So when film director Stefan Avalos says “I’ve never not known the violin,” he is not being hyperbolic. But even Avalos had never met anyone like Danny Houck, the violin-obsessed subject of his irresistible, way-stranger-than-fiction documentary “Strad Style,” which screened this week at Sundance’s cross-town rival, Slamdance. “He is absolutely obsessed and immersed in the thing.”More than that, Houck somehow contrives to build violins as well. “I had been working for two years on a wide-ranging documentary about the obsession people had with the great violins, about the makers, the players, the collectors and the thieves,” he says. It was a big relief.”But could Houck pull off Il Cannone in time for the European concert Stoica needed it for?

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2017 20:56 UTC