JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY
DECONSTRUCTING DAD
FAMILY BAND: THE COWSILLS STORY
‘essential viewing’ Time Out New York
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 2 / 1.30pm / 98 minutes
Director: Stan Warnow 2012 US
Winner, Gold Medal Award, Park City Film Music Festival
Winner, Best Documentary Feature Award, Atlantic City
Film Festival
This personal documentary is a comprehensive exploration of
the life of musician/inventor/visionary Raymond Scott. Swing
music, electronica, music for films, Warner Brothers animation,
records, TV and radio – Raymond Scott created all this and much
more. Presented from the unique perspective of Stan Warnow,
his film-maker son, the film is also a personal quest to unravel the
timeless fabric of love, connection and rejection that are a part of
every parent-child relationship.
With special guest Stan Warnow
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 90 minutes
Directors: Bill Filipiak, Louise Palanker 2011 US
With their first Top 40 hit ‘The Rain, The Park and Other Things’,
The Cowsills may well have been the first Sunshine Pop band.
They are the real-life inspiration behind TV’s The Partridge Family,
but The Cowsills’ lives were no sitcom. Darkness lurks beneath
the lilting harmonies and optimistic, innocent melodies; their
story is raw, honest, tragic, beautiful – and the music sublime.
Amazing footage of the band, photographs and interviews with
the Cowsills today all serve to create a moving portrait of the
family as they share their lives, love of music and the dichotomy
of their public persona versus their private struggles.
With special guest Louise Palanker
BAD BRAINS: A BAND IN DC
AUTOLUMINESCENT
Mon 17 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.30pm / 104 minutes
Directors: Mandy Stein, Ben Logan 2012 US
‘As Henry Rollins states early on in Bad Brains: Band in DC,
a definitive documentary on the legendary hardcore band is
long overdue. “Legendary” is even understating it a bit, as Bad
Brains helped to invent what we know as American hardcore,
taking inspiration from the Sex Pistols and The Damned, melding
it with their own funk and soul-inspired musicality, a “positive
attitude message”, and an electric performance style to birth a
beast all their own. As a history of Bad Brains and an archive of
their incredible performances in the early ’80s, this film
is a treasure chest of gems.’
Katie Walsh, Indiewire
Tues 18 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6pm / 110 minutes
Directors: Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn 2011
Australia
From myth to legend, Rowland Howard (member of dark rock
masters The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution and These
Immortal Souls) appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene
like a phantom out of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt,
gothic aristocrat, Rowland was impeccable, with obscure tastes
and a unique, distinctive guitar attack that shot him directly into
the imagination of a generation. Beginning in the wild days of
Australian 70s pub rock with Nick Cave, the film delves into the
promising beginnings, the overseas ventures, the falling out with
friends and lovers, and the late career renaissance before illness
claimed Howard too soon in 2009.
Music blogger Nialler9 will host a discussion on music
documentaries with film-makers including Allison and
Tiffany Anders on Sunday 16 February. See page 63.
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