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11/24/2010 @ 8:00pm / SERIES: SILENT WEDNESDAYS
Arsenal
(W/ New Live Score By Brian LeBarton!)
Multi-instrumentalist and electronic music whiz Brian LeBarton, who for years has been the close collaborative partner of one Beck Hansen, and who recently co-composed/recorded the music of Sex Bob-omb (the fake band in Scott Pligrim Vs. The World) comes to the Cinefamily to bring his unique aural vision to classic films from the silent era! Russian silent cinema often channeled the struggles of a perpetually put-upon people through a staggering avant-garde filter, in order to sneak its message past the Party — and Alexander Dovzhenko’s Arsenal stands tall alongside Eisenstein’s Battleship Potempkin and Pudovkin’s Motheras one of the great metaphorical pieces of its era. The first film in Dovzhenko’s “Ukraine Trilogy”,Arsenal charts the incredible upheaval of Russian society as the tumult of WWI gave way to the Russian Revolution in the 1910s, all seen through the eyes of a lowly Ukranian soldier who participates in barricading himself and his fellow troops in a munitions plant, as Kiev falls around him into Bolshevik hands. One can see how Dovzhenko’s time spent in Berlin throughout the ‘20s influenced him greatly, as Arsenal’s German Expressionism-influenced visuals add layers upon layers of beautifully surreal touches to one of the great anti-war films.
Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1929, digital presentation, 70 min.
Tickets – $12/free for members
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Charlotte Gainsbourg European tour:
For details and purchase info:
go HERE. C u out der.
04-11 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre
04-12 Victoria, British Columbia – Alix Goolden Hall
04-14 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Cafe
04-15 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
04-17 San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts
04-18 Indio, CA – Coachella
04-21 Chicago, IL – Park West
04-23 Montreal, Quebec – Olympia
04-24 Montreal, Quebec – Olympia
04-25 New York, NY – Webster Hall
Presale begins Saturday: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Charlotte-Gainsbourg
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February 20th, 2010 7:30pm
I’ll be doing a 6 minute and 20 second musical presentation as accompaniement to recent images taken in Haiti along with several other amazing artists and humans all gathering for the cause Architecture For Humanity as part of a Global event to donate money for building homes in Haiti. The event is FREE on Saturday, Feb 20th at 7:30pm in Downtown Los Angeles atSCI-Arc. Full press release.
More about what PechaKucha is and the plan for reconstruction:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/pechakucha-for-haiti
SCI-Arc, Keck Lecture Hall
960 E. 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA
(parking lot at 350 Merrick St.)
FREE. ($20 suggested donation) 7:30 pm. All welcome. Music provided by Dublab’s Carlos Ninos
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2010 Vancouver Olympics w/Feist
Tues, Feb 16th, 2010 – Whistler Medals Plaza
Wed, Feb 17th, 2010 – The Orpheum
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January 2nd, 2010, 8pm
Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Public Radio present “The Wind”, with a live score by Brian LeBarton on January 2 in Marfa, TX.
“The Wind” Film Score Press Release – kindly redistribute at will.
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October 30th and 31st, 2009
A live, improvised score for “The Golem” by Brian LeBarton and co.
“Celebrate Halloween with one of the earliest and surely creepiest horror films in cinema history, accompanied with live music by tricked-out ghouls under the direction of Brian LeBarton, best known as Beck’s prodigious music director. The 1920 touchstone of Expressionism tells the Eastern European Jewish legend of the Golem—an oversize clay statue brought to life by a Prague rabbi to do muscle work and help protect the city’s Jews. It doesn’t take long, though, before the plan goes horribly wrong… With director Paul Wegener as the Golem, cinematography by Karl Freund (Metropolis) and amazing sets by architect Hans Poelzig. LeBarton’s costumed band, meanwhile, features analog keyboards, electronic treatments, cello, and special guest Carla Azar on drums and percussion.”
For more information and tickets visit: http://www.redcat.org/event/golem
