Paducah's Maiden Alley Cinema is featuring a pair of music-related movies over the next two weekends: Once writer-director John Carney’s 1985-set Sing Street and Don Cheadle’s directorial debut Miles Ahead, in which he stars as the late jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis. John Null caught up with MAC's film programming director John Holt to discuss the coming attractions.
Sing Street stars newcomers FerdiaWalsh-Peelo and Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor (Macbeth), Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Commitments, Downton Abbey) and Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire). It's set in 1985 Dublin and is about a teenager who decides to become a musician in order to impress an older girl. The soundtrack features The Cure, The Jam, Hall and Oates, Duran Duran and several original songs performed by the band in the movie. Sing Street starts Friday, June 24 and plays through Tuesday, June 28.
Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, the Iron Man series) is the writer, director and star of Miles Ahead, which focuses on Miles Davis in the late 1970s. Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Star Wars) co-stars as a Rolling Stone reporter who tags along with Davis as he tries to recover a stolen recording and reminisces on his past. Cheadle crowdfunded the movie through Indiegogo. Miles Ahead is showing Friday, July 1 through Tuesday, July 5.
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