DJ and composer David Holmes has curated a fascinating programme of the movies that most inspired and influenced him. The season, Holy Pictures, opens at Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast tonight with Daisies(1966), a surrealist Czech comedy of two zany teen girls devising destructive pranks.
The enticingly eclectic line-up continues tomorrow with John Schlesinger's admirable, Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy(1969), featuring one of John Barry's finest scores, and on Sunday with the powerful Battle of Algiers(1966), for which director Gillo Pontecorvo collaborated on the music with Ennio Morricone.
Holmes himself, working with Steve Hilton as the Free Association, provides the atmospheric score for Monday's movie, Michael Winterbottom's Code 46(2003). Showing on Tuesday is Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers(1979), observing New York gang sub-culture of the early 1960s to a terrific period soundtrack that includes Dion, Smokey Robinson, the Shirelles and The Four Seasons.
Wednesday's film is a lost French New Wave classic, Moshé Mizrahi's Les Stances à Sophie(1971), renowned for its dynamic soundtrack from the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago. Concluding the season on Thursday is former film critic Chris Petit's Radio On(1980), an existential English road movie driven by a soundtrack featuring David Bowie, Ian Dury and Kraftwerk. www.queensfilmtheatre.com