(the exterminating angel)
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| el angel exterminador (the exterminating angel) |
  World premiere of Gary Lucas' new live score accompanying Luis Bunuel's 1962 surrealist masterpiece "El Ángel Exterminador" at the 33rd Havana Film Festival, 23 y 12 Cinema Havana 12/8/11  You got the moon: world premiere of Gary Lucas' new score for Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel" at the 33rd Havana Film Festival 12/8/11   |
On December 8th 2011, by invitation of the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, GARY LUCAS presented the world premiere of his new live solo guitar score accompanying Luis Bunuel's classic 1962 surrealist film "El Angel Exterminador" (The Exterminating Angel) at the 23 y 12 Cinema in Havana Cuba as part of the 33rd Havana Film Festival. This was the 3rd year in a row Gary has presented a world premiere of a new live film score at the Havana Film Festival. He began in 2009 debuting his live score for the legendary 1931 Spanish "Dracula" (d. George Melford)...and then again in 2010 he premiered his new live score for Jose Mojica Marins (a/k/a Coffin Joe)'s "Esta Noite Encarnerei no teu Cadaver" (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse). Gary has always loved the work of the master Luis Bunuel—his favorite director—and surrealism in general, and has previously composed live scores to accompany short surrealist silent classics by Rene Clair, Fernand Leger and Ladislaw Starewicz, commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2000. In this film, like Spanish "Dracula" Gary Lucas has a veritable blank slate to compose on sonically as the majority of the film consists of dialogue in Spanish only, with only two short piano cues by Raul Lavista occurring in the film. Read an interview with Gary about the project from the Diario del Festival of the Havana Film Festival 12/9/11. View a clip from the world premiere of Gary Lucas' new live score at the 33rd Havana Film Festival 12/8/11
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