On Screen
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BY Jason Anderson March 05, 2008 16:03
Not content to dominate music clubs for the next several nights, Canadian Music Week finds a berth at the Royal Cinema as the fest introduces a new film component. Music for the Screen is a CMW mini-fest of music docs and one special performance. On Thursday (March 6) at 6:30pm, Gary Lucas — former member of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band and collaborator with the likes of Jeff Buckley, Lou Reed and John Zorn — plays a live score for a specially tinted print of the 1920 German Expressionist classic The Golem. Commissioned in 1989, Lucas has since performed the work at Lincoln Center, the Royal Albert Hall and the Venice Biennale — he first brought it to town in 1996 for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
On Friday (March 7) at 7pm, Music for the Screen presents the world premiere of Songs from the Soul, the second in a series that gives screen time to famous players of the blues (Taj Mahal and Roman Carter, to name but two) and many lesser-known geezers who still do a mean hambone. Carter is on hand for a Q&A with producer Brett O’Brien before playing the late Jeff Healey’s Roadhouse later that night.
Another visiting musician makes time to share when Kyle Gass attends the Canadian premiere of D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary on Saturday (March 8) at 7pm. Originally intended to capture Tenacious D’s victory lap as they mount their biggest tour and court Hollywood fame, Jeremy Konner’s doc instead depicts the sometimes ugly fallout when their first film flops and the crestfallen pair find themselves — in the words of Jack Black — “fighting the wave of stinkitude in our movie’s wake.” After reliving that downer, Gass will be eager to revel in the majesty of rock when his side project Trainwreck play the Reverb.
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