jeudi 19 mai 2011

The Films we represent

Cannes Market 2011 presentation
Anton Chekhov's The Duel (90 minutes)

Anton Chekhov's The Duel
by Dover Kosashvili (late marriage, Infiltration)
produced by Donald Rosenfeld (Remains of The Day, Howards End, 40 Sades of Blue, The Tree of Life...)


ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL is a sumptuous literary adaptation from the director of LATE MARRIAGE (Cannes, 2001) and the Academy Award®-nominated producer of HOWARDS END and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. Based on a short story by the great Russian playwright, THE DUEL deals with a passion that has turned to dust in the hot sun, and the animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life.

“THE MOST SUCCESSFUL LITERARY ADAPTATION I’VE SEEN SINCE LADY CHATTERLEY.”
–J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

“VERY SATISFYING and tonally precise... moments of comedy, dark sentiments, invocations of Tolstoy and a generous attitude toward human frailties.”
–Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“MASTERFUL!”
–Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Website www.duelthefilm.com
 
Ensemble Together by Mohamed Fekrane (12 minutes)
winner of Banlieuz'Art  Screening in Cannes Salle Bazin may 20th, 2.00 pm
Ensemble Directed by Mohamed Fékrane (2010) 12 minutes tell the same story from a different perspective, and with a shorter focus of the Imam's life played by Habib Kadi.
It will be shown as one of the 8 co-winners of Banlieuz'Art competition (sponsored by BNP and Région Ile de France) Salle Bazin May 20th at 2.00 followed by a press conference with the 8 jury members (each supporting their protégé film. Jean-Rachid producer of Grand Corps Malade, an actor, singer, stand up comedian: a man with many talents and tastes.
Paris, 1942, Isaac (inspired by Salim Halali) a Jewish child, escapes the Nazis, he finds refuge in the Mosquée of Paris where Ahmed, the founder and rector of the The Grande Mosquée de Paris, takes him under his protection, teaches him Coran and arab, fakes his certificate....
Ahmed then started to save as many children as possible from certain death. Before he was arrested...
A poignant story based on true events. though it is still impossible to evaluate the number of lives saved through these extraordinary brave acts, the estimates range between 600 and 1500.
Cast: Habib Kadi, Clémence Thioly, Arsene Mosca, DjamelBourriahi, Tony Baillargeat, Styéphane Mercier, Jacques Guillet, Leo Ouadfel, Chistophe Kourdouly and Erwan, the first Emotion Film Factory production (the company was set up by Christophe Kourdouly and Bruno Chatelin)
Crew:Director of photography : Victor Dupuis, Sound: Olivier Roux, Deco: Mark-R, Editing: Wadi Laadam, Color: Lamine Diakite
Produced by Christophe Kourdouly and Bruno Chatelin


Website http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/mohamed_fekrane






The films we represent


GLAMROCK CITY (ART ET DÉCÈS) by Christophe KAY KOURDOULY - Completed 


VISIONARIES (VISIONARIES: JONAS MEKAS AND THE (MOSTLY) AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA) by Chuck WORKMAN - Completed        


Andy Warhol a documentary film by Ric Burns produced by Donald Rosenfeld     (240 minutes 4x52 minnutes)                                     
 ANTON TCHEKHOV'S THE DUEL by Dover KOSASHVILI - Completed  
 ENSEMBLE (ENSEMBLE -TOGETHER) by Mohamed FEKRANE - Completed  
 GLENN THE FLYING ROBOT by Marc GOLDSTEIN - Completed  SERENGETI by Rheinard RADKE - Completed  THE FOREST PART 2 (THE FIGHT FOR LIGHT) by Jan HAFT - Completed  WILD RUSSIA (WILDES RUSSLAND) by Jörn RÖVER - Completed 


Gary Lucas performances to film
We represent Gary in his music to classic film guitar solo performances.
A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer, an international recording artist with over 20 acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move in 2011.
He was recently cited as one of the “100 Greatest Living Guitarists” in Classic Rock magazine (UK).
Festival live guitar solo performances in film festivals over such films as Spanish Dracula
He rocked the 48th New York Film Festival accompanying the legendary 1931 Spanish-language “Dracula” with his original live solo guitar following rave reviews debuting the project at the 31st Havana Film Festival in Dec. 2009 and at, appropriately enough, the Transylvania International Film Festival in May 2010. He received a standing ovation for his Spanish "Dracula" score at the Spanish premiere at the 7th Sevilla Film Festival in Nov. 2010 and followed that with a triumphant UK premiere of the work at Queen Elizabeth Hall closing the London Jazz Festival, which netted Gary a 4 star review in The Guardian.

Live solo guitar performances accompanyng films during film festivals



Gary Lucas Plays:

Spanish "Dracula"--1931, d. George Melford


"Esta Noite Encarnerei no Teu Cadaver (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse)"--1967, d. Jose Mojica Marins


"The Golem"--1920. d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese


"Sounds of the Surreal" --1923 and 1912, d. Fernand Leger, Rene Clair, and Ladislaw Starewicz


"Monsters from the Id" - various clips from classic horror and sci fi films


"The Unholy Three"--1925, d. Tod Browning

dimanche 15 mai 2011

Gary Lucas

We represent Gary Lucas and plan some of his performances in Film Festival events where he gives a guitar solo performance on stage, in front of a screening of such classic films as 
Spanish "Dracula"--1931, d. George Melfordhttp://garylucas.com/www/dracula

"Esta Noite Encarnerei no Teu Cadaver (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse)"--1967, d. Jose Mojica Marins
http://garylucas.com/www/cadaver

"The Golem"--1920. d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
http://garylucas.com/www/golem

"Sounds of the Surreal" --1923 and 1912, d. Fernand Leger, Rene Clair, and Ladislaw Starewicz
http://garylucas.com/www/surr

"Monsters from the Id" - various clips from classic horror and sci fi films
http://garylucas.com/www/id

"The Unholy Three"--1925, d. Tod Browning
http://garylucas.com/www/unholy
He is currently working on a Bunuel classic 

GARY LUCAS BIO



A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer, an international recording artist with over 20 acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move in 2011. He was recently cited as one of the “100 Greatest Living Guitarists” in Classic Rock magazine (UK).



He rocked the 48th New York Film Festival accompanying the legendary 1931 Spanish-language “Dracula” with his original live solo guitar following rave reviews debuting the project at the 31st Havana Film Festival in Dec. 2009 and at, appropriately enough, the Transylvania International Film Festival in May 2010.

He received a standing ovation for his Spanish "Dracula" score at the Spanish premiere at the 7th Sevilla Film Festival in Nov. 2010 and followed that with a triumphant UK premiere of the work at Queen Elizabeth Hall closing the London Jazz Festival, which netted Gary a 4 star review in The Guardian.

He recently completed a European tour with Indian vocalist Najma Akhtar in support of their recent World Village/Harmonia Mundi collaboration entitled “Rishte”, which climbed to #4 on the World Music Charts Europe.



He recently returned from a second acclaimed appearance in Cuba at the 32nd Havana Film Festival in December 2010 where he debuted his new live score accompanying Jose Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe)'s 1967 Brazilian cult horror classic "Esta Noite Encarnerei no teu Cadaver" (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse).

He is busy preparing for the release of his psychedelic supergroup Gods and Monsters' new studio album "The Ordeal of Civility" May 7th 2011 on Knitting Factory Records, produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) and distributed by Sony/Red, and will take the group to the US and Europe for live dates this spring.



He is concurrently taking his Captain Beefheart Symposium on the road to NYC, Boston, LA and SF to celebrate the visionary genius of his late mentor Don Van Vliet. He's also performing at and organizing tributes to his late friend and collaborator Jeff Buckley in Italy and America.



He just released his first ever coloured vinyl single "Music for the Eden Project" on 5nakefork Records. And he's hard at work on a new live production based on his celebrated 2001 album of 30's Chinese pop music "The Edge of Heaven", to premiere June 10th at the 64th Holland Festival featuring his band and two female vocalists he recently auditioned in Shanghai China, where he also made his Chinese performing debut.



Last year Gary Lucas made well-received performing debuts in China, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Croatia, South Korea, and the Canary Islands in addition to touring extensively in Europe and the US (he has toured in over 40 countries to date).



He recently sold-out the 62nd Holland Festival in Amsterdam 2 nights running with a silent film score he co-composed and performed live for Abel Gance’s 1919 silent anti-war masterpiece “J’Accuse”, and arranged, performed and recorded a new album of Rolling Stones hits with legendary Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham in Bogota Colombia, and rocked festivals in France, Brazil and Spain.



Dubbed “The Thinking Man’s Guitar Hero” by The New Yorker, “The world’s most popular avant-rock guitarist” by The Independent (UK), “Legendary leftfield guitarist” by The Guardian (UK), “Guitarist of 1000 Ideas” by The New York Times, “a true axe God” by Melody Maker, and “One of the five best guitarists in the world” by the national Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny, the British world music magazine fRoots recently described Gary Lucas as “without question, the most innovative and challenging guitarist playing today.” Rolling Stone’s David Fricke wrote: “Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America” in a review of Gary’s avant-rock album with is longtime band Gods and Monsters entitled “Coming Clean”. Gary was also selected by the editors of DownBeat Magazine as one of their “Hot 66 6-Stringers”. And the cognitive scientist, record producer and best-selling author of “This Is Your Brain on Music” described Gary Lucas as “the greatest living electric guitarist”.



Gary Lucas tours the world relentlessly both solo and with several different ensembles, including his longtime band Gods and Monsters, whose ranks once included the late singer Jeff Buckley. Gary co-wrote two of Jeff Buckley’s most famous hits, “Grace” and “Mojo Pin”, which later became the title track and the opening track on Jeff’s double platinum Sony album “Grace”—which MOJO magazine recently named the #1 Modern Classic Rock Album. Gary and Jeff’s early collaborations can also be heard on the Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas album “Songs to No One”, which charted internationally with worldwide sales approaching 100,000.

Other notable Lucas releases include the recently reissued “The Edge of Heaven”, an album of Gary Lucas’ lush arrangements of classic 1930’s Chinese pop songs, which was #1 on the World Music charts and received rave reviews around the world from Rolling Stone to the Hong Kong Music Weekly. Gary’s compilation of the best of his early band and solo work entitled “Operators are Standing By” garnered a 4-star MOJO review: “This album confirms Gary Lucas as THE psychedelic guitarist for the post-modern set.” Most of Gary’s extensive back catalog as well as his current releases were recently licensed for digital distribution by IODA, and are now available on iTunes and other digital portals worldwide.



Gary Lucas leads several different ensembles, including his longtime NYC-based band Gods and Monsters, a super-group psychedelic jam band based around Gary’s guitar playing, singing, and Grammy-nominated songwriting, featuring Billy Ficca (Television) on drums and Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) on bass. They recently played a Live Nation-booked 20th Anniversary Show in NYC, and have a new live DVD and studio album wrapped, produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads). Gary also plays with DJ Cosmo in electronica duo Wild Rumpus, who have released 4 successful 12-inch dance singles to date with an album on the way. Gary Lucas also co-leads Fast ‘N’ Bulbous, who have released 2 albums devoted to the music of avant-rock visionary Captain Beefheart, who first put Gary Lucas on the musical map as a force to be reckoned with.



Described as “a 21st century Cream” by Rolling Stone, Gods and Monsters also includes Jason Candler (Hungry March Band) on alto and tenor sax, and Joe Hendel (Faddy Acids) on trombone and keyboards. With their illustrious pedigrees they comprise an art-rock supergroup and a major cross-section of the rock avant-garde (Beefheart, Buckley, Television, Modern Lovers)—Time Out New York raving “The group is mind-blowing!” and The New Yorker hailing them as “An underground-rock fan’s dream team”.



Gods and Monsters have toured extensively in Europe over the years, most recently at festivals in the Austrian Tirol, in the Netherlands, and in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Russia in the company of former Talking Heads keyboardist and hit record producer Jerry Harrison (Live, OAR), who produced their latest studio album. Harrison joined the band live at South by Southwest in Austin Texas where Gary Lucas was given an unheard of double-length showcase for both his silent film/live music project “Gary Lucas Plays The Golem” and for Gods and Monsters, which garnered significant press attention—and Harrison played with them live in NYC at the CMJ Festival and also joined them at New York’s Knitting Factory for a concert with Czech underground band The Plastic People, where the group was greeted backstage by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and David Byrne. Gods and Monsters recently celebrated their 20th anniversary in June 2009 with an all-star concert at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, produced by Live Nation and featuring guest appearances from Gary’s friends Alan Vega (Suicide), Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion) and Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith).



“Coming Clean”, the most recent Gods and Monsters album was released in 4 different international editions: in Russia under the title “Follow”; in the USA, Canada, and Japan; in the UK and France; and in the Benelux. The reviews were uniformly excellent, with Rolling Stone raving: “Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America…a songwriter of established invention…he plays astounding guitar throughout, but always for the sake of the song.” The album received 4 star reviews in MOJO, Uncut, and Record Collector, and also in France’s Crossroads and Vibrations. One of the standout tracks on “Coming Clean” was Gary’s song “Follow”, an anthem he wrote to comfort the victims of AIDS, which was performed in 2007 at a huge rally in the gay club Crobar in Manhattan attacking the Bush administration's proposed anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment. The song was introduced and sung by Gary’s friend comedienne Sandra Bernhard, who performed with Gary on guitar.



In addition to being lionized by the critics, Gary’s work and playing has received much enthusiastic praise from his musical peers. He contributed a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Ain’t Got You” to “Light of Day”, a Bruce Springsteen tribute album for charity, which prompted the Boss himself to remark: “You’re a phenomenal guitarist—and your version of my song is phenomenal as well!!.” Gary also recently received high compliments from Lou Reed, who praised his “lovely guitar playing” on his collaborations with Jeff Buckley, described Gary’s solo version of his song “European Son” as “Beyond Cool!”, and told him, “I could listen to you play for hours, Gary”.



In addition to Gods and Monsters, Gary co-leads with composer/musician Phillip Johnston a free jazz-oriented all instrumental 7-piece tribute band dedicated to the music of his former mentor Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) featuring some of NYC’s greatest improvisers Fast ‘N Bulbous, The Captain Beefheart Project. Applying a free-wheeling horn and guitar-driven approach to the knotty avant-blues/rock/jazz compositions of Van Vliet, they’ve made triumphant appearances at the Saalfelden Festival in Austria, the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, and the Lisbon Jazz Em Agosto Festival. Their debut album “Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind” received much favorable praise worldwide, was profiled on NPR, and charted on college radio in the US. An extensive European tour last November saw them selling out shows at the London Jazz Festival and at Amsterdam’s BimHuis, as well as concerts in Bern, Vienna, Schwaz, and Llubljana Slovenia. In 2009 the band released their second Cuneiform album “WAXED OOP (An impetuous stream bubbled up)” which received rave reviews internationally.



Gary also played for several years as part of the reunion of Captain Beefheart alumni known as The Magic Band, performing with them at the UK’s famed Glastonbury Festival, London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire, a sold-out night at Royal Festival Hall, and at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in LA where they were introduced by Beefheart/Magic Band fan Matt Groening (The Simpsons), and in Camber Sands UK. They made several extensive UK and European tours, which took them to Amsterdam’s Paradiso, Belgrade Serbia, and to Sweden, where they performed live on Swedish national television. They released a rehearsal CD “Back to the Front”, cited as one of the albums of the year in The Wire, a live double album “21st Century Mirror Men”, and a live DVD/documentary, “Crow’s Milk” with narration by the late John Peel, one of Beefheart’s biggest champions. In fact, the legendary UK underground tastemaking DJ John Peel became one of Gary Lucas’ biggest champions shortly after The Magic Band recorded a live session for him, subsequently spinning several cuts from Gary Lucas’ solo albums on his widely listened-to program on the BBC on 2 separate broadcasts shortly before he died.



Other long running media champions of Gary’s work on UK radio include the well-respected legendary world music maven Charlie Gillett, who invited Gary to perform live on his 20th anniversary show, Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington who have featured Gary’s work on their BBC 3 experimental music programme Late Junction, and club music DJ king Rob Da Bank, who has repeatedly added the avant-dance music of Wild Rumpus, Gary’s DJ project with DJ Cosmo, Wild Rumpus, to his popular BBC radio program.



GARY LUCAS established his reputation as a guitarist’s guitarist with 5 years spent playing with his childhood hero, the visionary avant-garde vocalist/composer/bandleader Captain Beefheart (a/k/a Don Van Vliet).



A graduate of Yale University, where he was a DJ and served as Music Director at WYBC FM, Gary’s childhood dream of joining Beefheart’s band came true when he recorded two Captain Beefheart albums in the early 80’s on Virgin Records, “Doc at the Radar Station” (1980) and “Ice Cream for Crow” (1982), which featured his explosive solo renditions of Don Van Vliet’s twisted instrumental compositions, “Flavor Bud Living” and “Evening Bell”—about which the latter piece Esquire wrote “Gary Lucas apparently grew extra fingers in order to negotiate his way through it”. These recordings put Gary on the musical map as a force to be reckoned with, and laid the groundwork for his subsequent career.



In 1988, Gary Lucas mounted his first solo guitar show at New York’s downtown mecca for avant-garde and alternative music, the Knitting Factory, and was an instant hit. The club became the launching pad for Gary’s ensuing European success, as he was invited shortly after his first Knitting Factory gig to appear at the prestigious 1988 Berlin JazzFest, where a performance of his solo piece “Verklarte Kristallnacht” was broadcast live from the festival on WDR on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht and absolutely stunned the audience. The Berlin Morgenpost raved in a review the next day: “It is Lucas!”



To date Gary Lucas has released over 20 highly acclaimed albums in various different genres (psychedelic rock, solo acoustic, world music, electronic dance, rock-jazz, classical, ambient), played as a guest on over 50 other albums, and has performed in 40 countries around the world, from Tokyo to Tel Aviv.



In summer 2009 Gary made well received debuts in Latin America (closing the 1st International Sao Paulo Fantasy Film Festival SP Terror accompanying the silent horror film “The Golem” and performing and recording in Bogota Colombia with legendary Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham) and in South Korea (appearing at the 5th Jecheon International Film and Music Festival with “The Golem”). He has performed in India with DJ Cosmo in their Wild Rumpus project, and made his Australian debut in the company of UK electronica band Future Sound of London and returned recently for 4 triumphant shows at festivals in Sydney and Melbourne. He has been a regular visitor to London’s Royal Festival Hall (5 separate appearances) and Amsterdam’s famed Paradiso (over 20 separate appearances since 1980). He recently expanded his touring base to Russia, and has made 5 separate appearances in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In summer 2006 he performed his original solo guitar score accompanying the silent classic German horror film “The Golem” (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) in landmark cinemas in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, appeared on national tv before an estimated 50 million viewers, and was profiled in the Russian edition of Rolling Stone.



Since debuting his live score for “The Golem” in the company of his original collaborator, keyboardist/composer Walter Horn in 1989 at the Museum of the Moving Image on a commission from the BAM Next Wave Festival, he’s played with “The Golem” in over 20 countries all over the world—including sold-out performances at the Venice Biennale, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London’s Royal Festival Hall, in Budapest, in festivals in Spain, Switzerland and Italy, opening the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, as part of a weeklong artist-in-residency at the Quebec City Summer Festival, and in Prague, home of the Golem. He has also performed with the film at Atlanta’s Dragon*Con, the largest science fiction festival in the world.



Gary also tours with several other music and film projects, including “Sounds of the Surreal”, a program commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, accompanying 3 short silent film classics by Rene Clair, Fernand Leger, and Ladislaw Starewicz, with his original guitar scores—and “Monsters from the Id”, where Gary improvises live soundtracks to clips from horror classics by Roman Polanski, Mario Bava, Ray Harryhausen, and others. Gary presented the European premiere of “Sounds of the Surreal” in Vienna in September 2007, and in February 2009 played a triumphant performance before a packed hall in the Wintergarden of NYC’s World Financial Center. He composed a live silent film score is for the Lon Chaney film “The Unholy Three” (1925, d. Tod Browning), a commission from the Film Society of Lincoln Center which premiered to rave notices at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater in October 2009. He has composed a live score accompanying the 1931 Spanish-language “Dracula” (d. Enrique Tovar Avalos and Henry Melford) which he premiered to the world at the 31st Havana Film Festival in December 2009, and to the US at the 48th New York Film Festival in October 2010.



Over a long performing career Gary Lucas has played and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Lou Reed, John Cale, Robyn Hitchock, Nick Cave, David Johansen, jazz greats Roswell Rudd, Steve Swallow, Alan Vega, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, the Willem Breuker Kollektieff, Yael Naim and David Donatien, Ninet Tayeb, Anath Benais, Bob Holman, Greg Cohen, Alan Vega, Piers Faccini, Ensemble Kamelon, Marc Ribot, Dean Bowman, Jennifer Charles, Lee Ranaldo, Mary Margaret O’Hara, John Zorn, Peter Stampfel, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jon Spencer, Mike Edison, Kevin Coyne, Claudia Brucken (Propaganda), Paul Humphreys (OMD). Future Sound of London, Joan Osborne (Gary co-wrote Joan’s Grammy-nominated song “Spider Web” from her triple platinum album “Relish”), Najma Ahktar, Karsh Kale, Essra Mohawk, Matthew Sweet, Iggy Pop, Van Dyke Parks, Dead Combo, Adrian Sherwood, Bryan Ferry, Boris Grebentchikov, Eric Mingus, the Plastic People of the Universe, Richard Barone, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Bob Neuwirth, Geoff Muldaur, John Sebastian, Allen Ginsberg, DJ Spooky, Damo Suzuki and Michael Karoli (Can), Dr. John, Graham Parker, Bob Weir, David Krakauer, Frank London, Steve Bernstein’s Sex Mob, Medeski Martin and Wood, Tanger, Jean-Francois Pauvros, Min Xiao-Fen, Sonya Cohen, Celest Chong, Jonathan Kane, Jozef Van Wissem, Fred Schneider (B-52s), Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers, Gov’t. Mule), Salman Ahmad (Junoon), Dibyarka Chatterjee, and many others. Most recently his playing is featured prominently on former Soundgarden/Audioslave singer Chris Cornell’s album “Carry On”, and he played and co-wrote a song on the recent Onetwo album as well as the latest album by French singer Melissa Mars (Universal France).



Some of these collaborations can be heard on his 20-year rarities retrospective album “Improve the Shining Hour” which also features excerpts of his film and tv music for ABC News. Exhibiting a flair for composing soundtrack music going back to early student films he made as a boy in both the narrative and documentary genres, Gary has gone on to score 8 documentaries for ABC shows “20/20” and “Turning Point”, as well as music for Showtime and HBO documentaries. He’s also produced several major label albums for composer/saxophonists Tim Berne and Peter Gordon (Columbia and Columbia Masterworks retrospectively) as well as for the French avant-rock band Tanger (French Mercury). In 2001 Gary scored the Oscar-nominated Maysles Films documentary “Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton” for HBO, which recently screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Maysles Films 50 Year Retrospective, and about which Variety wrote: “Gary Lucas’ Delta blues guitar music adds vivid color to this report from America’s forgotten underbelly.” And he’s composed music for documentaries shown on Showtime (“Trust Me”), PBS (“Mayor of the West Side”, nominated for an Emmy this year), and at international film festivals (“The Legacy of Jedwabne”, which was also broadcast internationally).



Additionally Gary’s services as producer have resulted in several major label albums for composer/saxophonists Tim Berne and Peter Gordon on Columbia Records and Columbia Masterworks retrospectively, as well as for the French avant-rock band Tanger (French Mercury).



The breadth and scope of Gary Lucas’ work is impressive, and he straddles genres with ease. His 2001 entry in the World Music category, “The Edge of Heaven” a dreamy melodic album featuring his arrangements of Chinese pop music of the 1930s, was #1 on the World Music Charts in Canada, and garnered an unbelievable amount of international attention, England’s Q Magazine awarding it 4 Stars, and MOJO writing: “It is simply gorgeous.” In addition, the album was chosen as one of the Best Discs of the year in France’s Liberation newspaper. Gary’s experiences making the album also was also the subject of a lengthy profile for the album in The Wall Street Journal, as well as an NPR interview. The title song from the album was featured on the soundtrack to the Bill Moyers PBS Series “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience”. The album was re-released on the Knitting Factory label in 2010 with additional bonus tracks.



Gary’s latest foray into the World Music genre is a duo album collaboration with the UK Indian-based vocalist Najma Akhtar, who has released many solo albums of her own and has collaborated in the past with Page and Plant and Andy Summers. Gary and Najma’s album “RISHTE”, an album fusing folk, blues, raga, rock and more, was released on World Village/Harmonia Mundi worldwide in summer 2009 and continues to receive accolades around the world, including a 5 star review in the Financial Times. 



The critical raves go hand in hand with Gary’s international press standing.



In the last few years Gary has been profiled and interviewed in Rolling Stone, DownBeat, the Columbia University Spectator, Record Collector, The Wire, MOJO, the International Herald Tribune, the French daily paper Liberation, featured on the cover of the Jewish Weekly Forward, and profiled in the national Dutch newspaper Het Parool.



Recent live appearances include a specially commissioned concert at the Czech Embassy in Washington DC by invitation of the Czech ambassador to the US spotlighting Gary’s solo guitar arrangements of Czech classical music in honor of the 14th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution (Gary is of Bohemian descent on his father’s side). Gary has also made several solo tours of Spain, which resulted in much media appearances on national Basque radio and TV, and recently joined forces with the famous Spanish spoken word artist Bruno Galindo which resulted in a sold-out appearance in Mexico’s Casa de Lago in the fall of 2008 and several very well received shows in NYC. The duo is working on a new album together scheduled fusing Galindo’s surrealistic poetry with Gary’s ambient guitar.



Gary Lucas has also lectured over the years on his life and career in music, his songwriting technique, extensive collaborations, and the music business from the inside, at the Amsterdam Music Conservatorum, Yale University (his alma mater), the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, New York University and Columbia University. He also has given guitar master classes at Amsterdam’s Paradiso, the Amsterdam Music Conservatorum, and at the University of Hawaii. In March 2006 he gave a lecture and solo performance at McGill University in Montreal for a course taught by Prof. Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult/Clash producer) and Music School Dean Don McLean entitled “Bruckner and Heavy Metal”, where Gary performed his “Bruckner Fantasia” based on themes from Bruckner’s 8th Symphony, which was filmed and broadcast on CTV, the Canadian national television network. He also recently gave a Master Class and lecture at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, as part of their “Eyes of the Masters” series.



Recent soundtrack work includes an original music for Sebastian Doggart’s “American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi”, which was just nominated for the Maysles Award for Best Documentary at the Starz Denver Film Festival. “Trust Me”, a Showtime documentary about a summer camp for Christian, Muslim and Jewish children, and a score for Slawomir Grunberg’s “They Called Me Mayer July” (2009) and also for his award-winning documentary “Bed and Breakfast 9/11”, which was shown on PBS. In addition he scored and is interviewed in Grunberg’s “The Legacy of Jedwabne,” which is continually playing the international film festival circuit and has been broadcast internationally. He also has contributed music to several BBC documentaries recently as well as a Canadian Movie of the Week, “Dragon Boys.” Gary recently wrapped an original score for a documentary about American Ivy League collegiate football, “For Love and Honor” (2008, d. Erik Anjou) as well as a new score for the Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Bull for his latest film “Dirty Business—Clean Coal and the Battle for Our Energy Future”, which was funded and commissioned by the Center for Investigative Research.



Recent collaborations include several albums with Dutch lutist Jozef Van Wissem, including “The Universe of Absence,” and “Diploplia”, and the pair recently performed live on the Dutch national tv network VPRO show “Free Sounds”.



Gary Lucas is also working with the UK-based DJ Cosmo (Colleen Murphy) on a dance-oriented duo project called Wild Rumpus. Their first single “Musical Blaze-Up” sold-out it’s 12-inch vinyl run in 2 days upon release in May 2007, was played extensively on the BBC and on European radio, received rave reviews in Time Out London, Time Out New York, and HITS Magazine, and was chosen as one of the Best of the Week by iTunes UK, who made it available for download on a special sampler alongside tracks by Prince, Crowded House and Gwen Stefani. Their second single “Purple Somersault” was similarly well received and sold out its vinyl pressing almost immediately. Gary has been performing DJ improv sets with Cosmo as Wild Rumpus in a variety of exotic locales, including high profile gigs in Romania and India, and at the London ICA. They recently made their live NYC debut before a full house at famed New York dance club Cielo. A third single “Rock the Joint” featuring UK Human Beatbox Champion Beardyman crashed into the UK dance charts on the heels of a hand animated video by Tabitha O’Connell (Ren and Stimpy), and a fourth single “Kazan” was released in Japan in summer 2009. A full Wild Rumpus album release is scheduled for 2011.



In addition, Gary recently released a collaborative album with UK electronica ensemble The Dark Poets (James Hunter and Sarah Hilliard) “Beyond the Pale” on the Some Bizarre label. In a review of the album the Independent (UK) wrote: “Gary Lucas is possibly the world’s most popular avant-rock guitarist.”



In April 2009 Gary Lucas released a collaborative album with Swiss avant-garde guitarist Gerald Zbinden entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole”, an epic sound phantasmagoria without words that is racking up impressive reviews internationally. Moors Magazine (Holland) wrote: “Sound so sophisticated and so unusual, they magically transport you without the aid of overdubs. This album is an absolute must!” In Spring 2009 came a collaboration “The Exploding Note Theory” with Italian psych-rockers Gallo + The Roosters which was chosen as Album of the Month in Blow Up magazine (Italy).



In November 2009 Gary Lucas released on Knitting Factory Records an album of his spiritual roots duo project Chase the Devil with jazz/blues vocalist Dean Bowman (Screaming Headless Torsos, Don Byron). The duo recorded their debut album with Steve Addabo (Shawn Colvin) and embarked on a well-received European tour spanning 6 countries in Nov. 2009. The albu received 4 stars in DownBeat and a track from the album “Hinay Ma Tov” was Song of the Day on National Public Radio. The Knitting Factory label also re-released his album of 30’s Chinese pop “The Edge of Heaven” in Nov. 2009.



In the works for a 2011 release is a new album of instrumental versions of classic Rolling Stones hits arranged and performed by Gary in the company of several outstanding Latin American musicians, recorded in Bogota and produced by legendary Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham.



All in all, GARY LUCAS continues to live up the credo of his favorite artist, Bob Dylan—“He not busy being born is busy dying”—by continuing to record, release and perform an astonishing variety of music in as many arenas of the global village as possible.



Gary Lucas makes his home in New York City.



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jeudi 30 septembre 2010

Films... Emotions: line up

LINE UP 2010 2012

GLAMROCK CITY (Completed) Rogue sexy road Movie

Two young women, in search of inspiration, kill men
to capture their last breathe. Creating art from their death for an important exhibition.
Starring: Sophie Noel, Maria Guzeeva,
Directed by Christophe K. Kourdouly and Stephane Jauny
Production language: French / English
Runtime: 1h 25mn
Website
Winner Houston WordFest Remi Gold Award
Selected at Cluj, International Film Festival, Cluj Napoca, Romania, NY Independent Film & Video festival, L.A. Independent Film & Video festival, Dakhla

GOOD FRIDAYS - Vendredi Saints (Production April 2011) coproduction FR/Croatia/Ger Intervista (Germany) DDK (croatia)
Drama
A former top cop from Hamburg gets pulled back in his past, while he is away in Corsica to visit an old friend.
Starring and confirmed: Anne Consigny, Vahina Giocante, Benno Furmann, Michael Madsen
Directed by TBA
Budget = 3.5M€
Production language: English
Theatrical Distribution and Sales: Pathé Pathe (fr theatrical), Telepool (German theatrical),

The producers :
Christophe K. Kourdouly Producer
Feature film: Glamrock City 2010 (Houston Remi Gold Award, New York best foreign film 2010). Selected at Lagos EKOIFF, Woodstock, Seoul, 7 festivals so far…
10 shorts, one documentary (90') on the city Appolonia for ITV.
«Vegas Show» (short formats serie for France 5)
Sales agent for Atmosphere and RGH Lions Share (USA) 1995-1998 :
Financal engeneering for US feature films.
Sale Side Analyst Media for Paine Webber NY andGlobal Equities Paris 1998-2002.
Bruno Chatelin Producer
HEC, Ad Agencies: Publicis, Masius, JWT… production of 2 spots réalisés directed by Andrei Konchalovski, starring Sophie Marceau for Lux, one remake of South by South West for Mastercard.
Marketing Dr Columbia TriStar Films France, Terminator 2, Independence Day…
Founding Managing Director UGC FOX, released over 250 films.
Co founder of FilmFestivals.com partner of leading festivals
Managing Director EICAR (film school in Cherbourg) and Cinergie Productions (corporate films and ads, coprod of Foon a feature film directed by les Quiches…)
Managing Director: Karoui & Karoui Entertainment producer of 50 episodes of «Who wants to be a millionaire? » (53% rating on Algerian national TV ENTV), developed and initiated several TV Call formats for Maghreb
Contacts
3 Rue Saint Philippe du Roule, 75008 Paris / +33 1 42 56 24 38
Christophe Kay Kourdouly Producteur associé
+33 6 72 94 12 82 christophe@antetimeprod.com
Bruno Chatelin Producteur associé
+33 6 80 99 57 34 brunochatelin@gmail.com