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Last year’s Soundtrack Festival featured the premiere of Danny Boyle’s acclaimed
Slumdog Millionaire. This year, Cardiff’s film and music festival is hosting an eclectic,
exciting panel of events. Buzz caught up with the organisers to find out more.
words: PAUL MARTIN
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ovies and music go together like a and the Coal Exchange. release of records by My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus
horse and carriage, like love and One of the big names already confirmed for the 2009 and Mary Chain, Oasis, and Primal Scream, amongst
marriage, like a football manager and Soundtrack Film Festival is Velvet Underground others. Cineworld is the venue for “Upside Down:
an unmarked brown envelope stuffed founder member, acclaimed solo artist, producer, A Creation Records Evening,” where singer/guitar-
with non-consecutive bills, changing hands in the all-round musical deity and son of Wales, John ist Mark Gardener (formerly of Creation act Ride)
cafe section of a motorway garage. It’s a love affair to Cale. On Thurs 20 Nov Cale will take part in an In and director Danny O’Connor will discuss the label
rival Samson and Delilah. Only this one ain’t ending Conversation session at Cineworld Cardiff, where he and its legacy, and also preview the forthcoming
with no stinking haircut (excuse the double negative will discuss a film composing career that has seen documentary about Creation, entitled Upside Down
but it’s a loose bit of cinematic paraphrasing.) him score or co-score such disparate productions as (due out Feb 2010). Erstwhile Creation artists will
Just try to imagine how different Kubrick’s 2001: A Jonathan Demme’s Caged Heat and Something Wild, be paying tribute to the label as well, with the Coal
Space Odyssey would have been shorn of the epic Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat, and – appropriately, Exchange staging special musical event Recreation.
overture provided by Strauss’s Also Sprach Zara- given his Velvets past – Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Gardener will be amongst the line-up of performers
thustra. Imagine Woody Allen’s monochrome Man- Warhol. playing material from their days with Creation, and
hattan divested of the languid romance of Gersh- the gig is being headlined by local legends Super
win’s Rhapsody In Blue. Imagine all those Spielberg
Imagine Spielberg
Furry Animals, who will be dusting off tracks from
movies without John Williams’ orchestrations telling golden oldie LPs such as Fuzzy Logic and Radiator.
the audience what to feel... um, I mean setting the
movies without
And further Furries influence will be in evidence
scene. And where would Ghostbusters and Back To when the psychedelic-popsters’ very own Gruff Rhys
The Future have been minus the evergreen musical
orchestration telling
presents his rockumentary Seperado!, in which the
gifts of Ray Parker Jr. and Huey Lewis & The News charmingly ramshackle renaissance-frontman under-
respectively? Galloping up Diarrhoea Drive without a
the audience what
takes a South American musical odyssey.
saddle, that’s bloody where. If all that is not rock enough for you, then there is
So, given this symbiotic interdependence between
to feel
also a screening of All Tomorrow’s Parties, about
celluloid imagery and their accompanying musi- the indier-than-thou festivals staged under that
cal arrangements, doesn’t it seem like a grand old Following the chat, there will be a screening of another banner, and an appearance from Great Rock’n’Roll
idea to have some kind of big event celebrating this Harron film for which Cale penned the score, the 2000- Swindle director Julien Temple, who will be show-
relationship? A colourful convocation where you released movie adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s grisly casing his new Dr. Feelgood documentary feature
could watch movies, check out bands, and listen to satire American Psycho, starring Christian Bale as Oil City Confidential at Chapter on Sun 22 Nov. The
various big-name film bods shooting the breeze about serial killing Wall Street banker Patrick Bateman. And, Opening night of the festival will be illuminated by
what they think about the best tunes from their best on the following evening, the Coal Exchange hosts a presentation of restored Powell & Pressburger
movies? Well, if that be for ye intrepid traveller then When Past and Future Collide, which will see Cale classic The Red Shoes, while tribute is being paid
need look ye no further, because the Soundtrack Film performing his 1973 release Paris 1919 in its entirety to Hammer (that’s Hammer Horror films, not the
Festival returns to Cardiff this November, with live for the first time, anywhere, ever – an event surely glacial synths of Jan or the harem-panted vigour
shows and screenings taking place across the city worth the admission price just to hear that album’s of MC), via double-bill of chillers The Quatermass
from Wed 18-Sun 22 Nov. sublime title track played live (although happily the Xperiment and To Devil A Daughter.
Last year’s inaugural fest attracted the great and rest of the record is pretty wonderful too). The Festival also offers the chance to check out
the good of the filmmaking multiverse to the Welsh Also showing during the festival is the 2000 produc- independent buzz flicks Paper Heart and Bunny
capital, as the presence of such luminaries as Oscar- tion Beautiful Mistake, directed by My Little Eye And The Bull, in addition to such features as
winning Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting filmmaker Marc Evans and featuring Welsh artists Mugabe And The White African, Let Him Be, and
director Danny Boyle and Brazil star Jonathan Pryce such as James Dean Bradfield and Catatonia per- family animation Kirikou and the Sorceress. Plus,
sprinkled showbiz pixie-dust on an intelligent and forming material written by Cale. there will be opportunities for any grasping wan-
eclectic programme of new and classic movies alike. Rock n’ roll history is celebrated elsewhere at the nabe film-makers out there to get involved too, as
So it is surely cause for minor heart palpitations festival too, with a key section of the programme the European Audio-Visual Entrepreneurs (EAVE)
that the line up for this year’s event is beginning to being given over to events marking the 25th an- road show provides gilded chance to network with
take definite shape, with a raft of exciting events set niversary of Creation Records, the independent label industry hotshots and begin climbing that greasy
to take place at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cineworld, founded by Alan McGee in 1983 which oversaw the pole of power. Get scrabbling vermin!
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