Depeche Mode 101 Fri, Aug 11 | 7:30pm | DGT
Concert film legend D. A. Pennebaker joins forces with directors Chris Hegedus and David Dawkins to film English industrial pop royalty Depeche Mode, here in their imperial four-piece formation, during their grueling nine-month “Music for the Masses” American tour. The filmmakers also track a group of fans as they cross the country on the band’s trail. Mixing intimate backstage moments with the group and thundering live performances, 101 climaxes with the group’s triumphant set at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl on June 18, 1988. DIRECTED BY: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. WITH: Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, Alan Wilder. 1989. 120 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 4K DCP.
Songs for Drella with Home of the Brave Sat, Aug 12 | 7:30pm | DGT
Songs for Drella Former Velvet Underground bandmates Lou Reed and John Cale reunited in 1987 after years of estrangement at the funeral of Andy Warhol, a complicated figure in both men’s careers. Cale and Reed’s reconciliation led to Songs for Drella , an hour-long song cycle of droll musical memories, some written as if recalled by Warhol himself. Filmmaker Ed Lachman (cinematographer, Carol ) sets the duo apart on a bare stage in front of a screen flashing with pop art graphics in this deceptively simple piece recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and allows the cinematic, narrative lyrics to speak for themselves. DIRECTED BY: Ed Lachman. WITH: Lou Reed, John Cale. 1990. 57 min. UK. Color. English. DCP. Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson More performance art than conventional concert film, Home of the Brave was conceived and directed by composer, musician, and artist Laurie Anderson as a delightful, visceral expression of her fascinations with the possibilities created when intertwining language and music with multimedia technologies and a childlike sense of play. Challenging traditional notions of what constitutes pop and upending assumptions of approachability, Anderson’s endless creativity overflows into 90 minutes of delightful costume changes, choreographed movements that incorporate herself and her musicians, dynamic projected animations, and bizarre vocal transformations for a one-of-a-kind window into the singular worldview of one of art pop’s greatest minds. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Laurie Anderson. WITH: Laurie Anderson, Joy Askew, Andrian Belew, William S. Burroughs. 1986. 90 min. USA/Canada. Color. English, Spanish, Japanese. DCP.
THE CURE IN ORANGE (1987)
The Cure in Orange Sat, Aug 5 | 7:30pm | DGT
Never released digitally, the first concert film by goth- fathers The Cure brings the band’s classic-era quintet to the big screen. A shockingly short-haired Robert Smith leads the band over two August nights at the bucolic, Roman-era Théâtre antique d’Orange in France’s Provence region, not far from where the group would go on to record their seminal double-album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me . The set boasts a slashing “One Hundred Years” and crowd chant-along “Play For Today” in addition to high-powered cuts from their latest LP The Head on the Door . Directed by longtime visual collaborator and music video director Tim Pope, The Cure in Orange captures five imaginary boys on the edge of enormity. DIRECTED BY: Tim Pope. WITH: Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson. 1987. 94 min. UK. Color. English. 35mm.
We Sold Our Souls for Rock ’n Roll Fri, Aug 18 | 7:30pm | DGT
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) auteur Penelope Spheeris returns to the world of loud guitars and louder personalities with this under-screened late ’90s gem. Following 1999’s edition of Ozzfest, the nomadic metal festival founded and headlined by singer-heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, Spheeris captures blistering, sweat- drenched sets from future multi-platinum megastars System of a Down, Korn, and Deftones at their nu-metal infancy alongside heavy metal royalty Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and Slayer. Warning: This film features depictions of self-harm and bloodshed. DIRECTED BY: Penelope Spheeris. WITH: Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Rob Zombie. 2001. 90 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
DEPECHE MODE 101 (1989)
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