1) Alien Band - This is a fairly small budget Korean movie (so small in fact I couldn't find a movie poster on the internet!) - it's the story of a group of international students at a Korean university (from Japan, Malaysia and Paraguay) who have lost their club room at their university. In order to get the club room back they decide to enter a battle of the bands contest along with a reluctant French/Korean guy named Duk-Su.
This movie is VERY Korean - I think that if I had watched this film at home in New Zealand with no knowledge of Korea I would be very confused as to what was happening at times.
But that said it is a fun movie and it does touch on some difficult issues, like racism in Korea.
I liked it, but I can't say that everybody would.
2) One Man Beatles - This documentary was about Emitt Rhodes, a lost pop star from the 1960's/1970's. He was hugely popular during this time - but has since totally faded into obscurity. This movie is based around a guy who finds an Emitt Rhodes Album and falls in love with it - he seeks down all of Emitt's other album's but there's not a lot of work. He wants to find out what happens the Emitt desperately and travels to the USA to find him.
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3) Stones in Exile - This movie is all about the making of the Rolling Stones Album - "Exile on Main St". During this time the Stones left England (due to tax woes) and lived in the south of France to record their album. I'm not a huge fan of the Rolling Stones but I thought this movie was good insight to the band and the time in general.
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The film was made by Julian Temple, who made one of my favourite music films of all time - The Filth and the Fury.
The film is the story of the band, their backgrounds, where they came from and their huge success (again I can't believe I don't know this band!) and the fallout from that success.
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We also watched a couple of short documentaries - about the making of "Dark Side of the moon" and "The Doors". I can't really count these as movies though as they were both really short.
So with one festival - I have now increased my movie viewing quota to 56! I still need to watch a lot more movies.
2 comments:
I love The Doors! :D xoxo
The doors documentary was really great^^
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