On Friday (9th May) I went to see Control at the Duke of York’s cinema in Brighton. I went with a keen movie-going friend of mine. My interest in the film was piqued by the fact that I’ve been impressed with some photography I’ve seen by the director Anton Corbijn. I’ve also seen one video by Anton Corbijn which I really liked. This was not a music video but rather an artistic video build around an interview with the alternative pop/rock icon Captain Beefheart. Anyway this was Anton Corbijn’s first feature film and is focussed on the short life of Ian Curtis, lead singer with the late seventies group Joy Division. (more…)
Filed under: anne, cinema, film, music | Tags: Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stones, Shine a Light
Lately, the Rolling Stones are reviving their (hi)story the grand way – right there on the cinema screen, supported by Martin Scorsese, director of films like The Departed or – perhaps most famously – Goodfellas. Intrigued by seeing the story of such an epic rock group depicted through the eyes and ears of Scorsese, I went along to watch one and a half hours of the New York concert of the Stones, called “Shine a Light”.
I agree with Mr Lynch on this one, but I really don’t think it’s a case of ‘getting real’. That implies that there is a correct way to watch a film, a correct location and method of screening. Throughout cinema’s short history it has already seen a range of different ways of experiencing films, from the mutoscope to the multiplex, and the technological changes have affected both how films are made and, thereafter, our internalised sensory perception.
