Music
06 Mar 14

Slint Documentary To Screen At IFI

Part of the ‘Rock ’n’ Roll season’

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Season at the IFI is in full swing,

With it comes a chance to see the brilliant new Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail. Lance Bangs’ excellent documentary tells the story of Louisville, Kentucky band Slint’s now massively influential, but at the time utterly ignored, 1991 album Spiderland. The documentary traces the development of the group, using amazing archive footage of its precursors, Squirrel Bait and Maurice, as well as of rehearsals of the nascent Spiderland, tracks, to build up to the story of the recording and release of one of the finest albums of the last 30 years.

This special IFI screening will feature a live Q&A with the director Lance Bangs and takes place on the March 26 at 20.30.

Also part of the IFI’s Rock ’n’ Roll season are such delights as Don’t Look Back The D.A. Pennebaker film that follows Bob Dylan’s 1965 solo tour of England, two months before he plugged in his guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, and The Harder They Come Perry Henzell’s raw, reggae epic that was based on real events which reflected the way many artists were treated when making music in Jamaica in the 1970s.

Tickets are available for all these now so book online here

The full list of films is available at [link]ifi.ie/whatson/season/[/link]

You can watch the Breadcrumb Trail er (ha) below.