We all have been only
familiar with the modern system of film exhibition. Watching the film on big
screens with the state-of-the-art technical support is what we usually
experience. But had never experienced and enjoyed the style were instead of
Dolby digital surrounding live orchestra plays the music and the background
scores. Thus leashing out new and varied quality of music and totally enhancing the audio filling in your ears. This method of screening was lost in the course of time and
modernization of the industry. This year’s International Film Festival of
Kerala brings back this conventional style of screening for its audience with
the inaugural film ‘The Ring’, thus making the first screening a new and
unmatched visual treat for all.
Suspense Master
Alfred Hitchcock is to be paid tribute, with the 17th IFFK
commences with his film, The Ring, first released in 1927. Screening of this
silent film will be accompanied by a live orchestral performance of a new
score, created by British Jazz sensation Soweto Kinch and his orchestra. The
venue, Nishagandhi, will be themed upon the old theatrical style of 1920s.
The screening of The
Ring, treated to be the ‘Incredibly Seductive’ film maker’s best silent film, is
its Indian premier. The significance of the show is that it coincides with the
75th anniversary of the release of ‘Balan,’ the first silent film in Malayalam.
The live musical
accompaniment for a Hitchcock film in India is for the first time. The 116
minutes live orchestra seated facing the screen during the screening will be
lead by Jazz music wizard Soweto Kinch and his six musicians. The same team of
musicians did the live score, when it was screened in the same manner in
Britain earlier this year.
The famous musicians Paul Booth, Richard Henry, Robert Mitchell, Shaney
Forbes, Jay Phelps and Karl Oloniluyi-Abel will be accompanying Soweto Kicnh.
The team is arriving in Kerala on a four day schedule exclusively for the
inaugural show.
‘The Ring’ revolves around, Jack “One Round” Sander , his
girlfriend Mabel, and his boxing rival Bobo Corby thus creating a love triangle
and a fiery boxing match thus forming a ‘ring’ (hence the name). The
film has also an importance of being Alfred Hitchcock’s only original
screenplay. The title symbolically represents the boxing ring, wedding ring and
the bracelet. Hitchcock uses symbolism to an unusually large degree. The lead
characters were enacted by Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter,
Forrester Harvey and Gordon Harker.
The film, being the
forth one of Hitchcock, was restored by British Film Institute National Archive
(BFI) and is a part of BFI’s wider project, The Genius of Hitchcock. The
restoration work was performed on what was nearly a ‘lost film’. The film was
produced by John Maxwell for the British International Pictures in 35 mm film
and its maiden release was on first October 1927 in UK.
The modern format of
film exhibition replaced by the traditional live-play style using the most
modern technology will result in the nostalgic and unforgettable memory for
each film admirers.
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