From 9 to 14 August 2012, the first Rock Out music film festival was held at the Moscow 35mm cinema, organized by the Rock FM 95.2 radio station and the CoolConnection art association. The festival program was selected in accordance with the music format that the radio station adheres to. The main part of the works that can be heard on the 95.2 FM wave consists of well-known and beloved by many Western hits of the 70-80s, as well as the best examples of rock culture of our time.
For the audience who came to the festival screenings, the radio station chose excellent films about rock, a musical direction, in love for which several generations unite. These films, imbued with the drive of rock and roll rhythms, told about musical groups that have become cult. They reliably convey the era of the formation of rock culture, the atmosphere of its characteristic musical madness.
The festival attracted not only connoisseurs and lovers of rock and roll, but also those who know a lot about quality cinema, its program was designed for the widest audience. Opened by his painting "Straight to Hell Returns", which is augmented by a parody version directed by Alex Cox, with the participation of Courtney Love and The Clash and Pogues.
Viewers also watched a documentary film by American director Michael Winterbottom about the era of "Madchester" - "24-Hour Party People", a film by the Mailles brothers dedicated to the famous The Rolling Stones - "Give Me Home". Pink Floyd fans enjoyed revisiting the acclaimed Wall, directed by Alan Parker, and the biopic Control by Ian Curtis, the leader of Joy Division, directed by Anton Corbijn.
Of particular interest was the film by the famous Martin Scorsese "George Harrison: Life in the Material World." The master's new work is dedicated to one of the most modest and inconspicuous members of the Liverpool Four - the Beatles. This film, which ended the festival, is based on a variety of documentary and amateur filming that captured the artist at different moments of his life, at concerts, on trips, at home. This is a frank and undisguised truth about what this most inconspicuous "Beatle" was, the authenticity of which is confirmed by the producer's participation in the film of the musician's widow - Olivia Harrison.
The organizers of the festival promise to make it traditional. So, the audience and rock lovers can hope that next year it will show new interesting musical films dedicated to rock culture.
