Cool Sound + Vision Fest 2015 Heats Up Film Society of Lincoln Center

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Published on Monday, 27 July 2015 21:46

Written by Brad Balfour

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Sound + Vision series explores a range of musical artists, genres, and styles offering both premieres and retrospectives. This year’s edition, the third running from July 29 - August 7, 2015, includes music documentaries that spans styles as diverse as Dominguinhos (directed by Mariana Aydar, Joaquim Castro, Eduardo Nazarian) — a moving portrait of the Latin Grammy-winning singer, composer, and master accordion player who rose to prominence playing with hitmakers Toquinho, Gal Costa, and Gilberto Gil — to In Search of Haydn (directed by Phil Grabsky) a 2012 documentary about the life and inventive work of Joseph Haydn, a composer who influenced both Mozart and Beethoven and crucially shaped chamber music.

Also included is James Szalapski’s low-key 1976 country-music classic, Heartworn Highways, shot in Austin and Nashville, which features a mix of early performances by bands in the “Outlaw Country” movement, as well as snapshots of more intimate moments. As a result,  2015’s Heartworn Highways Revisited (directed by Wayne Price) will be shown as well.  Channeling the spirit and unhurried, intimate style of Szalapski’s original, this doc follows talented young musicians on the outskirts of the Nashville scene today. Director Wayne Price and musicians Shelly Colvin and Phil Hummer will on hand for a Q&A.

The legendary documentarian and music-video director Julien Temple will be spotlighted as  a fellow traveler of seminal English rockers like The Clash, The Kinks, and the Sex Pistols. He gets his due with a retrospective highlighting both his greatest and his latest, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson and will be in attendance. 

The Wilco Johnson film thoroughly deconstructs the traditional format of docs and is a must see for anyone interested in non-fiction films or classic rockers.

Also noteworthy is the debut of Danny Says, a chronicle of the outrageous and brilliant counterculture career of Danny Fields, confidant of Warhol superstars Edie Sedgwick and Nico, and the man who helped get major record label deals for bands like the Ramones and The Stooges. Director Brendan Toller will be on hand for a post screening discussion.

The series also features three live multimedia performances by Talibam!, Preston Spurlock & Friends, and Foxes in Fiction in The Film Society’s amphitheater.

In addition, Film Society photographer David Godlis will feature a companion exhbition of his seminal pictures of New York punk rock scene that included such major music makers as the Ramones, Blondie and Television.

This year’s edition again offers both a testament to the enduring and mutually enriching relationship between cinema and music and an extension of the range of sounds to be considered.

To learn more, go to: http://www.filmlinc.org

Sound + Vision 2015
July 29 - August 7, 2015

The Film Society of Lincoln Center

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