If you’re one of the biggest, or at least still-most-buzzed-about bands on the planet, how do you help a filmmaking brother out? Well for one, you put aside constant collaborations with Spike Jonze (who shot a short film with the group, something in Austin, Texas earlier this year) and tap a filmmaker in need of a little love: Terry Gilliam.
Arcade Fire, whose upcoming album, The Suburbs recently leaked, have hired the “Twelve Monkeys” director to helm a livecast from the group’s New York City’s Madison Square Garden show next month.
The Montreal rockers have shown their love for Gilliam before and recorded a version of the “Brazil” theme — Portuguese musician Ary Barroso’s “Aquarela do Brasil” — during the period between their debut album and their sophomore effort Neon Bible on the “Cold Wind” EP (their version is below).
Gilliam’s misfortunes have been well-documented in recent years, so we won’t rehash them here, but maybe, just maybe, this move with such a high-profile group will convince any vacillating investors that they should dump money into his trying-to-find-funding “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”? We can only hope as this is a huge gig and one of the biggest shows Arcade Fire have ever played.
The Arcade Fire livestream takes place on August 5 at 10 PM EST. Clowns and midgets may not be included. [Variety]
Arcade Fire- “Aquarela do Brasil”
Brazilian. Ary Barroso was brazilian. Portuguese is the language.
This is so fucking weird, but you are right that Berg has talent (more often than not) for bringing out good performances.