Sometimes, when fielding audience questions after screenings of “In Search of Beethoven” Phil Grabsky lets it slip that an early cut of his 2009 documentary stretched to 11 1/2 hours long.
“People have come up to me after and said, ‘Where can we get the 11 1/2-hour version?’ ” marvels the award-winning British filmmaker from his home base in Brighton, East Sussex. “I said ‘No, no, that doesn’t exist; it was a moment’.”
Showing this weekend and next at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “In Search of Beethoven” is a nuanced and insightful cinematic portrait…
