Get What You Want: Music Cinema

Settle in for a very cool spring watching documentaries featuring your favourite and iconic music stars with Get What You Want: Music Cinema, screening at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA.

The program is as wide and varied as the world of musical acts is, with everyone from revered pop and rock legends like Madonna, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse standing alongside docos such as Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music (2000), exploring how the genre of music features themes of loss and endurance that resonate strongly with indigenous people.

There are also feature films with musical themes, from the Coen Brothers’ acclaimed 2013 film, Inside Llewyn Davis; Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead (2011) where he directed and starred as Miles David; punk classic, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains (1982), and the dearly departed Prince’s Purple Rain (1984).

Whether it’s hip hop, folk, country, disco, punk, metal, reggae or otherwise, there’s going to be something to lure everyone into the GOMA cinema.

Opening Night on 2 September is one that Madonna fans won’t want to miss. At 6pm there’s the new documentary, Strike a Pose (2016), exploring the life of Madonna’s back-up dancers during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour, and this is followed by the notorious In Bed with Madonna (1991).

Then there’s the portrait of tortured Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, with Montage of Heck (2015), the equally heartbreaking story of Amy Winehouse in Amy (2015), while more obscure tastes are also catered for. For instance, there’s the rarely screened underground doco, All Ears: A Glimpse into the Los Angeles Beat Community (2013), which looks at the scene of the mid-2000s Low End Theory nightclub in Los Angeles and the influence of producers, J Dilla and Madlib.

Get What You Need: Music Cinema is being held in conjunction with Brisbane Festival, giving you even plenty of reasons to experience this stimulating season of arts in our fair city. QAGOMA Director, Chris Saines, says of the film series, “We witness the motivations of some of the most mythologised stars of modern music as well as far-flung communities where grass roots movements are localising contemporary genres to powerful effect.”

Need to know - 5-Film discounts are available at GOMA Box Office.

See the full program HERE.

BUY TICKETS HERE

By Vicki Englund