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Beefeater In-Edit 2011 Complete Program
INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SELECTION :: NATIONAL OFFICIAL SELECTION :: TRIBUTE TO MURRAY LERNER :: LONDON'S BACKSTAGE: ALL-NIGHT MARATHON (From London to Isle of Wight) :: UNMISSABLE :: EXCEDLENTS :: AWARDS
INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SELECTION
BLAZE FOLEY: DUCT TAPE MESSIAH
Kevin Triplett / USA / 2011 / 60’
The Texan troubadour of country protest songs, whose art mattered less than his story. True master in the art of self-sabotage, Foley is judged in an unusual film that doesn’t pull any punches. A career steeped in setbacks and a sh*t-ton of booze, with only one person to blame: himself.
BRÖTZMANN
René Jeuckens, Thomas Mau, Grischa Windus / Germany / 2011 / 80’
Free of archive material but full of evocation and memory, this film paints a portrait of the German saxophonist, painter and master of European free jazz, highlighting his pragmatism and spirituality. But above all, his constant and noble solitude.
BURY THE HATCHET
Aaron Walker / USA / 2010 / 86’
The Treme series, in the flesh. The New Orleans Indians, clubs filled with black men who dress as Native Americans for Mardi Gras, battling hurricanes and the police. The story of a tradition upheld, proud in the face of oppression.
COLOR ME OBSESSED, A FILM ABOUT THE REPLACEMENTS
Gorman Bechard / USA / 2011 / 123’’
The humorous, tragic saga of this dysfunctional cult ‘80s band could only be told in a different sort of documentary. Dynamic and journalistic with neither music, nor original footage (hardly even a photo of the band! Not even the band!). The result is pure oral picaresque punk.
LAST DAYS HERE
Don Argott, Demian Fenton / USA / 2011 / 90’
Spinal Tap made our sides ache and Anvil was bittersweet, but the last laugh stops here. Singer for hard-rockers Pentagram, Bobby Liebling agonizes from the 70’s in the paternal basement, knocking back the crack. The drama of his downfall, so exaggerated it seems unreal, transforms becomes a hymn of resurrection.
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI
Michael Radford / France, Germany, Italy / 2011 / 98’’
Legend and portrait of a French virtuoso jazz pianist who refused to be disabled. A study of difference, personified in his little body. How dwarfism forged a meteorite of genius, vitality and thirst for life, and no shortage of pride.
O SAMBA QUE MORA EM MIM
Georgia Guerra-Peixe / Brazil / 2010 / 72’
There is as story behind every dancer at the Rio Carnival. The private lives and loves, the joys and woes of these citizens throughout the 364 days of the year when there is no parade. Normal folk in a story that dispenses with music to focus on pure existence.
PASSIONE. A MUSICAL ADVENTURE
John Turturro / Italy, USA / 2010 / 90’
John Turturro takes us on a stroll with songs “bathed in contradiction, humour and irony”. This is Neapolitan music: passionate, melodramatic and feral. A city painted with sound, melodies that amount to pure theatre, about jealousy, desire and love gone bad.
TALIHINA SKY: THE STORY OF KINGS OF LEON
Stephen C. Mitchell/ USA / 2011 / 88;’
A portrait of a musical family with the farm in the background, sans glamour or tours... Kings of Leon are pure Southern white trash. A film of extreme contrasts – groupies and videos side-by-side with snakes, rifles and one-eyed dogs – that explores their rural blood and deep roots.
TROUBADOURS
Morgan Neville / USA / 2011 / 92’
They called them the mellow mafia, but their intimate emotional narrative has yet to be beaten: James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and others offer us the true saga of the singer songwriters from Laurel Canyon and their road to excess and fame.
JAIME URRUTIA: LA FUERZA DE LA COSTUMBRE
Carlos Duarte Quin / Spain / 2011 / 115’
The great storyteller of Spanish pop and ex-leader of Gabinete Caligari disembowels his inner world in his own voice, unwavering poise and the grace of a bullfighter. Frowning artisan of the old school, Urrutia opens his archives, with the help of Loquillo, Alaska and other heavyweights.
NEXT MUSIC STATION: MOROCCO
Fermín Muguruza / Spain, Qatar / 2011 / 100’
Morocco and its sonic landscape with Oum. The Moroccan singer drives Fermin Muguruza and the spectator through every city and style: flamenco or gnawa, the sounds of houra, mestizo or rap in a constant toing and froing between staunch tradition and blasting modernity.
PAPAGORDO. EN CASA DE RAIMUNDO AMADOR
Laura Llamas, Víctor Morilla / Spain / 2011 / 60’’
Heroes in slippers. The nickname bestowed to him by his granddaughter entitles a family documentary like few others. This ain’t the guitar genius we know, but the guy at the fishmongers, father of six, that complains his kidneys hurt. A universal talent stoked by family, affection and home.
AMAZING JOURNEY: THE STORY OF THE WHO
Paul Crowder , Murray Lerner / UK, USA / 2007 / 120’
FESTIVAL!
Murray Lerner / USA / 1967 / 98’
Synthesizing four festivals in Newport, from 1963 to 1966, Festival! is a striking summary of the evolution of folk music. If it moves, Lerner films it: from fans to demigods like Dylan. The testimony oozes community, authenticity and comradeship.
FROM MAO TO MOZART: ISAAC STERN IN CHINA
Murray Lerner / USA / 1980 / 114’
The English violinist receives an invitation by the Chinese government in 1979 to visit their country. Debates on Mozart and the corrupt face of the “cultural revolution” in an Oscar-winning music documentary that surpasses its genre.
MESSAGE TO LOVE: THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL
Murray Lerner / UK, USA / 1997 / 121’
Love is over. Alongside Altamont, The Isle of Wight Festival of 1970 symbolizes the end of the hippy dream, the struggle between rebellion and commerce. A stage that brims with doomed rockstars (Hendrix, Morrison) and an audience on the verge of an armed uprising.
MILES ELECTRIC: A DIFFERENT KIND OF BLUE
Murray Lerner / USA / 2004 / 87’
Lerner always got the most out of the Isle of Wight Festival, but he never scraped the barrel for footage. The peak of the electrification of Miles’ “spiritual orgasm” (Santana dixit), this brilliant film captures the great iconoclast before 600.000 freaks, on August 29th 1970.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR: BOB DYLAN AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL
Murray Lerner / USA / 2007 / 83’
The sound of Dylan fleeing (from folk music). A fascinating snapshot of his radical evolution in three years: from timid Woody Guthrie wannabe to sarcastic rockstar in the making. Did the audience boo in 1965 when he picked up his electric axe. The answer is here.
BLUE WILD ANGEL: JIMI HENDRIX AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Murray Lerner / USA / 2002 / 118’
The Apocalypse Now-like chaos of the Isle of Wight 1970 is the rugged landscape before which the great, black guitar-hero burns in his concert on August 31st, at 2am. From “God Save the Queen” to “Purple Haze” in 56? 118? Check with Rosa unforgettable minutes of acid rock engulfed in flames.
LEONARD COHEN: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Murray Lerner / 2009 / USA / 65’
A mystical, longhaired Leonard Cohen stars in a new Lerner rehash of the Isle of Wight 1970 universe. Further gone than his audience, the poet that loved women unfolds his charms and freezes anarchy in a whisper. Be afraid.
LISTENING TO YOU: THE WHO AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Murray Lerner / UK, USA / 1970 / 86’
A thousand thrashes and two thousand guitar slashes. 85 minutes of the world’s greatest group let rip against everything. Classics, Tommy, rock’n’roll and jazz standards (“Young Man Blues”) and even an unreleased number (“Water”). Fringes to the wind and drums shredded to ribbons. Unforgettable, dear friends.
CRACKED ACTOR: DAVID BOWIE
Alan Yentob / UK / 1974 / 54’
The famous film about the musician’s stint in Los Angeles in 1974. An unstable, skeletal and paranoid Bowie in the full throes of cocaine addiction, talks about anxiety, cut-ups, rock stardom and alter egos while his hits keep on hitting the jackpot. Unsettling.
ACCION! THE STORY OF LA FURA DELS BAUS
Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe / Germany, Spain / 2010 / 82’
Or how nine small town Catalans form an extreme theatre company and garner international fame. A fascinating saga– and not one devoid of desertions or dissentions - seen through foreign eyes that sublimate images as explosive as their art.
AGUSTÍ FERNÀNDEZ - LOS DEDOS HUÉSPEDES
Lucas Caraba / Spain / 2011 / 45’
More interview than documentary, the pianist explains his method in a masterclass that unravels into a relaxed conversation. Free of archaeology or biographies: this is just Fernández, revealing himself through his pieces and the musicians that accompany him.
BENDA BILILI!
Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye / Rep. Dem. Congo, France / 2010 / 85’
The remarkable story of a disabled Congolese musical group, rejecting any condescending cliché to express its fight against poverty and desperation. A film about survival and affirmation of life, which finally yields a happy ending.
BETTER THAN SOMETHING: JAY REATARD
Alex Hammond, Ian Markiewicz / USA / 2010 / 91’
A crude celebration of the prolific garage rocker from Memphis, irate punk-rocker and underground artist elevated to global phenomenon and filmed just months before his death. Without sentimentalism, friends and family members divulge his ambition, misery and greatest pieces.
DAVE BRUBECK: IN HIS OWN SWEET WAY
Bruce Ricker / USA / 2010 / 91’
Genius, pioneer, performer of “Take five” and all in all, a great guy. An educational and elegant film with a classic Hollywood air, Clint Eastwood’s sponsorship and the BBC signature that fits the Californian jazzman that transcended Cool… like a glove.
EL NIÑO MIGUEL
Nacho Martín / Spain / 2011 / 27’
The dark side of Amador. One of flamenco’s greatest musicians lives oscillating between addiction and forgetting, playing his three-string guitar in the bars of Huelva. We follow the wounded guitarist in daily decline (but never defeat).
GALICIA CANÍBAL
Antón Reixa / Spain / 2011 / 52’
The Galician scene of the ‘80s, narrated by Antón Reixa (Os Resentidos). Germán Copini (Siniestro Total), Julián Hernández (Golpes Bajos) and other pillars excavate the humour, punk rebellion, turmoil and freshness of that seminal Northern new wave.
GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
Martin Scorsese / USA / 2011 / 208’
Lennon once said that a mystery lived inside George. Martin Scorsese deciphers the enigma in a profound documentary that also encapsulates a reflection on success and failure. Yoko Ono, McCartney, Clapton and others analyse his transition from kid to Beatle, and beyond.
KINKDOM COME - DAVE DAVIES
Julien Temple / UK / 2011 / 77’
Hilarious and painful in equal measure, this is the story of the Kink in the shadows. Julien Temple combines family footage, recent interviews and golden oldies to create a portrait that encompasses generational saga, an analysis of innate rebellion and cops a friendly look back at the ‘60s.
KOMEDA - A SOUNDTRACK FOR A LIFE
Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy / Germany, Polonia / 2010 / 52’
A story made up of many: jazz and revolution, the Polish exodus, the melancholy of a private young man and his construction of a thousand exceptional soundtracks from Polimoski and Wajda’s short films to Hollywood, at the hand of Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby).
LOVE SHINES - RON SEXSMITH
Douglas Arrowsmith / Canadá / 2010 / 87’
A film that departs from the stereotypical portrait of a cult singer-songwriter to delve into his recent mutation: Ron Sexsmith, Canadian pop poet, submits to the orders of Bob Rock (producer of Aerosmith) and aspires to success. To understand his decision, we must cast our eyes backwards.
MAMA AFRICA
Mika Kaurismäki / Finlandia, Germany, Sudáfrica / 2011 / 89’
Never has a political struggle come wrapped in a bigger smile. A classic-format documentary explains the hundred facets of de Miriam Makeba: woman-mother-grandma, anti-apartheid fighter, wife of a Black Panther and international superstar with a sublime voice.
MICHAEL NYMAN IN PROGRESS
Silvia Beck / Germany / 2010 / 80’
PAOLO ANGELI
Vincent Moon / Italy / 2011 / 10’
The most beautiful aberration. Sardinian musician-luthier Paolo Angeli has a guitar that’s quite the gothic monster: full of cables and springs, it sounds like a train (delightfully) derailing. Here are nine minutes of his art, al fresco, while the sun dips over the island.
QUEEN - DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Matt O'Casey / UK / 2011 / 123’
An extensive documentary for a biblical career. Their story, from the uncool group to world dominating force, from support act for Mott the Hoople to Live Aid, told disc by disc (and anecdote by anecdote) in sober BBC style. It hasn’t all been said, you’ll see.
QUIERO TENER UNA FERRETERÍA EN ANDALUCÍA
Carles Prats / Spain / 2011 / 70’
A delightful look at the Joe Strummer’s “lost years” in the south of Spain. Humane and rich in anecdotes of daily life, this is an affectionate homage to the ex-Clash, construed with shade, pale rum, spaghetti western, 091 and a boatload of local camaraderie.
RAY DAVIES - IMAGINARY MAN
Julien Temple / UK / 2010 / 78’
We need Ray Davies like we need the NHS. A great monument to memory and lost places, a profile of the Englishest misanthrope in English pop and a sublime message about belonging to a place: North London. Essential!
ROCK RADIKAL VASCO
Begoña Atutxa / Spain / 2011 / 55’
Paternal silence became the cry of the sons. An enlightening depiction of Spain’s most radical, angry, straight-up (if self-destructive) movement. From Santurtzi to Bilbao, from Zarama and Eskorbuto to Hertzainak and Kortatu.
STEVE REICH - PHASE TO FACE
Eric Darmon, Franck Mallet / Germany / 2009 / 52’
The processes, illuminations and enthusiasms of the brain of the minimalist musician and proto-sampler extraordinaire. Quotes by Wittgenstein, Hebrew hymns, white men with primitive drums and the delirium of repetition, on tour and in his voice.
THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
Marie Losier / USA / 2011 / 75’
A Frankenstein-ish love story. Not content with changing the rock’n’roll landscape, the industrial musician decided to double dare biology. The unique story of his most radical cut-up: the destruction and reconstruction of himself and his partner, into the same person, through surgery.
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975
Göran Hugo Olsson / Suecia / 2011 / 100’
The discovery of the year. An unearthing of vast footage of nine years of black nationalism filmed with fresh eyes by a group of Swedish journalists. The present director remixes the original footage alongside Questlove, Erykah Badu and others. Brilliant!
THE LIBERTINES: THERE ARE NO INNOCENT BYSTANDERS
Roger Sargent / UK / 2011 / 89’
2010 saw the alliance of vice reunite. This film combines epiphanies and sleaze –r’n’r and poetry, bohemian dreams, heroine and crack, fame and supermodels – with present history to tell the strange story of Pete Doherty and Carl Barât. Alive!
THE SACRED TRIANGLE: BOWIE, IGGY & LOU 1971-1973
Alec Lindsell / USA / 2010 / 107’
The Sacred Triangle: Bowie, Iggy & Lou 1971-1973
In three crucial years, the careers of three geniuses intertwined, to their own benefit and that of humanity. The ins and outs of the maelstrom of influences that gave birth to Ziggy, Transformer and Raw Power are told here minute by minute. Luxurious.
THEY CALL IT ACID - A DANCE MUSIC FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Gordon Mason / UK / 2009 / 110’
Acid House explained to its children. A saga of dancetastic, loving hedonism that gestates in clubs but unwinds in anti-establishment resistance From the Shoom and the TB303 to the barricades and illegal raves in a sober film, brimming with DJs and protagonists.
TO DE RE PER A MANDOLINA I CLARINET
Jordi Turtós / Spain / 2011 / 51’
The untold story of a scene wiped from the Barcelona map: the Ona Laietana (and its home, Zeleste). A film that unites modern musicians with founding partners to reveal the axis, roots and legacy of a progressive Catalan music style that was murdered by punk.
TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS: REGGAE GOT SOUL
George Scott / UK / 2011 / 60’
Eric Clapton put his finger on it: “Toots is a soul singer”. The life of Otis Redding, Jamaican, layman’s hero and raconteur of Island life, from gospel to ska and through to reggae. Keith Richards, Jimmy Cliff, Bonnie Raitt and others bless his name.
WHO TOOK THE BOMP? LE TIGRE ON TOUR
Kerthy Fix / USA / 2010 / 72’
On the road with the world’s most politicized and entertaining electro-punk feminist trio. Vulnerable but indomitable, Kathleen Hanna and company travel the world, changing minds with aerobic and anti-fascist rhythms. Humour included! (and all their hits).
