To celebrate the release of Backbeat available on DVD and Blu-Ray on 6th May, we have a 2 Blu-Rays to give away!
The pre-fame Beatles head to Hamburg in search of success, as they gain popularity the “fifth Beatle” bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), falls in love and ultimately must choose between his best friend John Lennon, his new love, the 22-year-old German photographer Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee) and the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
The films soundtrack includes rock and roll classics performed by an indie-rock supergroup which includes Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Greg Dullis (The Afghan Whigs) and Henry Rollins (Black Flag) on vocals, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Don Fleming (Gumball) on guitar, Mike Mills (R.E.M.) on bass guitar and Dave Grohl (then of Nirvana now of Foo Fighters) on drums.
Backbeat opened the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive...
The pre-fame Beatles head to Hamburg in search of success, as they gain popularity the “fifth Beatle” bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), falls in love and ultimately must choose between his best friend John Lennon, his new love, the 22-year-old German photographer Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee) and the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
The films soundtrack includes rock and roll classics performed by an indie-rock supergroup which includes Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Greg Dullis (The Afghan Whigs) and Henry Rollins (Black Flag) on vocals, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Don Fleming (Gumball) on guitar, Mike Mills (R.E.M.) on bass guitar and Dave Grohl (then of Nirvana now of Foo Fighters) on drums.
Backbeat opened the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive...
- 5/3/2024
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars extensive and carefully curated exhibition runs through March 4, 2023 Photo: Ed Bahlman
On the morning of Tuesday, June 7, >music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman joined me for the press preview of Lou Reed: Caught Between The Twisted Stars at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Curators Don Fleming and Jason Stern along with Laurie Anderson acted as the media’s intimate tour guides through the extensive exhibition, which includes photos by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Mick Rock, Billy Name, and Julian Schnabel (Lou Reed’s Berlin) and connections to Reed with Andy Warhol, Robert Wilson, David Bowie, John Cale, Garland Jeffreys, Metallica, Sterling Morrison, Robert Quine, Mike Rathke, Fernando Saunders, Václav Havel, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, Delmore Schwartz, Anne Waldman, Doc Pomus, Hal Willner, and Laurie, plus some greetings cards by Moe (Maureen Tucker) to Lou, whom she affectionally calls Honey Bun.
On the morning of Tuesday, June 7, >music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman joined me for the press preview of Lou Reed: Caught Between The Twisted Stars at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Curators Don Fleming and Jason Stern along with Laurie Anderson acted as the media’s intimate tour guides through the extensive exhibition, which includes photos by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Mick Rock, Billy Name, and Julian Schnabel (Lou Reed’s Berlin) and connections to Reed with Andy Warhol, Robert Wilson, David Bowie, John Cale, Garland Jeffreys, Metallica, Sterling Morrison, Robert Quine, Mike Rathke, Fernando Saunders, Václav Havel, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, Delmore Schwartz, Anne Waldman, Doc Pomus, Hal Willner, and Laurie, plus some greetings cards by Moe (Maureen Tucker) to Lou, whom she affectionally calls Honey Bun.
- 6/10/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
To hear the first few seconds of the video above may catch you by surprise: It’s Lou Reed announcing the title of a song while declaring he wrote the words and music. Only it’s a song we know very well — “I’m Waiting for the Man” — and it’s from 1965.
The earliest known recording of the New York classic pre-dates the Velvet Underground, with whom Reed would release it two years later on The Velvet Underground & Nico. The demo is off Words & Music, May 1965, the first installment...
The earliest known recording of the New York classic pre-dates the Velvet Underground, with whom Reed would release it two years later on The Velvet Underground & Nico. The demo is off Words & Music, May 1965, the first installment...
- 6/6/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Lou Reed’s 1989 album New York will be given its first remastering in a massive deluxe edition by Rhino, out September 25th.
New York: Deluxe Edition includes three CDs, a two-lp set and a DVD, encased in a hardcover book with liner notes by David Fricke and essays by archivist Don Fleming. It was produced by Laurie Anderson, Fleming, Bill Ingot, Jason Stern and late producer Hal Willner.
The deluxe set consists of 26 unreleased recordings. The first CD makes up the remastered album, the second CD consists of live versions...
New York: Deluxe Edition includes three CDs, a two-lp set and a DVD, encased in a hardcover book with liner notes by David Fricke and essays by archivist Don Fleming. It was produced by Laurie Anderson, Fleming, Bill Ingot, Jason Stern and late producer Hal Willner.
The deluxe set consists of 26 unreleased recordings. The first CD makes up the remastered album, the second CD consists of live versions...
- 7/29/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Billy Bob and Harry Dean way down in the Ozarks -- you don't get further off the beaten path of regional story with Messrs. Thornton and Stanton fightin' and pickin' down in the swampland. And deep amid the swampy vines and crazed hounds, there's a big story snaking through the hills. Joe (Thornton) has wandered back to his home after 20 years in the pen for assorted things, mainly involving matters with the DEA, and he's looking to set things right. Well, he's not quite sure about that.
A Sundance favorite with its backroad twangs, "Chrystal" is likely to shine among indie-film viewers. Gurgling with the primeval fluids of survival, "Chrystal" is a way-off-the beaten-path yarn. Like the piercing cry of a steel guitar, it cradles its way into areas that folks have always struggled in -- whether in a prophet's robe, con's garb or a suit and tie.
Joe is haunted by what happened the night he landed in jail. He drove his wife, Chrystal (Lisa Blount), and young child off the road while being pursued by the law. The baby died and, in a sense, his wife did, too. For the duration of his absence, she has languished in near catatonia, taking lovers and barely subsisting in a backwoods shack. When Joe returns, he tries to make things right
his wife's malaise deepens his anguish, and he clearly sees the ill fruits of his prior actions.
A grand story of redemption, laced with barbecued wit and slopped with intrigue, "Chrystal" is a high heaping of brilliant storytelling. Filmmaker Ray McKinnon, who also co-stars as a verminlike yahoo, has plucked out a grand tale from the deep, with rich chords of human turmoil. "Chrystal" is, beneath its mucky layers, a wonderfully crafted tale of good vs. evil, told in the dirty mud of man's essence.
Subdued and determined, Thornton is terrific as the determined, justice-dispensing Joe. Blount's performance as his depressed, sliding wife is rife with sadness and decent spirits, while McKinnon is redneck evil incarnate. Stanton's gnarly grace and down-home manner is a welcome garnish.
Under McKinnon's hard-strumming directorial hand, the technical team lays out a teeming tale: Stephen Trask's dirt 'n' hurt score, layered back by music supervisor Don Fleming's sounds, ring out with piles of lowlife wisdom.
Chrystal
Ginny Mule Pictures
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Ray McKinnon
Producers: Lisa Blount, Walton Goggins, Ray McKinnon, Bruce Heller, David Koplan
Executive producer: Peter E. Strauss
Co-producer: Anthony Katagas
Director of photography: Adam Kimmel
Editor: Myron Kerstein
Production designer: Chris Jones
Art director: David Hedge
Costume designer: Kelli Jones
Music supervisor: Don Fleming
Composer: Stephen Trask
Casting: Emily Schweber
Cast:
Joe: Billy Bob Thornton
Chrystal: Lisa Blount
Snake: Ray McKinnon
Kalid: Harry Lennix
Larry: Walton Goggins
Gladys: Grace Zabriskie
Barry: Johnny Galecki
Hog: Colin Fickes
Shorty: Max Kasch
Charlie Cato: James Intveld
Miss Mabel: Kathryn Howell
Pa Da: Harry Dean Stanton
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Billy Bob and Harry Dean way down in the Ozarks -- you don't get further off the beaten path of regional story with Messrs. Thornton and Stanton fightin' and pickin' down in the swampland. And deep amid the swampy vines and crazed hounds, there's a big story snaking through the hills. Joe (Thornton) has wandered back to his home after 20 years in the pen for assorted things, mainly involving matters with the DEA, and he's looking to set things right. Well, he's not quite sure about that.
A Sundance favorite with its backroad twangs, "Chrystal" is likely to shine among indie-film viewers. Gurgling with the primeval fluids of survival, "Chrystal" is a way-off-the beaten-path yarn. Like the piercing cry of a steel guitar, it cradles its way into areas that folks have always struggled in -- whether in a prophet's robe, con's garb or a suit and tie.
Joe is haunted by what happened the night he landed in jail. He drove his wife, Chrystal (Lisa Blount), and young child off the road while being pursued by the law. The baby died and, in a sense, his wife did, too. For the duration of his absence, she has languished in near catatonia, taking lovers and barely subsisting in a backwoods shack. When Joe returns, he tries to make things right
his wife's malaise deepens his anguish, and he clearly sees the ill fruits of his prior actions.
A grand story of redemption, laced with barbecued wit and slopped with intrigue, "Chrystal" is a high heaping of brilliant storytelling. Filmmaker Ray McKinnon, who also co-stars as a verminlike yahoo, has plucked out a grand tale from the deep, with rich chords of human turmoil. "Chrystal" is, beneath its mucky layers, a wonderfully crafted tale of good vs. evil, told in the dirty mud of man's essence.
Subdued and determined, Thornton is terrific as the determined, justice-dispensing Joe. Blount's performance as his depressed, sliding wife is rife with sadness and decent spirits, while McKinnon is redneck evil incarnate. Stanton's gnarly grace and down-home manner is a welcome garnish.
Under McKinnon's hard-strumming directorial hand, the technical team lays out a teeming tale: Stephen Trask's dirt 'n' hurt score, layered back by music supervisor Don Fleming's sounds, ring out with piles of lowlife wisdom.
Chrystal
Ginny Mule Pictures
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Ray McKinnon
Producers: Lisa Blount, Walton Goggins, Ray McKinnon, Bruce Heller, David Koplan
Executive producer: Peter E. Strauss
Co-producer: Anthony Katagas
Director of photography: Adam Kimmel
Editor: Myron Kerstein
Production designer: Chris Jones
Art director: David Hedge
Costume designer: Kelli Jones
Music supervisor: Don Fleming
Composer: Stephen Trask
Casting: Emily Schweber
Cast:
Joe: Billy Bob Thornton
Chrystal: Lisa Blount
Snake: Ray McKinnon
Kalid: Harry Lennix
Larry: Walton Goggins
Gladys: Grace Zabriskie
Barry: Johnny Galecki
Hog: Colin Fickes
Shorty: Max Kasch
Charlie Cato: James Intveld
Miss Mabel: Kathryn Howell
Pa Da: Harry Dean Stanton
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Billy Bob and Harry Dean way down in the Ozarks -- you don't get further off the beaten path of regional story with Messrs. Thornton and Stanton fightin' and pickin' down in the swampland. And deep amid the swampy vines and crazed hounds, there's a big story snaking through the hills. Joe (Thornton) has wandered back to his home after 20 years in the pen for assorted things, mainly involving matters with the DEA, and he's looking to set things right. Well, he's not quite sure about that.
A Sundance favorite with its backroad twangs, "Chrystal" is likely to shine among indie-film viewers. Gurgling with the primeval fluids of survival, "Chrystal" is a way-off-the beaten-path yarn. Like the piercing cry of a steel guitar, it cradles its way into areas that folks have always struggled in -- whether in a prophet's robe, con's garb or a suit and tie.
Joe is haunted by what happened the night he landed in jail. He drove his wife, Chrystal (Lisa Blount), and young child off the road while being pursued by the law. The baby died and, in a sense, his wife did, too. For the duration of his absence, she has languished in near catatonia, taking lovers and barely subsisting in a backwoods shack. When Joe returns, he tries to make things right
his wife's malaise deepens his anguish, and he clearly sees the ill fruits of his prior actions.
A grand story of redemption, laced with barbecued wit and slopped with intrigue, "Chrystal" is a high heaping of brilliant storytelling. Filmmaker Ray McKinnon, who also co-stars as a verminlike yahoo, has plucked out a grand tale from the deep, with rich chords of human turmoil. "Chrystal" is, beneath its mucky layers, a wonderfully crafted tale of good vs. evil, told in the dirty mud of man's essence.
Subdued and determined, Thornton is terrific as the determined, justice-dispensing Joe. Blount's performance as his depressed, sliding wife is rife with sadness and decent spirits, while McKinnon is redneck evil incarnate. Stanton's gnarly grace and down-home manner is a welcome garnish.
Under McKinnon's hard-strumming directorial hand, the technical team lays out a teeming tale: Stephen Trask's dirt 'n' hurt score, layered back by music supervisor Don Fleming's sounds, ring out with piles of lowlife wisdom.
Chrystal
Ginny Mule Pictures
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Ray McKinnon
Producers: Lisa Blount, Walton Goggins, Ray McKinnon, Bruce Heller, David Koplan
Executive producer: Peter E. Strauss
Co-producer: Anthony Katagas
Director of photography: Adam Kimmel
Editor: Myron Kerstein
Production designer: Chris Jones
Art director: David Hedge
Costume designer: Kelli Jones
Music supervisor: Don Fleming
Composer: Stephen Trask
Casting: Emily Schweber
Cast:
Joe: Billy Bob Thornton
Chrystal: Lisa Blount
Snake: Ray McKinnon
Kalid: Harry Lennix
Larry: Walton Goggins
Gladys: Grace Zabriskie
Barry: Johnny Galecki
Hog: Colin Fickes
Shorty: Max Kasch
Charlie Cato: James Intveld
Miss Mabel: Kathryn Howell
Pa Da: Harry Dean Stanton
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Billy Bob and Harry Dean way down in the Ozarks -- you don't get further off the beaten path of regional story with Messrs. Thornton and Stanton fightin' and pickin' down in the swampland. And deep amid the swampy vines and crazed hounds, there's a big story snaking through the hills. Joe (Thornton) has wandered back to his home after 20 years in the pen for assorted things, mainly involving matters with the DEA, and he's looking to set things right. Well, he's not quite sure about that.
A Sundance favorite with its backroad twangs, "Chrystal" is likely to shine among indie-film viewers. Gurgling with the primeval fluids of survival, "Chrystal" is a way-off-the beaten-path yarn. Like the piercing cry of a steel guitar, it cradles its way into areas that folks have always struggled in -- whether in a prophet's robe, con's garb or a suit and tie.
Joe is haunted by what happened the night he landed in jail. He drove his wife, Chrystal (Lisa Blount), and young child off the road while being pursued by the law. The baby died and, in a sense, his wife did, too. For the duration of his absence, she has languished in near catatonia, taking lovers and barely subsisting in a backwoods shack. When Joe returns, he tries to make things right
his wife's malaise deepens his anguish, and he clearly sees the ill fruits of his prior actions.
A grand story of redemption, laced with barbecued wit and slopped with intrigue, "Chrystal" is a high heaping of brilliant storytelling. Filmmaker Ray McKinnon, who also co-stars as a verminlike yahoo, has plucked out a grand tale from the deep, with rich chords of human turmoil. "Chrystal" is, beneath its mucky layers, a wonderfully crafted tale of good vs. evil, told in the dirty mud of man's essence.
Subdued and determined, Thornton is terrific as the determined, justice-dispensing Joe. Blount's performance as his depressed, sliding wife is rife with sadness and decent spirits, while McKinnon is redneck evil incarnate. Stanton's gnarly grace and down-home manner is a welcome garnish.
Under McKinnon's hard-strumming directorial hand, the technical team lays out a teeming tale: Stephen Trask's dirt 'n' hurt score, layered back by music supervisor Don Fleming's sounds, ring out with piles of lowlife wisdom.
Chrystal
Ginny Mule Pictures
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Ray McKinnon
Producers: Lisa Blount, Walton Goggins, Ray McKinnon, Bruce Heller, David Koplan
Executive producer: Peter E. Strauss
Co-producer: Anthony Katagas
Director of photography: Adam Kimmel
Editor: Myron Kerstein
Production designer: Chris Jones
Art director: David Hedge
Costume designer: Kelli Jones
Music supervisor: Don Fleming
Composer: Stephen Trask
Casting: Emily Schweber
Cast:
Joe: Billy Bob Thornton
Chrystal: Lisa Blount
Snake: Ray McKinnon
Kalid: Harry Lennix
Larry: Walton Goggins
Gladys: Grace Zabriskie
Barry: Johnny Galecki
Hog: Colin Fickes
Shorty: Max Kasch
Charlie Cato: James Intveld
Miss Mabel: Kathryn Howell
Pa Da: Harry Dean Stanton
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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