Lou Reed’s Berlin – SXSW screening + listen to Caroline Says II
By bandweblogs on Mar 5, 2008 in Albums, Music, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Berlin, Julian Schnabel, Lou Reed, Movies, Music, Shows, SXSW, The Black Angels, The Ravonettes
Waterboy & Jon Kilik present – a Grandview Pictures/LM Media GMbH Production, a film by Julian Schnabel: Lou Reed’s BERLIN.
Lou Reed recorded the album ‘Berlin’ in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann’s Warehouse Brooklyn, Lou Reed performed his masterwork about love’s dark sisters; jealousy, rage and loss. – Julian Schnabel
Staging Berlin has been discussed for over 30 years and in December of 2006 it became a reality. Berlin was said to be one of the most depressing albums ever made and as it was brought to life it was far from dismal. Using the divided city of Berlin as its backdrop the story of Caroline and her lovers is told through the emotive and provocative words of Lou Reed.
LISTEN TO “CAROLINE SAYS II” from Lou Reed’s Berlin
With performers like Fernando Saunders, Antony, Steve Hunter, Rob Wassermann, Rupert Christie and Sharon Jones, a seven piece orchestra and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus all working to create a captivating and enveloping world, Lou Reed is able to take the audience with him as he bares witness to Caroline’s self-destruction.
Julian’s set design creates the backdrop of a hotel with greenish walls and with Lola Schnabel’s films displaying the beauty and tragedy of the narrator’s leading lady (played by Emmanuelle Seigner) the experience is devastating and beautiful.
There will be a screening of Lou Reed’s Berlin at SXSW in Austin on Wed March 12, 2008 at 4pm at the Paramount Theatre, with an after-party following the screening featuring The Ravonettes, The Black Angels and more.
Lou Reed will be the keynote speaker at this year’s SXSW conference on Thursday March 13 at the Austin Convention Center.
Director Julian Schnabel’s films include Basquiat which he wrote and directed, Before Night Falls which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2000 and most recently, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, which earned him the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 2007 and was nominated for 4 Oscars in 2008.
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