The very talented London based filmmaker Jenny May Finn has just made public her documentary ‘The Darklings: the fans behind the band’. The Darklings are, of course, are fans of rock gods The Darkness and Finn made this video alongside Róisín Murphy. If I remember correctly this documentary was made for their thesis in DCU.
This is an interesting look at fans, fandom and the relationship with the artists they ‘follow’.
Grab a cuppa, have a look!
The Lone Ranger movie hits our screens on August 9th and in the run up to the release. John Reid stars at The Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp is his spirit warrior companion Tonto. The film has been produced by Jerry Brockheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski who together brought us Pirates of the Caribbean.
Earlier, Depp told BBC breakfast that he may quit acting. I’d love to see Depp step away from the big blockbusters and do a couple of indie films so we can see more than the caricature of himself that he has become thanks to the blockbusters, oh and Tim Burton. You can have a look at a featurette for The Lone Ranger below.
Anyway, William Tell Overture has been remixed by Future Cut, the UK production team who have been working with Stooshe and Paper Crows. It’s available for FREE DOWNLOAD from Soundcloud below or here if you’re on a mobile device.
The full soundtrack will be available on Walt Disney Records.
Populaire is in cinemas today, I’m not sure I’m going to get a chance to see it this weekend but I hope I will over the next week. Going on the trailer it looks like a good couple of hours.
It’s set in 1958 and is directed by Régis Roinsard, as far as I know this is his first feature length film and stars Romain Duris, who starred with Juliette Binoche in 2008’s Paris and also Bérénice Bejo who was in The Artist.
Anyone seen it yet? What do you think?
This week sees the release of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby on our shores. I haven’t read any reviews of the film, I’ll see it for myself thanks and I actually read F Scott Fitzgerald’s book yesterday. Going on what I read, I can see how music could be incorporated into the film at Gatsby’s lavish parties.
I love Baz Luhrmann and have written some articles about different Luhrmann projects in the pages of this blog. I’ll write a full post on the movie when I see it this week but Luhrmann’s use of music in his films has always intrigued me. From John Paul Young in Strictly Ballroom to the echoey refrain of Garbage’s #1 Crush in Romeo and Juliet and the use of ‘love’ songs in Moulin Rouge. I’m looking forward to seeing how much of a character music plays in The Great Gatsby.
Just as I was about to post this Lana Del Ray’s new video ‘Young and Beautiful’, which is taken from the soundtrack was unveiled. Here is it: