Living theatre and sinema

http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/
http://www.stand-upcomedy.com/
www.shagwithatwist.com - interpretation of shag and twist 1950''sthrough live performance with choreography and music.
www.12premise.com - the play of the new century about another generational exploration/exploitation of love, sex, and friendship in the 21 century.

Let''s go to http://www.scion.com/route - it''s Independent film -festival ROUTE 05 in Scilence theatre.
This summer, Route 05: Scion Independent Film Series will bring the best and brightest upcoming filmmakers and their work to six major cities across the US. Route 05 will feature screenings of four award-winning independent films in each city over four weeks: "Bomb The System," "End of the Century," "Freestyle," and "DIG!" which were selected for their groundbreaking style and subject matter.

Between July and September, Scion will be stationed in New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, and Miami premiering one of these innovative movies every week. The opening night of each movie will be marked by a premier event that will feature music from the area''s best DJ''s. After the film, attendees will have the chance to meet the filmmakers at a VIP reception, take part in a Q&A session with the producers/directors of the film, and enjoy complimentary beverages with the cities film connoisseurs. After the event, the movie will be playing on a regular schedule until the premier of the next movie the following week.

END OF THE SENTURY

In 1974, the New York City music scene was shocked into consciousness by the violently new and raw sound of a band of misfits from Queens called the Ramones. Playing in a seedy Bowery bar to a small group of fellow struggling musicians, the band struck a chord of disharmony that rocked the foundation of the mid-seventies music scene. This quartet of unlikely rock stars traveled across the country and around the world connecting with the disenfranchised everywhere, while sparking a movement that would resonate with two generations of outcasts across the globe. Although the band never reached the top of the Billboard charts, they managed to endure in face of fleeting success and crushing interpersonal conflicts by maintaining a rigorous touring schedule for twenty-two years. Tracing the history of the band, from its unlikely origins, through its star-crossed career, bitter demise and the sad fates of Joey and Dee Dee, End of the Century is a vibrant, candid document of one of the most influential groups in the history of rock.

Патриархи панковского движения The Ramones совершили сразу два переворота в рок-н-ролле - теоретический и практический. Они опирались на исходные, самые простые составляющие рок-н-ролла - четыре аккорда, привлекательные мелодии, элементарные тексты, только заметно ускорили темп. Стиль Ramones, уходящий корнями в добитловский рок и поп-музыку ранних 60-х, пройдя через их экспериментальную лабораторию, неузнаваемо изменился и зазвучал свежо и оригинально. Проведя революционную работу в пределах рок-жанра, Ramones автоматически возглавили новорожденную панковскую сцену Нью-Йорка. Ни их непосредственные предшественники в лице Stooges или New York Dolls, ни их талантливые последователи (Sex Pistols среди первых) не достигали такого мастерства в выворачивании рок-традиций наизнанку, в стилизации глупости и эксплуатации кича. Их первые альбомы задали стандарт развития всего американского панка, от которого и сами музыканты благополучно не отступали еще двадцать лет.

В Европе середины 70-х Ramones и Sex Pistols воспринимались как две ключевые фигуры актуальной панк-рок-революции. Но, как известно, Sex Pistols скоропалительно скончались, а их американские коллеги прожили еще долго, хотя и не очень счастливо.

Свои фамилии парни взяли от прозвища Пола Маккартни – "Рамон". фильм режиссера Роджера Кормена (Roger Corman) "Rock N'' Roll High School" (1979), к созданию которого Ramones имели самое непосредственное отношение, сыграв ключевые роли и записав звуковую дорожку к картине.
Хорошую ротацию на радио получил сингл "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg", критиковавший визит Президента Рональда Рейгана в Германию, во время которого он посетил могилы нацистов.

В 89-м музыканты написали заглавную музыкальную тему для фильма Стивена Кинга (Stephen King) "Pet Semetary", включив эту же композицию в свой новый студийный релиз "Brain Drain" (1989). Песня "Pet Semetary" очень понравилась рок-аудитории и финишировала на 4 строке рейтинга рок-треков. Что нисколько не помогла альбому улучшить свой коммерческий результат - # 122 в чарте Billboard 200.

К началу 90-х команда подошла не только с несколькими кадровыми потерями, но и с серьезными проблемами со здоровьем. В частности, Джоуи и Марки пришлось лечь в реабилитационную клинику, чтобы наконец избавиться от алкоголизма.

Aльбом "Mondo Bizarro" был коммерческим неудачником -190-я строка в Billboard 200, хотя и включал довольно крепкий политизированный трек "Censorshit".
Летом 1996 года, через двадцать лет после появления дебютного альбома, Ramones решили поставить финальную точку в своей творческой биографии. Прощание с публикой состоялось 6 августа 1996 года в голливудском клубе "Palace".

Мечты о возвращении, которые теплились в сердцах многочисленных панк-фанов, не находили никакого отклика у самих музыкантов. В 1999 году вокалист Джоуи Реймон недвусмысленно описал отношения между музыкантами как, мягко говоря, прохладные.

Через несколько лет родоначальники панка начали уходить не только со сцены, но и из жизни. Всего за месяц до своего 50-летия, весной 2001 года, от рака скончался фронтмен Джоуи Реймон. А еще через год проводили в последний путь Ди Ди Реймона. Он еще успел побывать на церемонии введения Ramones в Зал славы рок-н-ролла в декабре 2001 года. Музыкантов удостоили этой чести за то, что они играли "со скоростью близкой звуковому барьеру".
B 2004 В Лос-Анджелесе cкончался один из основателей Ramones, 55-летний Джонни Рамон - рак простаты, от которого музыкант страдал последние пять лет.

Джонни Рамон, настоящее имя которого было Джон Каммингс (John Cummings), умер во сне в своем доме. В этот момент рядом с ним находились его жена Линда, а также солист группы Pearl Jam Эдди Веддер (Eddie Vedder), гитарист Red Hot Chili Peppers Джон Фрусчанте (John Frusciante) и рок-музыкант Роб Зомби (Rob Zombie). Все эти музыканты выступали 12 сентября на концерте в Лос-Анджелесе, посвященном 30-летию Ramones.

Тело музыканта кремировано, на могиле планируется установить его фигуру.

On 2d street now and forever we have Johe Ramone Plaza.



Попрощавшись со сценой в середине 90-х, Ramones незримо присутствуют в современной музыке. В марте 2003 года вышел альбом-трибьют Ramones, созданный усилиями звезд высочайшего класса. Достаточно назвать имена только нескольких участников проекта - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiss, Metallica, U2, Том Уэйтс (Tom Waits), Эдди Веддер, Garbage, чтобы понять, какие яркие артисты считают своим долгом отдать дань памяти нью-йоркским панкам первого призыва.

/Michael Gramaglia (Co-director/Producer) was born in 1964, living his early life in Mamaroneck, New York. The son of a feature soundman, Michael was raised in a family with extensive ties to the film world. After graduating high school, he worked as boom and video operator for eight years. He lived in Rome, Italy for three years where he apprenticed under Vittorio Storaro. Upon his return to the U.S., Michael daylighted in an entertainment financial management firm where he worked with and befriended the Ramones. "End of the Century" is Michael''s first feature film. He lives in Queens, NY with his wife, two cats and a dog.

Jim Fields (Co-director/Producer, Co-editor) was born in Manhattan in 1964 and grew up in Larchmont, New York. He met Michael at Mamaroneck High School where they shared an enthusiasm for super-8mm filmmaking, the Ramones, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, the Cars, Blondie and many others. After graduating from Vassar College in 1986, Jim became an apprentice editor and, later, an editor and graphic designer for TV commercials, music videos and long-format projects. Jim has edited and directed for a wide variety of clients including MTV, NBC, SONY Music and "The Howard Stern Show". End of the Century is Jim''s first feature film. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and baby son. /

FREE STYLE
FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme, experimental in its nature as an improvisational film: no showing of the program is ever the same experience, combining the best of independent art house cinema within the hip-hop mix tape format. The project features appearances by: Supernatural, Mos Def, Black Thought & ?uestlove of the Roots, Freestyle Fellowship, Lord Finesse, Cut Chemist, Craig G, Juice, Boots of the Coup, Medusa, Planet Asia, Sway, Crazy Legs, Jurasic-5, Wordsworth, Bobitto Garcia, and The Last Poets. FREESTYLE offers us a context in which to view living art as a social critique in story and rhyme that is designed to bring about a cathartic transformation of frustration into beauty. Following some of the best MC''s ever to bless the mic, the film features legendary battles including those of the film''s hero; Supernatural pitted against his arch nemesis Craig G providing the through line for the story. As these artists improvise poetry out of a mix of language, politics and culture that make up their lives, we discover revolutionary worlds where the English language is subverted and re-appropriated as a tool of economic and social empowerment.

/Kevin Fitzgerald was born to a West Indian mother and Irish-American father in New York in the early 1970''s, and has been DJ''ing since the age of 14. He is Co-Founder with Carlos Ninos, of the popular radio show, "All @ One Point," on KPFK 90.7 FM, in Los Angels. He is also a founding organizer of The Center for Hip-Hop Education and responsible for creating and promoting (along with MC Hymnal of Dark Leaf) the open-mic The Breaks (the birthplace of the live hip-hop band Breakestra) and the original incarnation of the popular weekly LA club The Root Down/.

DIG!
DIG! follows the talented underground musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of The Dandy Warhols §б star-crossed friends and bitter rivals. From the moment they met Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet the musicians'' choices over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds. Shot over seven years and culled from 1,500 hours of footage, DIG! is about both musicians'' love and obsession, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and their choice between art and industry.

/Grammy-nominated director/producer Ondi Timoner graduated Yale University cum laude and founded Interloper Films in 1994. She filmed the documentaries Voices From Inside Time about incarcerated women in Connecticut, winner of the Yale Film Prize - and later, The Nature of the Beast, about one woman''s heroic journey through the criminal justice system, winner of the Bettina Russel Grand Jury Prize in Canada and The National Society for Visual Anthropology Commendation, which aired on PBS. She later went on to shoot Dam Nation, shot in the oldest living civilization of sub-Saharan Africa about a WTO dam. For broadcast television, Ondi has created and directed such original series as "Sound Affects" for VH1 - the highest-rated pilot in VH1''s history, and ABC''s highly successful "Switched." Ondi Timoner''s passion for the underdog is only equaled by her passion for music. Through Interloper Films she has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, Dave Koz, Vanessa Carlton, The Vines, Paul Westerberg and Lucinda Williams, among others, while simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing DIG! She has written two feature length narrative pieces, and directed one narrative short, entitled Recycle. Ondi''s intimate veritЁ¦ style has an immediacy that permeates DIG!, a seven-year project she completed the week she gave birth to her son, Joaquim/.

BOMB THE SYSTEM
In his feature film debut, director Adam Lough tells the story of Anthony "Blest" (Mark Webber), a talented street artist struggling to find his way in life and on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Bomb the System has traveled to over twenty film festivals world wide, won Best Feature at the SF Independent Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Athens and Cinema Paradise Film Festivals, and has earned Lough an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for ''Best First Feature.'' This visually exhilarating film was shot entirely on the streets of New York City and provides a candid and contradictory look at the life of a street artist.
/Adam Bhala Lough was raised in Washington, DC as the son of a Methodist Minister father and a Hindu Indian-immigrant mother. He began shooting short films at a young age, counting the films of Jim Jarmusch, Robert Rodriguez, Abel Ferrara and Spike Lee as his biggest influences. At age 19, Adam got his break by directing a pair of music videos for underground rap legend MF Doom. Bomb the System is his first feature, which has traveled to over twenty festivals worldwide, and has earned him an Independent Spirit Award for ''Best First Feature,'' and sixth place on Filmmaker''s Magazine''s ''Top 25 Independent Filmmakers to Watch of 2003.'' He was also named ''Best Director'' at HBO''s Urbanworld Film Festival. Recently, Adam was commissioned to direct a music video for Joe Strummer for the DVD Release of Jim Jarmusch''s Coffee & Cigarettes, and he is currently creating a behind the scenes documentary for Jarmusch''s new untitled project starring Bill Murray. Adam is a 2001 graduate from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BA in Film. He is represented by Creative Artists Agency./