Via The Cinefamily: Folk troubador Bonnie 'Prince' Billy will be here in-person (January 7th, 8 p.m.) at the Cinefamily to present a hand-picked double feature of films that explore the wonder and the mystery of the fairer sex. Even diehard music fans out there might not be aware of Billy's intense love of cinema, and we welcome the opportunity to let the man give us two of his favorites.
The evening opens with Nicholas Ray's soapy noir A Woman's Secret (1949), starring the ravishing Maureen O'Hara as a singing teacher blamed for the shooting of her smarmy protégé (Gloria Grahame), "a trollop-minded chirp she has coached into the bigtime." (Variety) Scripted by Herman J. Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), the film is a chance for Ray to take what could have been an average "woman's picture" and tweak it to suit his slightly perverse sensibilities. Next, Wim Wenders' Alice In The Cities (1974). This German New Wave gem finds a roving reporter who reluctantly takes on the guardianship of Alice, a little girl who needs to be delivered to her grandmother -- a woman whose name and address she doesn't remember, and whose house can only be identified by a single photo of an unmarked front door. Yella Röttlander's stellar performance as the young girl whose journey's end is always one more step away is framed terrifically by Robby Mueller's B&W cinematography, and a moody score by Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli (half of Krautrock legends Can).
* Related: Will Oldham talks shit about Wes Anderson to The Onion.
No idea how recent this is (I think its old), but I find it tremendously entertaining. A Bonnie Prince Billy "tour diary." Here's a bit of it:
q: Do you smoke weed? a: yes we do sometimes. q: What do you think of Lars Von Triers oeuvre? a: we are not partial to the school of thought that puts a group of movies or records under the classification of an individual. so...we liked BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS, but not for any of the same reasons. We will probably not see DOGVILLE.q: Do you like Godspeed You Black Emperor, or do you think that they are a bunch of pretentious Gorecki rip-offs?a: no and no.
