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Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come& Ray Davies: Imaginary ManUK // 80 MIN // $12 EACH OR $20 TOGETHERFriday 4-17 // Society for Arts7:00 PM // Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come with Q&A8:55 PM // Ray Davies: Imaginary Man with introA rare double-feature treat for fans of Britain’s most underratedlegendary band. Julien Temple grew up nearthe Davies family and used to cut school to hang outat the pub where The Kinks drank. He indulges his lifelonglove of the band (about which he has also been atwork on a narrative film) in this pair of wistful, eloquentBBC documentaries. Imaginary Man and KinkdomCome track the Davies brothers through their favoritehaunts - North London for Ray, the Exmoor countrysidefor Dave - as they candidly reflect on their working-classupbringing, The Kinks’ many musical phases, theirstormy fraternal relationship, and their divergent, deeplypersonal responses to fame. (followed by Q&A withJulien Temple)OIL CITY CONFIDENTIALOil City ConfidentialUK // 104 MIN // $12Saturday 4-18 // 1:45 PMLogan Theatre 3Briefly popular then largely forgotten, Dr. Feelgood “fellthrough a gasoline crack in history,” guitarist Wilko Johnsonsays. Oil City Confidential rectifies that gap in musichistory, chronicling the influential English band whosegutbucket R&B blasted through the pomp rock bloat ofthe ‘70s and helped clear the way for punk. Abetted bythe charismatic Johnson, a natural-born storyteller whosechopping guitar and onstage strut defined the Feelgoodsin their prime. Director Julien Temple beautifully locatesthe band’s soul in the mud flats and plants of CanveyIsland, their flood-prone home in the Thames River estuary.(followed by Q&A with Julien Temple)CHICAGO PREMIEREThe Ecstasy ofWilko JohnsonUK // 91 MIN // $12Saturday 4-18 // 4 PM // Logan Theatre 1In early 2013 ex-Dr. Feelgood guitarist, songwriter,and showman Wilko Johnson was diagnosedwith inoperable pancreatic cancer. Givena few months to live, he recorded a final album,went on a farewell tour, and told the world thathe’d never felt more acutely, joyously alive. Buta funny thing happened on the way to Valhalla:the months ticked by, and Wilko didn’t die. JulienTemple, who’d been enchanted by Johnson’s witand erudition while making the Feelgoods doc OilCity Confidential (also screening at CIMMFest),was there for the ride. The result is an upliftingexploration of how to live with impending death,and what to do when you’re then sentenced tolive. (followed by Q&A with Julien Temple)RIO 50 DEGREESRio 50 DegreesUK // 93 MIN // $12Sunday 4-19 // 12:00 PMLogan Theatre 3If you don’t speak metric, 50° Celsius = 122°Fahrenheit, and this portrait captures the heat ofRio de Janeiro in every sense. The third in Temple’sseries of music-minded urban histories (followingRequiem for Detroit? and London – TheModern Babylon), this is a 360-degree view ofRio in all its contrasts: black and white, rich andpoor, Catholic and Candomble, CopacabanaBeach and the hillside favelas. Artfully mixing oldmovies and news footage with striking contemporaryviews, Temple shows how Rio became thecity it izs, not as imagined by tourists, but as livedand shaped by millions of Cariocas, perpetuallyon the move and never without a beat. (followedby Q&A with Julien Temple)JULIEN TEMPLE RETROSPECTIVECHICAGO INTERNATIONAL MOVIES & MUSIC FESTIVAL // CIMMfest.org // 13