The Chaconne is definitely a journey and you feel it from the outset… And then Bach manages to take you through the entire range of human emotion… -Joshua Bell
Michael Lawrence’s new film which explores Bach from a spiritual, intellectual point of view as well as from the perspective of instruments and performance includes interviews with violinist Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn and many others.  The project is now in post production and looks like it will be a beautifully shot and very interesting documentary.  Watch a preview and Joshua Bell playing …

The film by Pere Portabella is “an approach to music and the trades and subjects that surround it through Bach’s works.” It was presented at the 64th Venice International Film Festival 2007. A series of beautiful vignettes which explores the relationship between image and music where the music is the subject of the narrative itself.

Defiance a new film directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai) and starring Daniel Craig also features renowned violinist Joshua Bell as a soloist for the film’s score composed by the Oscar nominated James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight, Michael Clayton, The Fugitive, The Prince of Tides, etc.)