Sie FilmCenter is screening the new documentary, which uses rare concert footage to resurrect the music of Nick Cave's first band, the Birthday Party.
. Starting off as private school kids covering punk music, the band turned into a shambolic monster that conquered the clubs of Melbourne, then took on the world.from Tuesday, October 10, through Sunday, October 15, leans heavily on rarely-seen concert footage, giving audiences floor seats to the short-lived experimental rock group's raucous spectacle.
Cave, undoubtedly the most famous of the bunch, first made a big impression on American film audiences with his gloomy but toe-tapping"album was definitely my first intro to the imposing figure that was Nick Cave," he says,"or at least the song that made me look up the menacing voice." In, Caves's pipes definitely get a full workout, but even more exciting for fans is the chance to get a first-hand look at the crucial early years of their development.
At its heart, the film is a fascinating attempt to reconstruct a few years in the lives of these precocious, deconstructive young artists early in their careers. For the most part, it lets the band members' narration, gathered from decades worth of interviews, melt over audiences in an intimate, dream-like flow.
Viewers are submerged in the mystique of the band and frontman Cave, who has been quietly gracing the screen with his offbeat presence since those early Birthday Party days. In addition to his performances in such arthouse classics as The Proposition, documenting her massive world tour that stretched from Stockholm to Kansas City, which will open on December 1. He's also currently stocking up on cinematic candy for spooky season.will be haunting the Sie beginning Friday the 13th...
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