Amoeba FREE Movie Mondays at Space 1520! August 31, 2009

WHAT Weekly Monday night music-related films, curated by Amoeba Music.
WHEN 6 Mondays - August 24th through September 28th at 8pm
WHERE in the courtyard of Space15Twenty, just up the street from Amoeba - 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 (enter from Cahuenga or Ivar)
WHY A neighborhood collaboration and a great way to spend a Monday night in Hollywood…and it's FREE!

August 31st at 8pm
FESTIVAL EXPRESS
A moment in rock n' roll history, starring such music legends as Janis Joplin, The Band, and the Grateful Dead. Festival Express was a multi-band, multi-day extravaganza in 1970. It was a portable festival; for five days, the bands and performers lived, slept, rehearsed and... aboard a customized train from Toronto, to Calgary, to Winnipeg, with a concert at each stop. Nearly as rewarding as the live performances are the candid scenes of the train ride itself, an endless jam session and party during which musicians of all shapes and sizes let their hair down--musically and otherwise.

NEW MOVIE for Monday – September 7th – 8pm
The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Available on DVD from Shout! Factory. The compelling story of one of the greatest musical moments of the 60s -- the night that James Brown took the stage of the Boston Garden, in a concert that was broadcast live and credited with holding back the riots in Boston after the death of Martin Luther King! This great documentary recounts the tale with performance footage, recollections of band members, and commentary from key figures – the DVD is packaged with a huge amount of bonus material too! The whole thing clocks in at around 175 minutes -- and features additional interviews with Charles Bobbitt, Al Sharpton, Rickey Vincent, Cornel West, and members of James Brown's Band.

September 14th at 8pm
Message To Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (1970)
Poorly organized by three upstart concert promoters, the festival brought together 600,000 music fans for a star-studded five-day event. While the lineup reads like a who's who of the era's greatest artists - The Who, Free, Taste, Tiny Tim, John Sebastian, Donovan, Ten Years After, The Moody Blues, Kris Kristofferson, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, ELP, Joan Baez, Jethro Tull, The Doors, and more - the overlying tensions threatened to drown out the music itself. Includes Jimi Hendrix's final stage performance.

September 21st at 8pm
Leonard Cohen - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival
A special screening of this previously unreleased concert film that captures Leonard Cohen at the commercial and critical peak at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Directed by Academy Award-winner Murray Lerner (From Mao To Mozart, Festival, The Ohter Side OF The Mirror: Bob Dylan, Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who). The DVD will be released by Sony Pictures in October.


September 28th at 8pm
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
A classic underdog story - with guitars and the members of Canadian metal band Anvil as the protagonists. Directed by their onetime roadie Sacha Gervasi, the film follows them on their mission to keep rocking, despite whatever setbacks come their way. View The Official Site!

"Hilarious and achingly touching. Critic's pick." - LA Weekly
"A real life Spinal Tap." - Spin

The DVD comes out October 6th and will be available at Amoeba!

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