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     Roger Griffin Member Username: Roger Post Number: 51 Registered: 11-2004 |
A new feature film "Monkey Puzzle" features a soundtrack by Amanda Brown. The film tells the story of a group of friends who set out to find a Wollemi pine tree in the Blue Mountains. The quest soon becomes unstuck and fear and insecurity leads to suspicion and betrayal. Amanda Brown’s music is the heartbeat of the film - filigree guitar figures give way to brooding soundscapes and desolate woodwind as hope fades. The score is complemented by two cover versions – Knievel taking on the Numbers 1980 classic "Five Letter Word" and Josh Pyke covers Knievel’s "Something Good Must Come". Monkey Puzzle will screen at the London Australian Film Festival at the Barbican, on Sunday March 9. Writer/director Mark Forstmann and producer Tamara Popper will be there to introduce the film and answer questions. The film opened the Byron Bay Film Festival on February 29, followed by a cast and crew screening in Sydney on March 4. Monkey Puzzle will be released in Australia in midwinter. I can attest that the score is beautiful and I urge you folks in UK to attend. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2095 Registered: 05-2005 |
A friend whose daughter is in the film went to the preview the other night and said it was great - the film and the music. He saw Amanda and Lindy there. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 51 Registered: 10-2006 |
How pleasing to hear this news, I saw the play 'Incognita', 2002 from memory,the play was about the plight of an Aboriginal young girl who we saw living after being 'stolen',on a North Queensland Water Station some time ago, maybe even now. The play was staged at an open air theatre beside the Yarra in Melbourne in an area returned to the Aborigines for Heritage. The area is called 'Birrarung Marr'. The play was intense, high on emotional longing,a fair insight into culture clashs and the want to be free. The music immersed you and Amanda's arrangements guided you through each character with clever licks of their emotional status. Lyric's like 'I am the accident, in the rear view mirror, that hasn't happened yet' and 'and we drink, we drink to forget, all the things we have'nt done yet'pretty much establish the hot and dry landscape. The album 'Icognita',its 14 tracks 'a joy to have'. 'Monkey Puzzle' mid-year here, 'The Evangelist' just around the corner, I'm keeping above my music waterline. Two ironies from all of this for me are ,the link to the recent 'Apology'by the Australian PM and the play 'Incognita'plus the North Queensland location probably not far from Grant's early upbringing years at Rockhampton Qld, Aust. Again thanks for this great news. |