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Cambodian/American psychedelic band Dengue Fever has been invited by UCLA Live to perform their highly acclaimed score to the silent film classic "The Lost World" (1925) on Friday, November 12 at Royce Hall. For details visit http://www.uclalive.org/calendar/event_detail.sp?id
This score was commissioned in 2009 by the San Francisco International Film Festival and has only been performed live twice (in San Francisco and again in Houston for the 2009 Cinema Arts Festival).
About the film (http://fest09.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=53):
"Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel of the same name, The Lost World revels in adventure-flick thrills but is equally effective as a cinematic document of our fascination with our own prehistory. Featuring amazing stop-motion sequences by animation pioneer Willis O’Brien, who later animated King Kong, and enlivened by outlandish costumes and sets, this dyno-dino epic was a smash hit upon its release in the mid-Roaring Twenties...
While the film exemplifies groundbreaking cinematic techniques and razzle-dazzle storytelling, it also serves as a reminder of (hopefully) obsolete American attitudes toward the big, bad world at large. Amid its now dissonant charms are anachronistic cultural stereotypes regarding science, marriage and race..."
Wired.com called Dengue Fever's exotic blend of Cambodian pop, Bollywood tinges and Ethiopian jazz influences "perfect" for the film soundtrack, and Twtchfilm.com exclaimed that "Dengue Fever blew the dome off the Castro" with their debut performance.
Best,
Tracy Blackburn
It's Alive! Media & Management
Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details (what, when, where, and a link, for starters) - I'll handle the rest.
Cambodian/American psychedelic band Dengue Fever has been invited by UCLA Live to perform their highly acclaimed score to the silent film classic "The Lost World" (1925) on Friday, November 12 at Royce Hall. For details visit http://www.uclalive.org/calendar/event_detail.sp?id
This score was commissioned in 2009 by the San Francisco International Film Festival and has only been performed live twice (in San Francisco and again in Houston for the 2009 Cinema Arts Festival).
About the film (http://fest09.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=53):
"Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel of the same name, The Lost World revels in adventure-flick thrills but is equally effective as a cinematic document of our fascination with our own prehistory. Featuring amazing stop-motion sequences by animation pioneer Willis O’Brien, who later animated King Kong, and enlivened by outlandish costumes and sets, this dyno-dino epic was a smash hit upon its release in the mid-Roaring Twenties...
While the film exemplifies groundbreaking cinematic techniques and razzle-dazzle storytelling, it also serves as a reminder of (hopefully) obsolete American attitudes toward the big, bad world at large. Amid its now dissonant charms are anachronistic cultural stereotypes regarding science, marriage and race..."
Wired.com called Dengue Fever's exotic blend of Cambodian pop, Bollywood tinges and Ethiopian jazz influences "perfect" for the film soundtrack, and Twtchfilm.com exclaimed that "Dengue Fever blew the dome off the Castro" with their debut performance.
Best,
Tracy Blackburn
It's Alive! Media & Management
Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details (what, when, where, and a link, for starters) - I'll handle the rest.
