CELLULOID ROCK FILM FESTIVAL

Rip It Up, Issue 219, 1 November 1995, Page 5

CELLULOID ROCK FILM FESTIVAL

A Festival of music films starts at Auckland’s Capitol November 17 and Wellington’s Paramount December 1. The movies span from Blackboard Jungle (1955) that launched Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’ to 1988’s The Decline of Western Civilisation Part II — The Metal Years, before the director went on to make Wayne’s World. Other rarely seen films include the Clash live in Rude Boy (1980), the Rolling Stones in concert debacle Gimme Shelter, Derek Jarman’s punk classic Jubilee (1978), the Ramones in Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1979), Nancy Sinatra and Peter Fonda in Wild Angels (1966), the Who and Ken Russell indulge in Tommy (1975), Kiwi classic Queen City Rocker (1986), Bon Scott era AC/DC in Let There Be Rock (1980) and Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1982).

Two of the finest in-concert movies screen. Monterey Pop (1968) captures brilliant performances by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and the Who. Let the Good Times Roll (1973) captures the energy, arrogance and insanity of the greats of 50s rock ‘n’ roll in a revival concert / doco / ego expo featuring Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, the Coasters and the Shirelles.

Other curios include swinging London with Paul Jones (Manfred Mann) in Privilige (1967) and Woody Allen, an egg salad recipe and the Lovin’ Spoonful in What’s Up Tiger Lily (1966) and the Roger Corman and Country Joe & the Fish hippie satire G-A-S-S-S-S (1970). Look out for the Festival catalogues early November.