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Kurt Voss (born Kurt Christopher Peter Wössner) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician-songwriter. Voss's credits include Will Smith's debut ''Where The Day Takes You''; the Justin Theroux, Alyssa Milano and Ice T action film ''Below Utopia''; actress Jaime Pressly's debut feature ''Poison Ivy: The New Seduction'', and rock and roll related films including ''Down and Out with the Dolls'' and ''Ghost on The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club''.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082834/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2〕 Voss has frequently collaborated with fellow UCLA alumnus Allison Anders. Working together over twenty-five years, the duo created a trilogy of rock films: ''Border Radio'' (1987), a portrait of the L.A. punk scene featuring John Doe ("X") and Dave Alvin ("The Blasters") and published by The Criterion Collection;〔http://www.criterion.com/films/802-border-radio〕 the Sundance-premiered ''Sugar Town'' (1999),〔Sugar Town (film)〕 featuring John Taylor ("Duran Duran") and Rosanna Arquette; and ''Strutter'' (2012), a Kickstarter-financed independent film. ==Training at UCLA and ''Border Radio''== Voss graduated (UCLA Film School) at age 20 with the designation of most promising graduate.〔Sue Adolphson, San Francisco Chronicle, "Young Director Bets Heavily on 'Geniune Risk'", November 18, 1990, p.29〕 ''Border Radio'' began as a sub rosa project at the UCLA film school by Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss, who pooled their talents as co-producers, co-writers and co-directors to turn out their $82,000 black and white〔UPI, The Daily Spectrum, "Trio of College Film Makers Hit It Big With Border Radio," September 9, 1988, p.2〕 film, which the ''Los Angeles times'' called "quite simply one of the best films ever made about the world of rock music".〔Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, "'Border Radio' Captures Rock-Music Life", September 2, 1988, p.4〕 Critic Kevin Thomas added, "The music and image go together so powerfully, it's poetry."〔 Chris D. Stars as an underground L.A. rocker who flees to Mexico to hang out and drink beer after robbing the safe of a club owner who cheated his band.〔Jonathan Gold, L.A. Weekly, "Border Radio," September 9-15, 1988, p.76〕 Upon its theatrical release,〔Eric Harwood, Daily Variety, "'Betrayed Tops Fiery L.A. B.O. Sesh, September 7, 1988, p.6〕 ''L.A. Weekly'' critic Johnathan Gold wrote, "This is the movie Penelope Sheeris wishes she had made, a movie that explores the punk aesthetic without condescending to it, a sweet, funny no-future movie that hints there is a future after all."〔Jonathan Gold, L.A. Weekly, Film Pick of The Week, September 9–15, 1988, p.76〕 ''Creem Magazine'' called it "The sort of small film one longs to see more often"〔S.A., Creem Magazine, Capsule Reviews, January 1988〕 and praised "...A subtle, dynamic score by Dave Alvin."〔 It was not the only the opportunity to do a full-fledged soundtrack that attracted Alvin to ''Border Radio''. "The film was different," he says. "It had three directors, which is very different. I realized that what I do as a musician is very close to what independent filmmakers do." Alvin also felt akin with Border Radio because the film is set on his turf, inside the Los Angeles rock scene; in fact, its main actors are Alvin's longtime friends Chris D. of Divine Horsemen and X's John Doe."〔Cort Fernald, Calendar Magazine, "Alvin Tunes into Border Radio", September 1–15, 1988, p.50〕 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' had deemed Border Radio "A wonderfully quixotic look at vanishing dreams and misplaced integrity."〔Duane Burge, The Hollywood Reporter, November 19, 1987〕 But Voss' first feature experience was almost his last, when he became fed up with financial and distribution problems and turned to the track〔Sue Adolphson, San Francisco Chronicle, "Young Director Bets Heavily on 'Geniune Risk'", November 18, 1990, p.28〕 to support himself, with mixed result.〔Kurt Voss, Film Threat, "If There is a Santa Claus, Then Why Did Pincay Drop the Whip?" February 1992, p.16〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kurt Voss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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