Tonight at Spectacle: 1929 Commune film with live score
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May 4, 2011, 2:29:28 PM5/4/11
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For Those That Gave Their Lives: Viva la Commune!
Wednesday May 4th 2011 - 9:30PM
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
$5
Set during the Paris Commune of 1871, Louise, a clerk in a fancy Paris
store becomes politicized and joins the Communards... Join us on the
125th anniversary of Haymarket, 140 years since the Paris Commune.
From Screenslate, "...New Babylon manages to capture the spirit of a
Lautrec image brought to life. The depictions of Paris cabarets and
communes account for the most startling mis-en-scénes in all cinema,
and from the smoke-filled dancehalls to rain-soaked executions, it’s
difficult to imagine Moulin Rouge... and Blade Runner without it. But
beyond mere aesthetics, New Babylon an incredibly moving and
sophisticated political film, one that sidesteps the contemporary
polemics of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov et al and addresses workers’
struggle through the 1871 Paris Commune...though Shostakovich created
a score for New Babylon‘s initial release, The Spectacle features a
live score by The Silver Process tonight. Sacrilege, but it should be
noted the conductor at the original 1928 performance was so wasted and
confused by the unorthodox instrumental combinations that it was a
complete disaster. So really, this can only be an improvement."
About the filmmakers, "Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg formed the
legendary Russian FEKS (Factory of the Eccentric Actor) in 1921. FEKS
was an avant garde theater collective in which members participated in
all aspects of production. They practiced everything from set design
to somersaults and aspired to the physicality of American comic and
detective films."
--Hay! Market Research - Dara Greenwald, 2003, 3 minutes
--New Babylon - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929, 93 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes | Digital Projection
With live improvised score by Silver Process, the newly named group
who previously played along to our silent collective program at
Spectacle April 13th: Chuck Bettis (laptop electronics), Yuriko
Huguchi (tenor saxophone), Coralie Lonfat (laptop electronics), and
Joe Merolla (violoncello).
Here's a trailer for the film produced by Spectacle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQrTHUK0lmY
www.spectacletheater.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121311837948794
Wednesday May 4th 2011 - 9:30PM
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
$5
Set during the Paris Commune of 1871, Louise, a clerk in a fancy Paris
store becomes politicized and joins the Communards... Join us on the
125th anniversary of Haymarket, 140 years since the Paris Commune.
From Screenslate, "...New Babylon manages to capture the spirit of a
Lautrec image brought to life. The depictions of Paris cabarets and
communes account for the most startling mis-en-scénes in all cinema,
and from the smoke-filled dancehalls to rain-soaked executions, it’s
difficult to imagine Moulin Rouge... and Blade Runner without it. But
beyond mere aesthetics, New Babylon an incredibly moving and
sophisticated political film, one that sidesteps the contemporary
polemics of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov et al and addresses workers’
struggle through the 1871 Paris Commune...though Shostakovich created
a score for New Babylon‘s initial release, The Spectacle features a
live score by The Silver Process tonight. Sacrilege, but it should be
noted the conductor at the original 1928 performance was so wasted and
confused by the unorthodox instrumental combinations that it was a
complete disaster. So really, this can only be an improvement."
About the filmmakers, "Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg formed the
legendary Russian FEKS (Factory of the Eccentric Actor) in 1921. FEKS
was an avant garde theater collective in which members participated in
all aspects of production. They practiced everything from set design
to somersaults and aspired to the physicality of American comic and
detective films."
--Hay! Market Research - Dara Greenwald, 2003, 3 minutes
--New Babylon - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929, 93 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes | Digital Projection
With live improvised score by Silver Process, the newly named group
who previously played along to our silent collective program at
Spectacle April 13th: Chuck Bettis (laptop electronics), Yuriko
Huguchi (tenor saxophone), Coralie Lonfat (laptop electronics), and
Joe Merolla (violoncello).
Here's a trailer for the film produced by Spectacle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQrTHUK0lmY
www.spectacletheater.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121311837948794
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