The Quiet Americn

Although the Nine Winds label is best known for the avant-garde music of its founder Vinny Golia, this quartet set with pianist Dave Ferris, tenor-saxophonist Bob Sheppard, bassist Eric Von Essen and drummer Kendall Kay (trumpeter Howie Shear sits in on "Rhythm 8") falls into the modern mainstream. Straightahead jazz fans will enjoy hearing the fresh new pieces and the many creative solos from Ferris and Sheppard. ~ AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

The story of Major Lawrence Johnston, the creator of Hidcote Manor Garden in Gloucestershire and Serre de la Madone in the South of France.

John Pilger's first film, The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for the British current affairs series World in Action, broke the sensational story of insurrection by American drafted troops in Vietnam. In his classic history of war and journalism, The First Casualty, Phillip Knightley describes Pilger's revelations as among the most important reporting from Vietnam. The soldiers' revolt – including the killing of unpopular officers – marked the beginning of the end for the United States in Indo-China.

It’s fifteen long years since the last child was born in the mountains. One morning, a carrier pigeon arrives at Doc Hendersen’s farm with a message. The message comes from Communion Creek, an isolated settlement in the far north of the Fairborne Mountains.

Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the …