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JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARYDECONSTRUCTING DADFAMILY BAND: THE COWSILLS STORY‘essential viewing’ Time Out New YorkSun 16 Feb / Light House 2 / 1.30pm / 98 minutesDirector: Stan Warnow 2012 USWinner, Gold Medal Award, Park City Film Music FestivalWinner, Best Documentary Feature Award, Atlantic CityFilm FestivalThis personal documentary is a comprehensive exploration ofthe life of musician/inventor/visionary Raymond Scott. Swingmusic, electronica, music for films, Warner Brothers animation,records, TV and radio – Raymond Scott created all this and muchmore. Presented from the unique perspective of Stan Warnow,his film-maker son, the film is also a personal quest to unravel thetimeless fabric of love, connection and rejection that are a part ofevery parent-child relationship.With special guest Stan WarnowSun 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 90 minutesDirectors: Bill Filipiak, Louise Palanker 2011 USWith 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 beneaththe lilting harmonies and optimistic, innocent melodies; theirstory is raw, honest, tragic, beautiful – and the music sublime.Amazing footage of the band, photographs and interviews withthe Cowsills today all serve to create a moving portrait of thefamily as they share their lives, love of music and the dichotomyof their public persona versus their private struggles.With special guest Louise PalankerBAD BRAINS: A BAND IN DCAUTOLUMINESCENTMon 17 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.30pm / 104 minutesDirectors: 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 islong overdue. “Legendary” is even understating it a bit, as BadBrains helped to invent what we know as American hardcore,taking inspiration from the Sex Pistols and The Damned, meldingit with their own funk and soul-inspired musicality, a “positiveattitude message”, and an electric performance style to birth abeast all their own. As a history of Bad Brains and an archive oftheir incredible performances in the early ’80s, this filmis a treasure chest of gems.’Katie Walsh, IndiewireTues 18 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6pm / 110 minutesDirectors: Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn 2011AustraliaFrom myth to legend, Rowland Howard (member of dark rockmasters The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution and TheseImmortal Souls) appeared on the early Melbourne punk scenelike a phantom out of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt,gothic aristocrat, Rowland was impeccable, with obscure tastesand a unique, distinctive guitar attack that shot him directly intothe imagination of a generation. Beginning in the wild days ofAustralian 70s pub rock with Nick Cave, the film delves into thepromising beginnings, the overseas ventures, the falling out withfriends and lovers, and the late career renaissance before illnessclaimed Howard too soon in 2009.Music blogger Nialler9 will host a discussion on musicdocumentaries with film-makers including Allison andTiffany Anders on Sunday 16 February. See page 63.BOOK ONLINE AT JDIFF.COM 33