Eccentric musicians
Tuesday, 1. November 2005, 17:48:05
Perhaps we should start an ongoing program called "eccentric musicians."
One of the biggest hits of this last year was the Flaming Lips movie, THE FEARLESS FREAKS FEATURING THE FLAMING LIPS. FEARLESS FREAKS is also probably one of the best movies we've shown over the last few years.
Other eccentric musician movies have included:
Starting this Thursday, we're adding to that robust tradition with a movie called DERAILROADED: INSIDE THE MIND OF WILD MAN FISCHER. A one-time protégé of Frank Zappa ("protégé" in the original French sense of "someone protected by" Frank Zappa), Fischer was / is a street performer who howled songs at passersby, threatened his mother with a knife, and has been in and out of mental institutions his whole life. DERAILROADED spends an extended period of time with Fischer and his clan, getting to know the man in all his demented glory and genius while simultaneously documenting his history. It's a moody and powerful movie; the Wild Man himself is infinitely fascinating (and dangerous).
A note though: please don't show up expecting DERAILED. That's the Jennifer Aniston movie opening elsewhere some time soon, distributed by the Weinstein company. (Un?)fortunately, Jennifer Aniston makes no appearance in DERAILROADED. The nearly simultaneous scheduling / titling was, at least on our end, completely coincidental.
So DERAILROADED is the featured movie this coming week. But Thursday night, at 7pm, we're running another movie featuring an eccentric musician, albeit in a different way. Yes, that's right, I'm talking about the rapper Coolio, making his European acting debut in A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT. This is the first in a monthly series of Croatian movies, taking place the first Thursday of every month, presented with the Doors Art Foundation. I'm excited about this series, and I look forward to the films. Sadly, though, I suspect this will be the only one featuring Coolio.
DERAILROADED: INSIDE THE MIND OF WILD MAN FISCHER
A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT
Coolio
A picture of Coolio in A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT:
One of the biggest hits of this last year was the Flaming Lips movie, THE FEARLESS FREAKS FEATURING THE FLAMING LIPS. FEARLESS FREAKS is also probably one of the best movies we've shown over the last few years.
Other eccentric musician movies have included:
- YOU THINK YOU REALLY KNOW ME, about Gary Wilson, eccentric 70s psychedelia musician who now works in a dirty bookstore in San Diego
- STRANGER: BERNIE WORRELL ON EARTH, about the mind-blowingly great keyboardist from Parliament / Funkadelic (presented a few months ago with Slamdance)
- BEAUTIFUL DREAMER: BRIAN WILSON AND THE STORY OF SMiLE, about the most important of the Beach Boys (presented last year with CMJ)
- LOW IN EUROPE, about the Mormon mood rockers from Duluth, Minnesota (read some big news about them here
Starting this Thursday, we're adding to that robust tradition with a movie called DERAILROADED: INSIDE THE MIND OF WILD MAN FISCHER. A one-time protégé of Frank Zappa ("protégé" in the original French sense of "someone protected by" Frank Zappa), Fischer was / is a street performer who howled songs at passersby, threatened his mother with a knife, and has been in and out of mental institutions his whole life. DERAILROADED spends an extended period of time with Fischer and his clan, getting to know the man in all his demented glory and genius while simultaneously documenting his history. It's a moody and powerful movie; the Wild Man himself is infinitely fascinating (and dangerous).
A note though: please don't show up expecting DERAILED. That's the Jennifer Aniston movie opening elsewhere some time soon, distributed by the Weinstein company. (Un?)fortunately, Jennifer Aniston makes no appearance in DERAILROADED. The nearly simultaneous scheduling / titling was, at least on our end, completely coincidental.
So DERAILROADED is the featured movie this coming week. But Thursday night, at 7pm, we're running another movie featuring an eccentric musician, albeit in a different way. Yes, that's right, I'm talking about the rapper Coolio, making his European acting debut in A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT. This is the first in a monthly series of Croatian movies, taking place the first Thursday of every month, presented with the Doors Art Foundation. I'm excited about this series, and I look forward to the films. Sadly, though, I suspect this will be the only one featuring Coolio.
DERAILROADED: INSIDE THE MIND OF WILD MAN FISCHER
A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT
Coolio
A picture of Coolio in A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT:
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