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Crossroads

Released 1986
Distributor Columbia Pictures

Ralph Macchio plays a Juilliard student on the trail of legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson and Joe Seneca is a grizzled harpist who knows more about the near-mythical musician than he’s letting on. Walter Hill directed this trip to the crossroads from a script by John Fusco who wrote it as a class assignment at NYU. Ry Cooder composed the soundtrack and Steve Vai plays the demonic guitar ace in the film’s finale.

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About David Zeiger

Guggenheim Fellow David Zeiger has been making documentary films and series for 20 years, starting with The Band, a film about his son’s junior year in high school, broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. in 1997. His short documentary, Funny Old Guys, was broadcast in 2002 by HBO. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, ran theatrically in 65 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada and was broadcast in 200 countries worldwide. It won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival (Audience Award) and Hamptons Film Festival, and Seeds of War Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2012 completed his first narrative feature, Sweet Old World.

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