David Sperling
Cinematographer
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The Fantasticks
Eight times a week, from 1960 to 2002, the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village played midwife to a musical theater ritual that attracted theatergoers from across the globe. That show was the legendary and beloved "Fantasticks" and for 42 years and 17,162 performances, a...Watch Movie
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Last of the Mississippi Jukes
Robert Mugge's 2003 music documentary, LAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUKES, explores the fading traditions of rural Mississippi juke joints. The blues was first played by itinerant musicians in juke joints on the edge of cotton plantations, later migrating into so-called urban...Watch Movie
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The Kingdom of Zydeco
Attempting to name a new "king of zydeco" in the mid 1990s, THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO looks at the Black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana. The music's original self-proclaimed "king" was the great Clifton Chenier who did more than anyone to develop zydeco's musical form...Watch Movie
