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Soul Jazz Records presents Sound + Image: Music in Film
A fantastic clash of sensibilities – Nouvelle Vague experimentation meets music documentary in a 1968 revolutionary style! What more could you ask for? It’s hard not to separate this film into two parts – half-Godardian philosophy and hip pretension and half-Rolling Stones rockumentary – but this not be correct as Jean-Luc Godard is the man behind both.
Whilst the ‘Godardian’ sequences are preoccupied with discussing African-American Black Power and its relationship with Paris, 1968 – unsurprising given the student and worker riots that were shortly to occur. In fact it is, surprisingly, the more straightforward study of the Stones in the studio creating the song Sympathy for the Devil that is revelatory as before our eyes we watch a song go from a somewhat dreary blues based riff to somehow evolve into a stunning piece of music – creativity in action!
The film is a fascinating study of the intellectual aesthetic that Godard developed toward the end of the decade.
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Soul Jazz Records curates this season of music-related films – from Motown and Civil Rights Jazz to Reggae, Brazilian Bossa Nova, Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking Rolling Stones documentary and more. All of these films rely heavily on the relationship between music, film, politics and society. More importantly - they're all wicked!
Soul Jazz Records' founder Stuart Baker will introduce each of the films and Soul Jazz Records’ Soundsystem DJ’s in the bar before and after each screening!
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Complete list of this Soul Jazz Records season of film screenings at Regent Street Cinema, London Wednesdays throughout August 2015 here
The new Regent Street Cinema is 2 minutes from Oxford Circus tube. See details here