Showing posts with label Concert Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concert Movie. Show all posts

25 November 2009

Win A Copy Of New Metallica Live DVD

from NME



Metallica are set to release their first ever French concert live DVD 'Francais Pour Une Nuit' (translation: French For One Night) on November 23 - and we've got one limited edition box set to give away, full of awesome goodies.

The box includes:
Live DVD (2hrs) + band interviews (37min)
Exclusive t-shirt (one size fits all)
5 deluxe prints
Official Metallica lanyard
16 page full colour booklet
A laminated show pass
CD album of Death Magnetic

Login now and answer the ridiculously easy question. NME Terms. This competition closes on December 1.

Also available to pre-order here.

When you enter this competition, your email address will be added to the newsletter. However, you will be given the opportunity to unsubscribe from the email newsletter via the unsubscribe message in the email.

24 November 2009

Movie: Gogol Bordello Non Stop

NY Times



“It is all sexes, all ages, all nationalities,” announces Eugene Hütz, the charismatic Ukrainian-born founder and frontman of the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, in Margarita Jimeno’s choppy, high-energy documentary of the band’s rise from a cult phenomenon to international acclaim. The scenes of the nine-member band, which includes two dancers, in theatrical attire cavorting with the audience in a Lower Manhattan club are beyond joyous. Anthems like “Immigrant Punk,” powered by a frantic pogo beat strung with wild, squealing accordion and violin that suggest demonically fueled klezmer music, generate an ecstatic communal anarchy.

Mr. Hütz, a skinny, baggy-eyed live wire with an earring and a waxed handlebar mustache who is partly of Roma descent and who performs shirtless, could be described as the Iggy Pop of an Eastern European sound he says was influenced by Bartok. Having appeared in two films — “Everything Is Illuminated,” with Elijah Wood, and the Madonna-directed “Filth and Wisdom” — he has become a borderline movie star as well as a postpunk guru.

In “Gogol Bordello Non-Stop” he emerges as a passionate, articulate philosopher of punk’s democratic participatory aesthetic who espouses the rejection of social hierarchies in concerts that are raucous, bacchanalian performance-art carnivals.

In the movie’s weaker segments several troupe members, who range in age roughly from 25 to 50, tell their stories. By far the most compelling is Mr. Hütz’s tale of fleeing Kiev on an odyssey that took him through Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland, landing in Vermont in 1993 through a relocation program.

Near the end of the film he decries how media “brainwashing” and the cultivation of a “celebrity lifestyle” are the almost-too-tempting-to-resist enemies of artistic free expression. So far, it seems, he has held the line.

Directed and edited by Margarita Jimeno; director of photography, Ms. Jimeno; produced by Ms. Jimeno and Darya Zhuk; released by Lorber Films. Running time: 1 hour 27 minutes.