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Sat Nov 30: 4:30, 6:45 & 9
December 1 at 2, 4:15 & 9pm
Murray Lerner, USA, 2001; 102m
This November, to mark what would have been the 60th birthday of Jimi Hendrix, we will pay tribute with Murray Lerner's film about Jimi Hendrix's 1970 performance at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Janie Hendrix and Murray Lerner will be here to introduce the 6:45pm and 9pm
screenings of BLUE WILD ANGEL on Saturday, November 30. Murray Lerner will do a Q & A
following the 9pm with Film Society Program Director Richard Peña.
Jimi Hendrix's Isle of Wight appearance has always been presented on film in piecemeal form - heavily edited, with the numbers re-arranged and often truncated. Filmmaker Murray Lerner went back to his original footage, re-mastered the sound, and has now given us something wondrous to behold: a film experience that has the momentum and excitement of a real concert. The hour-and-twenty-minute set builds slowly, and by the time Hendrix and his trio (Billy Cox on bass, Mitch Mitchell on drums) get to "Red House" and "Machine Gun," they're soaring through the heavens, and taking us along for the ride. Hendrix was a monumental, one-of-a-kind artist, and he was at the peak of his form here, tragically, only a mere 18 days before his death.
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