The Cardiff club scene in the 90's: five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a weekend. Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he's impotent. Lulu, Jip's mate, doesn't find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy. The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behavior. Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy-induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend's aftermath. It's breakthrough time for at least three of them.
Director: Justin Kerrigan Writer: Justin Kerrigan (written by) Release Date: 12 May 2000 Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music Tagline: The Weekend has Landed! Plot: Five friends spend one lost weekend in a mix of music, love and club culture.
On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. Meet David Turner, a Midwest transplant. He moved to the city with aspirations of starting his career as a writer but his hopes have stalled. After four years he finds himself writing instruction manuals for a computer company. Overworked and with little social life, David spends his time alone, his dream of being a novelist a distant memory. That night, his brother Colin Turner invites him to GROOVE. Colin has a surprise for his new girlfriend, young raver sprite Harmony Stitts, and he wants David there. David reluctantly agrees and is shocked when Colin proposes to Harmony at the party. In the ensuing celebration, they take Ecstasy and suddenly, David is thrust into the world of the San Francisco underground. In a chance encounter, David meets longtime New York raver Leyla Heydel and makes an unlikely connection. Through their budding relationship, they're reminded of a sense of possibility and freedom in their lives they had all but forgotten. But as the party rages on, Colin reveals a deep secret, one that threatens to destroy his relationship with Harmony. When the sun rises the party disappears, and the chaos of the last twelve hours changes the two brothers forever.
Director: Greg Harrison Writer: Greg Harrison (writer) Release Date: 19 October 2000 (Germany) more Genre: Drama | Music Tagline: are you feeling it? Plot: An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
The documentary film "Feiern" presents people whose nights don't stop for 72 hours. Their stories are about tenderness, excess, and self-destruction. About the search for happiness and the fear of being alone. The portrait in 19 conversations, 56 nights, and 13 tracks.
"Feiern" shows them getting down - sweaty, dazed, deliriously happy. People who dedicate their lives to music, clubs and drugs talk about their experiences.They tell stories of self-destruction as well as tenderness. And every one of them is about the search for happiness: about that perfect moment of collective ecstasy, about the right record being played at the right time, about talking for eight hours to a complete stranger, who you adopt as your best friend - for the night. Or about how it feels to walk into a darkroom and become "a mere piece of meat, to be used and use others". The conversations add up to the portrait of a family and make "Feiern" the melancholic homage to a subculture that continues to celebrate until, finally, a simple cough turns into pneumonia, and a blackout leads to psychosis. In Berlin, says Ewan Pearson, a DJ and producer from London, somebody could bang a wooden spoon on a saucepan - as long as you did it in time, nobody would go home. With a smile he advises his friends: "Don't forget to go home!". They might not. And rave on happily ever after.
Label: Ninja Tune Catalog#: ZENDVS 155 Format: DVD, Single, PAL Country: UK Released: 2004 Genre: Electronic Style: Breaks Rating: 4.60/5 (5 votes) Rate It
Tracklisting: Video1. Salvador Featuring - Organic Audio Video2. Living Stereo Video3. Living Stereo (Eclectic Method AV Remix) Audio1. Salvador (Seiji's Bugz In The Attic Remix)
1.- Robyn - With Every Heartbeat 2.- Axwell - I Found You 3.- Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness 4.- Global Deejays Feat. Technotronic - Get Up 5.- Samim - Heather 6.- The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance 7.- Camille Jones - The Creeps (FLG Remix) 8.- Armin Van Buuren - The Sound Of Goodbye (Simon & Shaker Mix) 9.- Bob Sinclar - Sound Of Freedom 10.- Ferry Corsten - Maybe, Maybe Not 12.- Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
quality: DVD5 untouched video: PAL 16:9 audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 & Dolby Digital 2.0 language: English titles: Czech & English web: http://www.itsallgonepetetong.com
Shot in a mocumentary style reminiscent of THIS IS SPINAL TAP, director Michael Dowse's IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG is a funny, touching tale of a DJ who loses his hearing. The title refers to a hugely popular DJ from the UK, who briefly features in the film, and also fulfills the role of executive producer. "It's all gone Pete Tong" derives from Cockney rhyming slang--a popular UK method for inventing phrases by finding unusual words that rhyme--and when used, means that "it's all gone wrong." Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) is the hearing-impaired DJ who delights the clubbers on the island of Ibiza by coupling his larger-than-life drug and alcohol-fueled persona with undeniable skills behind the turntables. But as Frankie's hearing rapidly disintegrates, and his former manager, wife, friends, and record label slowly fade away, the distraught DJ plunges into the depths of despair. After Frankie hits rock bottom, Dowse steers his film into calmer waters, with the fallen star kicking the drugs, and concentrating on rehabilitation. While the events unfold around the fictional character of Frankie, many real-life DJ's appear in the film, giving it a comedic edge as luminaries such as Carl Cox, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyke, Lol Hammond, and others muse on Frankie's rise and fall in the cutthroat world of dance music. But it's Paul Kaye's performance that really gives the film its heart and soul. Infusing his character with a passionate likeability that shines through even when Frankie's behavior plummets to new lows, Kaye conjures up just the right amount of pathos to stop the film from teetering over into corny sentimentalism, making his portrayal a supremely convincing depiction of a star caught in the terrifying throes of a career-ending condition. [trailer]
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