Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of the Music on Film - Film on Music International Film Festival and Music on Film o.s, we regret to inform you that MOFFOM will not continue in the year 2009. It has been a tough decision to make and we have explored many options to save the festival. However, we have concluded that there is no realistic way to do it.

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Interview with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto on their new project: “The Ship Of Fools”

When did you first discover the novel by Sebastian Brant?
Danielle: I was reading the book “Madness and Civilization” by Michel Foucault in 2007 in which he mentions “The Ship Of Fools” quite often – I decided to read it too and was struck by the very first paragraph:
“All lands in Holy Writ abound
And works to save the soul are found,
The bible, Holy Fathers lore
And other such in goodly store,
So many that I feel surprise
To find men growing not more wise
But holding writ and lore in spite.
The whole world lives in darksome night“
I could not believe that a book written in 1494 could be so contemp...

Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who

A skinny, arty guitarist with an appetite for destruction. A mic-twirling singer who liked a fight. A bearish, sardonic bassist. Chaos personified on drums. Four west London lads who somehow coalesced into The Who. Packed with electric live footage and expansive commentary from Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, this is a comprehensive portrait of one of rock's greatest and loudest bands, from post-World War II childhood through mod hits and rock operas, epic excesses and internal battles, the deaths of Keith Moon and John Entwistle, and the recent return to action of Daltrey and Townshend - sometime antagonists and fiercely loyal friends who, far from dying before they got old, have aged as gracefully as anyone in their generation.

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