The film is produced by Out The Box Records. In 2008 and Anderson received an Emmy as the Executive Producer of CPS Right Now!, a biweekly television news-magazine he created for the Chicago Public Schools, for which he also received 9 Emmy nominations.[12]

In 2015, Anderson directed and edited Sam Lay In Bluesland, a documentary about legendary Chicago blues drummer

B.B. King, Maria Muldaur, Marshall Chess, Todd Rundgren, Bob Dylan and the late Michael Bloomfield and is expected to be released commercially in 2019.[15][16]

Filmography

Filmography (as Director)

Feature-length films

  • In Glorious Smell-O-Vision! (2019) (Co-Director)
  • Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2017)
  • Sam Lay In Bluesland (2016)
  • Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues Live at Shure (2016)
  • Born in Chicago (2013)
  • The Beach Boys: Doin’ It Again (2012) [Co-Director]
  • Larger Than Life: A Celebration of Steve Goodman and His Music (2007)
  • Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (2005)
  • Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds Live in London/Pet Stories (2003)
  • Brian Wilson on Tour (2003)
In Production
  • My Friend Tiny Tim
  • Joey Molland: Liverpool to Memphis
  • The Manhattan Transfer Story

Television

  • CPS Right Now! (2006-2008)
  • Brian Wilson's Imagination (1999)

Filmography (as Editor)

Television

  • The Oprah Winfrey Show: Documentary roll-in segments (1995-2003)
  • Investigative Reports (1992-1995)
  • The New Explorers (1988-1993)
  • NOVA: Back To Chernobyl (1989)

References

  1. ^ "Don't Blame Me (Live): Steve Goodman". Amazon. 1 April 1973.
  2. ^ "IPA To Hold 25th Anniversary Reunion", Reel Chicago, September 10, 2005, retrieved 19 June 2019
  3. ^ "The Super Bowl Shuffle", YouTube, December 3, 1985, retrieved July 31, 2019
  4. ^ "She Won't French Kiss: The Cleaning Ladys", VIMEO, 2018-02-13, retrieved July 31, 2019
  5. ^ "Brian Wilson's Imagination: IMDb". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Brian Wilson On Tour: IMDb". Internet Movie Database. 17 March 2003. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  7. ^ "John Anderson XXXII: Internet Movie Database". IMDb. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Doin' It Again [Blu-ray]: The Beach Boys, John Anderson/Joe Thomas: Movies & TV". Amazon. 28 August 2012.
  9. ^ Mehr, Bob (June 9, 2005). "Smile, You've Got Brian Wilson on Camera". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  10. ^ Rohter, Larry (July 25, 2013). "Blacks and Whites Made the Blues". The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  11. ^ Salinas, Jake (March 13, 2013). "SXSW 2013: Born in Chicago Movie Review". Movie Talk with Jake Salinas. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  12. ^ "Chicago/Midwest Regional Emmy Recipients" (PDF). The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  13. ^ Kenny, Glenn (October 16, 2018). "Review: Paul Butterfield's Story is Told in 'Horn From the Heart'". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
  14. ^ "Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Film Series: 'Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story'", Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, April 17, 2019, retrieved July 30, 2019
  15. ^ Browne, David (October 17, 2018). "5 Things We Learned From Paul Butterfield Doc 'Horn From the Heart'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
  16. ^ Morgenstern, Joe (October 25, 2018). "'Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story' Review: Creativity Above All". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 7, 2019.

External links

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