Sundance 2015 YouTube Party
The YouTube Party at Sundance 2015:
Highlights include, DJ, great hors d’oeuvres, photo booth.
music
Frank – Quick Review – Sundance 2014
“Frank“, a film about a band whose leader, Michael Fassbender, wears a giant fake head. Domhnall Gleeson is a hack keyboard player who gets a lucky break when the band’s old keyboard player goes crazy and tries to drown himself.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is excellent as the band’s Theramin player and cause of a lot of their troubles. A strange, but fun film which examines mental illness, creativity and suffering. Very funny and sweet in spots, but overall a bit to odd.
You can watch the trailer here.
17 Sundance 2014 Feature Films About Music
There are tons of films at Sundance this year about music. The 17 films are:
“Lambert & Stamp” – a documentary about the early managers of The Who
“Finding Fela” a documentary about the Nigerian afrobeat legend
“God Help The Girl” by Stuart Murdoch of the band Belle and Sebastian
“20000 Days on Earth” a documentary about Nick Cave
“Low Down” a story about the daughter of a jazz musician
“Rudderless” about the father who finds the demo tapes of his recently deceased son and starts a band to play his songs
“Whiplash” about a jazz drummer with the always excellent J.K. Simmons
“Song One” starring Anne Hathaway researching her musician brother in Brooklyn
“Alive Inside” a documentary about music therapy for Alzheimer’s patients
“Living Stars” about people who dance to music in front of their mirrors in Argentina.
“Frank” about a musician (played by Michael Fassbender) who wears a large fake head
“Girl from Nagasaki” a reworking of the opera Madame Butterfly
“My Prairie Home” about transgender musician Rae Spoon.
“Hits” about a teenager obsessed with “The Voice”
“Under the Electric Sky” a documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival”
“Memphis” about a talented singer in the famed city
“Only Lovers Left Alive” the Jim Jarmusch film about an underground musician.
