John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Live in Berlin 1991 is a 1992

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 concert film

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 directed and shot by Garret Linn. It was the director's first feature, and was filmed in Super16. It was shown at The Water Reade Theater in New York City and was part of the Berlin Film Festival in 1992 (nytimes cit and BFF cite)

Summary

A feature film of a concert given at the Quartier Latin Club in Berlin, Germany on March 28-31, 1991.

Cast/Players

• John Lurie
  John Lurie
  John Lurie is an American actor, musician, painter and producer. He is co-founder of The Lounge Lizards, a jazz ensemble. Lurie has acted in 19 films including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law, composed and performed music for 20 television and film works, and he produced and starred in...
  
   – Alto & Soprano Saxophone
• Steven Bernstein – Trumpet & Cornet
• Michael Blake – Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
• Oren Bloedow
  Oren Bloedow
  Oren Bloedow is an American singer, guitarist, and composer. He founded the band Elysian Fields in 1995 with Jennifer Charles.His father, Jerry Bloedow, b...
  
   – Bass
• Bryan Carrott – Vibraphone & Marimba & Timpani
• Billy Martin
  Billy Martin (percussionist)
  Billy Martin is an American jazz drummer, best known as a member of jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood.-Biography:Before becoming part of Medeski, Martin & Wood, Martin was part of the New York City Brazilian scene in the 1980s. He performed regularly with Pe De Boi, Batucada and several Bob...
  
   – Percussion
• Michele Navazio – Guitar
• Jane Scarpantoni
  Jane Scarpantoni
  Jane Scarpantoni is a classically trained cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums.She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-'80s, then went on to play with other musicians especially those associated with the Hoboken underground rock scene of the...
  
   – Cello
• Grant Calvin Weston – Drums

Review

John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Live in Berlin 1991 was reviewed by The New York Times

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and Variety

Variety

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Availability

The film was extremely difficult to find for many years. There was a very brief limited release in Germany and the United States. A CD recording of the same concert was released by VeraBra Records under the title of "Lounge Lizards - Berlin 1991 Part I & Part II". In early 2011 the company that made the film released a low quality version on youtube.com.

Trivia

• This was one of the very first music concert films to be shot in Super16. http://web.archive.org/web/20050424100041/http://www.abelcine.com/Resources/IndustryContacts/aaton16features.php
• The project was initiated by Robert Burden who was a film and video editor. He was the brother of Chris Burden
  Chris Burden
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• The film was mixed and engineered by Tom Lazarus.