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Belle & Sebastian main-man Stuart Murdoch’s
indie musical will get its DVD debut next month.
Written and directed by Murdoch, God Help
the Girl tells the story of three young musicians
– Emma Browning (Sleeping Beauty), Hannah
Murray (currently appearing as the Wildling girl
Gilly in Game of Thrones) and Olly Alexander
(Bright Star) – who hook up in Glasgow and
decide to form a band. God Help the Girl
premiered last year at the New Zealand Film
Festival and is due out on April 1. Belle &
Sebastian, who were one of the standout acts
at this year’s Laneways, have just released
their ninth studio album Girls in Peacetime
Want to Dance.
The dark comedy Birdman – due on DVD in May – was the big winner at this year’s Oscars.
A s well as the best
director statuette for
Mexican filmmaker
Alejandro Iñárritu, Birdman was
named Best Picture and also won
Academy Awards for Best
Original Screenplay and Best
Cinematography. The film is due
to land on DVD and Blu-ray
at the end of May.
It is expected to be followed
in June by the two films that
scooped the top acting prizes:
as expected, TheTheory of
Everything star Eddie Redmayne
took home the Best Actor
award, while Julianne Moore
scooped the Best Actress
Oscar for Still Alice.
However, a few of the other
winners are in-store now. Richard
Linklater’s epic coming-of-age
tale Boyhood (see feature on
page 18-19) had been expected
to dominate this year’s event, but
in the end had to settle for just
one Oscar – a Best Supporting
Actress gong for Patricia
Arquette. Also just released on
DVD and Blu-ray is Whiplash,
which deservedly earned J.K.
Simmons a Best Supporting
Actor Oscar.
Wes Anderson’s The Grand
Budapest Hotel finished equal
with Birdman in the Oscar take,
winning four Academy Awards
for Best Original Score, Make-
up and Hairstyling, Costumes
and Production Design. It was
released last year, along with
the Best Foreign Film winner Ida.
And keep an eye out next month
for Disney’s Big Hero 6, which
scooped the Best Animated Film
award.
Meanwhile, Citizenfour,
which won the Best Documentary
Oscar, is expected on DVD
around July.
It’s long overdue but Kiwi fans are finally
going to get see metal icons Mötley Crüe.
The legendary hair rockers have been
on an extended final tour since 2014,
with their final ever gig scheduled for
New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles. However,
last month Mötley Crüe confirmed their
first ever – and probably last – NZ show
at Auckland’s Vector Arena on May 9 and
are bringing along shock-rocker Alice
Cooper as very special guest.
Bassist Nikki Sixx says: “It’s the Final
Tour but it’s not a farewell because our
music will live on long after we’ve stopped
touring. We can’t wait to see everyone out
there in May.”.
QUEUE FOR CRUE!
A long forgotten member of The Jam and new prog
rockers Syd Arthur are among the contributors to the
latest studio album from Paul Weller.
Saturn’s Pattern is the Modfather’s 12th solo album and
will be released on May 8 through his new label Parlophone.
Written and recorded at his de facto HQ, Black Barn Studios
in Surrey, it was produced by Jan “Stan” Kybert and Weller
himself. As well as longtime members of his touring band –
Steve Cradock, Andy Crofts, Ben Gordelier, Steve Pilgrim – it
features a surprise appearance from Weller’s old Woking pal
Steve Brookes, who played guitar.
MODFATHER RETURNS
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