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Crazy, an award-winning film about Nashville guitarist Hank Garland, is being officially released the weekend of July 11…opening in one NY theater.
CRAZY has won major awards at 2008 festivals, including Best Feature honors at Colorado’s Breckenridge Festival of Film — where Payne also won for Best Actor — and the Hoboken Film Festival. The film also won the Vanguard Award, top honor at the Jacksonville International Film Festival in Jacksonville, FL. Hank Garland lived the last four decades of his life near Jacksonville with his brother (and manager) Billy Garland and Billy’s wife Amy, who attended the screening.
This undoubtedly well-produced film about a talented fellow will soon join the ranks of biographical treatments of one of the thousands of the session musicians that we should have apparently known about.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad follows the band Acrassicauda and the fun times of being musicians in the middle of a war.
The DVD comes out June 10, but there are limited screenings in L.A. and New York coming up. Check the site for dates and locations.
A Rolling Stone writer was impressed with U2’s three-dimensional concert film U2 3D, however, it gave Jay-Z a headache.
“Jay seemed into it at first, but by “Sunday Bloody Sunday” he took the 3D glasses off and was rubbing his temples as if his brain was going through image overload. By the time The Edge was strapping his guitar on for “Bullet the Blue Sky,” he and his crew were long gone.”
Moby is licensing his music for free to student and independent filmmakers through Mobygratis.com. There are 70 unreleased pieces of music on the site up for grabs that were specifically written for use in film. From the site:
you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short.
the music is free as long as it’s being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.
The DVD that came out Nov 20, Heima, will be show in theaters starting next week. The film chronicles performances by Sigur Rós in the summer of 2006.
12/18, 7:30pm - San Francisco CA - Embarcadero Center Cinema
12/18, 7:30pm - Denver CO - Chez Artiste
12/19, 8pm - Boston MA - Kendall Square Cinema
12/19, 8pm - Atlanta GA - Midtown Art Center
12/20, 8pm - Austin TX - Dobie Theatre
12/20, 8pm - Seattle WA - Metro Cinemas
Tickets are available here.
The Nick Cave and Warren Ellis score for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, along with the DVD of the film, will come out on Feb 5, 2008. Purchase the (DRM-free) score from iTunes.
Seth Rogen, star of Knocked Up, recently met up with Huey Lewis to discuss penning the theme to his next feature The Pineapple Express.
“Seth’s looking for something in the vein of ‘Power of Love,’” says a source, referring to Huey Lewis and the News’s 1985 hit, which was the theme song to Back to the Future.
For a preview clip of the film, check out our sister.
Louis-Rene Hache, of Montreal, was recently arrested for video taping the film Dan in Real Life in a Canadian theater. He was caught by a $5,000 night vision system the theater was using to detect camera lenses. The Canadian government first deemed “camcording” films illegal last June. Should Hache be convicted of recording the film for profit he could spend up to five years in jail.
(link, Insulinfunk)
U2 plans to re-release their 1987 hit, Joshua Tree, in celebration of its 20th birthday, November 20th. It’s being released in several formats (including vinyl) and bonus materials will likely contain unreleased demos B-sides, and a documentary for the bonus DVD.
Jay-Z is working on a new album, inspired by the upcoming film American Gangster:
Upon seeing the movie, Jay said he immediately connected to Denzel Washington’s character, Frank Lucas, who was an early-‘70s “Harlem heroin kingpin,” according to the NYTimes. So, he’s making a concept album inspired by the film.
