"Fatih Akin records the sounds of a mad metropolis
As the final film in a series, the Club Social cine-club screens 'Crossing the Bridge,' a documentary on the music scene in Istanbul
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Daily Star staff
Friday, July 27, 2007
Fatih Akin records the sounds of a mad metropolis
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BEIRUT: Performance films and music-driven documentaries shape a curious subset in cinematic history. Though they are better than musicals and drippy teenage melodramas that exist solely to support Top 40 soundtracks, longer and more engaging than even the most brilliant three- to four-minute music videos and altogether more fun than straightforward social documentaries, they rarely cross-over into mainstream movie theaters. What better way to screen them, then, than in a club that would be playing music anyway."
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