Films on Music
Vikalp Bengaluru (Films for Freedom) presents a weekend of films on music
Dec 14, 15 and 16 at 6.30 pm
Nani Cinematheque, Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road, Bangalore 560052
For directions, please click the link on the right.
Entrance for members only. Please bring your membership cards.
If you are not a member, please come to the venue half an hour before the screening and register.
SCHEDULE:
Fri, Dec 14, 6.30 pm
THE MILES DAVIS STORY
Mike Dibb, 125 minutes
Sat, Dec 15, 6.30 pm
THE LAST WALTZ
Martin Scorsese, 117 minutes
Sun, Dec 16, 6.30 pm
REBEL MUSIC
Jeremy Marr, 84 minutes
SYNOPSES:
THE MILES DAVIS STORY
Duration: 125 minutes
Director: Mike Dibb
Ten years after his death in 1991, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis remains the best-known and most influential jazz musician of the last 50 years. The film explore the music and the man behind the public image, from Miles’ middle class upbringing in racially segregated East St. Louis to the last years when he traveled the world like a rock star. His career intersected with every major development in jazz since the 1940s, and this film covers each and every key event: Miles teaming up with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie when he was a 19 year old student of the Julliard school of Music: his influential Birth of the school recordings: the making of Bitches Brew and the groundbreaking development of fusion and funk. The film interweaves rare interviews with Miles himself with the insights and memories of his family, friends and many of the great musicians who played with him during his long career.
THE LAST WALTZ
Duration: 117 minutes
Director: Martin Scorsese
It started as a concert. It became a celebration. Join an unparalleled line of rock superstars as they celebrate the historic 1976 farewell performance of the Band – Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson. The film is not only “ an eloquent toast to the glories of American rock n’ roll” (Los Angeles Times)…its one of the most important cultural events of the last 2 decades” (Rolling Stones).
REBEL MUSIC (The Bob Marley Story)
Duration: 84 minutes
Director: Jeremy Marr
Rebel Music tells the fascinating and heart wrenching story of legendary reggae superstar, Bob Marley, his extraordinary life and revolutionary music. Stirred by global politics and domestic strife, he became spokesman for the people of Jamaica using his brilliant and evocative music as a powerful way to deliver a universal music of peace and love. At the height of his popularity, and after a lifetime of overcoming political adversity, he was struck down by cancer, dying at the age of 36.