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From Monsters and Critics.com Soundtracks News
The London landmark will stage showings of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Aliens and all three Lord Of The Rings movies among others at the first abbey road film festival in March. The Beatles won't be forgotten - there will also be screenings of A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine and Fab Four biopic Backbeat. The Abbey Road Film Festival will run from 19 March - 3 April 2005. The official Abbey Road Studios website reports, 'For sixteen days only, Studio 1, the world's largest purpose built recording studio, will be transformed into a fully functioning cinema, screening a selection from amongst the over one hundred and fifty major feature films scored at Abbey Road during the last 25 years. In these unique surroundings, the season will give a glimpse of the role that Abbey Road plays in maintaining London's pre-eminence as the world's greatest centre for film scoring. The season opens with the first movie scored there in 1981, Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark featuring a score by one of the world's greatest movie composers, John Williams. Amongst the other films in the season are all three of The Lord of the Rings films (Director: Peter Jackson/ Composer: Howard Shore), The Last Emperor (Director: Bernardo Bertolucci/Composers: David Byrne/Ryuichi Sakamoto), Aliens (Director: James Cameron/Composer: James Horner), The Talented Mr Ripley (Director: Anthony Minghella/Composer: Gabriel Yared), Gangs of New York (Director: Martin Scorsese/Composer: Howard Shore), Hilary and Jackie (Director: Anand Tucker/Composer: Barrington Pheloung). Highlighting Abbey Road's special association with The Beatles, there will also be rare screenings of A Hard Day's Night (Director: Dick Lester) and Yellow Submarine (Director: George Dunning) and Backbeat (Director: Iain Softley/Composer: Don Was). Saturday 19 March -Sunday 3 April 2005 © Copyright 2007 by monstersandcritics.com. This notice cannot be removed without permission. |
