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Raindance Film Festival · 2009

Raindance Film Festival 2009

Raindance Symphony Orchestra

Music and film strand.

Programme

11 films · 1 review

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All The Years Of Trying

Music documentary about cult ‘punk poet’ Patrik Fitzgerald.

(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Dom Shaw; Stars: Garry Bushell, Patrik Fitzgerald, Everett True, Boff Whalley, Benjamin Zephaniah)

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

A behind-the-scenes look at the gypsy punk band.

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Margarita Jimeno; Stars: Gogol Bordello, Manu Chao, Susan Donaldson, Eliot Ferguson, Thomas Gobena, Eugene Hutz, Ori Kaplan, Yuri Lemeshev, Katheryn Mcgaffigan, Rea Mochiach, Pamela Racine, Piroska Racz, Sergei Ryabtsev, DJ Scratchy, Elizabeth Sun)

The Hand Of Fatima

A double portrait of New York Times music critic Robert Palmer and his favourite band the Master Musicians of Jajouka.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Augusta Palmer; Stars: Lee Ranaldo, John Giorno, Bill Laswell, Bachir Attar, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Anthony DeCurtis) , Official site

I Need That Record

Examining the plight of independent record stores.

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Brendan Toller; Stars: Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Noam Chomsky, Chris Frantz, Bob Gruen, Patterson Hood, Lenny Kaye, Ian MacKaye, Legs McNeil, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt) , Official site

Llik your idols

Portrait of filmmakers, artists and musicians in downtown NYC in the 1980s - the cinema of transgression.

(Director: Angelique Bosio) , Official site

Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time

A journey through three decades with the musician.

(Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2009; Stars: Steven Duffy)

The Mighty Boosh Tour Doc (working title)

The comedy outfit on tour.

(Director: Oly Ralfe)

The Narcotics Farm

Former inmates at America’s first jail for drug addicts reveal an untold story of jazz, human drug testing and secret CIA research.

(Year: 2008; Director: JP Olsen and Luke Walden)

Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains

Concert film.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2009; Director: John Edginton; Stars: Robyn Hitchcock)

They Call It Acid

Story of the Acid House culture.

(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Gordon Mason)

Until The Light Takes Us

Review preview for Until The Light Takes Us

The film's scope is quite narrow but what it does, it does well.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A look at the history and aesthetic of Black Metal.

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell; Stars: Varg Vikernes, Fenriz, Harmony Korine, Hellhammer)

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