This exciting BAMcinématek Film Series in NYC showcases one of the all time great directors (and my personal favorite) John Carpenter. His fiercely independent approach to films is uncanny - often writing, directing, scoring and editing his own movies.
John Carpenter’s work has been incredibly influential on me. Most notably in Kids Go To The Woods… Kids Get Dead and Kids Get Dead 2: The Kids Get Deader functioning in part as a tribute and homage to Carpenter’s Halloween series.
Our VHS copies of his masterpiece They Live were continually worn out growing up. Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From NY, The Thing, In The Mouth of Madness - the list just goes on and on…
Carpenter’s soundtracks are also legendary. On February 3rd his latest album Lost Themes (available on Sacred Bones Records) will be released, featuring all new musical scores.
From the Sacred Bones website:
From the Sacred Bones website:
John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre’s most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies he’s both directed and scored. The themes can instantly flood his fans’ musical memory with imagery of a menacing shape stalking a babysitter, a relentless wall of ghost-filled fog, lightning-fisted kung fu fighters, or a mirror holding the gateway to hell. The all-new music on Lost Themes asks Carpenter’s acolytes to visualize their own nightmares.
“They’re little moments of score from movies made in our imaginations,” Carpenter says.“Now I hope it inspires people to create films that could be scored with this music.”
February is without a doubt John Carpenter Month. Hope to see you at some of the screenings!
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-Mike
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