BFI intro to this 35mm screening, the opening night of the Weimar season at BFI Southbank:
A hapless politician (comic genius Schünzel) leads a double life – publicly attacking the depravity of Berlin nightlife while secretly running ‘Heaven on Earth’, a notorious nightclub. This delicious distillation of the contemporary debate around moral degeneracy features raunchy chorus girls, a black jazz band, and a cross-dressing scene that anticipates Some Like It Hot by several decades.
Background to live score for tonight's film:
Helen Noir is a London-based musician and composer. A classically-trained soprano and accomplished producer, she has written original scores for live performance for a number of films, including Alla Nazimova’s Salome and Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness. Helen’s live scores respond to picture in unique and compelling ways, referencing disco, opera, jazz or chanson, and incorporating choral loops, reverb-drenched guitar or techno bass-lines.
Helen Noir is a London-based musician and composer. A classically-trained soprano and accomplished producer, she has written original scores for live performance for a number of films, including Alla Nazimova’s Salome and Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness. Helen’s live scores respond to picture in unique and compelling ways, referencing disco, opera, jazz or chanson, and incorporating choral loops, reverb-drenched guitar or techno bass-lines.
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