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THE DAY
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LISTEN UP
Music itself is
explored in this
month’s TV picks.
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Perfect duo:
MOVIE MELODIES
AND TV TUNES
“Sound and music are 50 per cent of the
entertainment in a movie.” — George Lucas
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MOVIES WITH MELODY
Get ready for a real treat on board this month, with a collection of great
films featuring, and about, music.
Words Erin Free / FilmInk
THE STUNNING Whiplash not only
announces a new star in writer and director
Damian Chazelle, but also puts a new
spin on the music movie, with its bold
story about a young drumming student,
Andrew Nieman (Miles Teller, above) whose
ambition brings him to a bullying and
aggressive teacher (Golden Globe winner,
JK Simmons), leading to a sweat-soaked,
blood-stained battle of wills.
“The idea was to shoot these music
scenes as though they were action scenes
and to shoot a concert as though it were
a bank robbery,” says Chazelle. “The
challenge is unlike dance or action
movies, because when you’re sitting
playing instruments everyone stays in
one place. It’s really the music and
camera that provide the action.”
Chazelle’s own musical background
informed much of Whiplash. “I’m a drummer
myself,” he says. “A lot of stuff in the movie
was based on my own experiences. The
script was a way of exorcising those
demons. My band leader wasn’t quite
as abusive, but there was a lot of the
subtler stuff like rotating different
drummers, or having the band watch
while you start and stop something for
an hour. That stuff happened routinely,
and it leaves a mark on you. The film
came from my experience of that, and
how music felt like life and death.”
The music in Begin Again is
of a far sweeter kind. Warm, moving,
passionate and with something to say,
Begin Again is a delightful paean to
the power of rhythm and melody, but
still retains a grit and earthiness. Keira
Knightley’s struggling songstress
finds inspiration on the streets of New York
and in the process changes the life of Mark
Ruffalo’s deeply depressed character,
a past-his-prime record executive.
“I wanted to see if music could
actually make you turn back from suicide,”
director John Carney says. “And then,
metaphorically, could music improve
your life and change it in an actual sense,
in a daily sense?”
There are other flicks on board this
month embracing the beauty of song. The
2006 cult classic Once tracks the musical
bond that forms between two poetic souls,
while the 1980s-set metal musical Rock
of Ages boasts big hair, big tunes and Tom
Cruise in an eye-popping performance.
The biopic Walk the Line offers careerbest work from Joaquin Phoenix as music
icon Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon
as June Carter, while 20,000 Days on
Earth paints an unconventional portrait
of Aussie goth rock hero, Nick Cave.
SMALL-SCREEN
SONGS
Keep an eye (and ear) out for
music-themed TV, too.
The tunes continue on the small
screen with a selection of musicthemed television shows. There’s the
music travelogue Foo Fighters: Sonic
Highways, which sees Dave Grohl
and co visit America’s most famous
recording locations. There’s also
a number of performance specials such
as Tony Bennett’s New York, Coldplay:
Ghost Stories Live, One Direction: The
Inside Story and Paul Simon: Live At
Webster Hall, New York, as well as
documentaries 5 Seconds of Summer:
Up Close and Personal, When Björk
Met Attenborough and My Music Brain.
20,000 emotions
“Music creates an emotional
connection with you,” says 20,000
Days on Earth’s co-director
Jane Pollard of the film’s quietly
mesmerising power that draws
viewers into the world of Australian
rock icon Nick Cave.
STEP UP TO THE MIC
After a positive meeting, Begin Again director John Carney had one important question for
his potential leading lady, Keira Knightley: can you hold a tune? “I said that if she could do that,
then we could make it work, because she doesn’t have to be a big singer,” Carney says. “It was
never a Judy Garland thing. Her character Gretta is not a belter, she’s smooth and delicate. Keira
indicated she could do that. She was right, and it worked. She took a few lessons, and had a
voice coach training her a little bit, which was great.”
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MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
Movies and music go hand-in-hand this month with our tuneful film picks as well as
a selection of recent releases including Gone Girl and One Direction: The Inside Story.
The Hangover
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A booze-soaked triple shot
of bad behaviour.
he hilarious tale of three bleary-eyed, memory-scattered
buddies — the cocky Phil (Bradley Cooper), oddball
Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and put-upon everyman Stu
(Ed Helms) — stumbling around Las Vegas while trying to
figure out what happened the night before, rates as a true
modern comedy classic. The modestly budgeted 2009 comedy
grossed more than US$460 million worldwide and helped
forge Hollywood careers for its stars. Informed by the in-yourface comedy stylings of director Todd Phillips (Road Trip,
Starsky & Hutch, Old School), as well as a tight script and a
host of brilliant performances, The Hangover is comic gold.
And where there’s gold, there’s sequels, with the whole crew
returning for the equally riotous, Bangkok-set The Hangover
Part II and final instalment The Hangover Part III, which saw
the Wolfpack return to Las Vegas. Equal parts absurd and
funny, the trilogy’s creative premise combines likeable
characters and zingy one-liners, and unveils the camaraderie
in male friendships that isn’t often explored in film. Phil’s
devil-may-care attitude, Stu’s world-weariness and Alan’s
delight at being included reveal the different personalities
that can come together to create male bonding. From Mike
Tyson singing Phil Collins to a tiger on the loose, a too-cute
lost baby, face tattoos and severed fingers, The Hangover
offers comic mayhem and a riot of a time on board this month.
OUR BOXSET MOVIE PICKS
The Hangover (2009)
COMEDY Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper,
Ed Helms. 01:40 MA15+
Doug and his three buddies drive to Vegas
for a final blowout two days before his
wedding. Waking up the next morning with
no memory of what happened and with the
groom missing, the trio retrace their evening
to try to find Doug. Rated 7.8 out of 10 on IMDb.
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The Hangover Part II (2011)
COMEDY Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper,
Ed Helms. 01:42 MA15+
Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to Thailand
for Stu’s wedding. Stu is determined that his
bachelor party will be a subdued affair. But
his pre-wedding brunch escalates and the
foursome find themselves in hot water once
again. Rated 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb.
G General
PG Parental guidance recommended
M Recommended for mature audiences
The Hangover Part III
(2013)
COMEDY Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper,
Ed Helms. 01:40 MA15+
When Doug is kidnapped by a mob of
gangsters, the guys must track down prison
escapee Mr Chow, who is on the run from the
mob, to exchange him for Doug’s safe return.
Rated 5.9 out of 10 on IMDb.
MA15+ Not suitable for people aged under 15
NR Not Rated
Closed Captions available
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MUSIC IN MOVIES
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Whiplash
DRAMA Miles Teller, JK
Simmons, Melissa Benoist. 01:46
MA15+
Promising young jazz drummer
Andrew Nieman is mentored at
a cutthroat music conservatory
by an instructor who will stop at
nothing to realise his students’
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teacher relationship becomes
Once
COMEDY Keira Knightley, Mark
increasingly hostile and volatile, DRAMA Glen Hansard, Markéta
Ruffalo, Adam Levine. 01:44 M
testing the limits of Andrew’s
Irglová, Hugh Walsh. 01:24 M
When her rock-star boyfriend
ambition and determination.
An Irish busker (and vacuum
hits the big time, a young
cleaner salesman) in Dublin
British singer accompanies
who dreams of breaking through
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him to Manhattan to try and
in London meets an enigmatic
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make her dreams a reality
Czech girl whose musical ability
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as well. Her journey takes an
gels with his own. Together they
unexpected turn after a chance
write, rehearse and record songs
encounter with a disgraced
that reflect the fact they are falling
record label executive. Together
in love, but she is hiding
the two outsiders combine
a devastating secret. Hansard
their talents and a promising
and Irglová also composed and
collaboration soon develops, that
performed all of the featured
might just make them stars.
music in the film (and fell in love).
OUR FAVOURITE MOVIE PICKS
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
DRAMA Ben Affleck, Rosamund
Pike, Tyler Perry. 02:29 MA15+
On the morning of their fifth
wedding anniversary, Nick
Dunne reports that his beautiful
wife, Amy, has gone missing.
Trapped in the media spotlight,
Nick’s strange behaviour leads
the police to ask the question:
did he kill his wife, and was their
seemingly perfect marriage all
just a facade? You won’t guess
where this is going.
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DRAMA Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene
Russo, Bill Paxton. 01:57 MA15+
An amoral petty thief, Lou
Bloom, stumbles into a career
as a crime videographer, selling
his captured vision of events
to commercial news services.
Trolling the lethal nocturnal
underbelly of Los Angeles, he
soon discovers what it’s going
to take for him to establish
himself, and begins singlemindedly pursuing his goal.
Nick Cave: 20,000
Days on Earth
DRAMA Nick Cave, Susie Bick,
Warren Ellis. 01:37 MA15+
Part drama and part documentary,
20,000 Days on Earth portrays
a fictitious 24 hours in the life of
Australian music legend, author
and screenwriter Nick Cave as
he marks his 20,000th day of life.
This one-of-a-kind film premiered
at the 2014 Sundance Film
Festival, with the creative portrait
taking home two awards, and had
the honour of opening the 2014
Sydney Film Festival.
Young Ones
Pride
COMEDY Bill Nighy, Imelda
Staunton, Dominic West. 02:00 M
In the summer of 1984, thousands
of British mine workers lose their
jobs. The layoffs deeply impact
a tiny mining village in Wales,
but help comes from an
unexpected source when
a London-based group of gay and
lesbian activists arrives to make
a donation in person. The two
groups eventually stand together
to defy government oppression.
DRAMA Elle Fanning, Nicholas
Hoult, Michael Shannon. 01:40 M
In a future where the Earth has
experienced a worldwide drought
and water has become the most
precious resource, disparate
groups of hardened survivors
live on in the American West.
Trust is a rare commodity and
when an outsider makes inroads
with a tight little clan, their
established order of existence
is turned upside down.
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FLICKERFEST
Tony Bennett’s
New York
TV | VARIETY 01:21 G
Music legend Tony Bennett
has an undying love for his
hometown of New York City. This
documentary features Bennett
answering questions about his
life and career and taking in the
sights of the city, intercut with
concert footage of him wowing
an audience in Atlantic City.
Catch Comedy and Award
Winners from short film
competition Flickerfest on board
this month (including Lois,
starring Jacki Weaver, pictured),
as well as a selection of shorts
from FlickerKids for the child in
all of us. Check out Australian
tours dates and venues:
www.flickerfest.com.au/tour.
Julian
FLICKERFEST 00:07 M
Set in a year four classroom
in 1981, Julian explores a day in
the life of the then-nine-year-old
WikiLeaks founder. Assange’s
need to do what he thinks is right
gets him in trouble with a bully
and an indifferent principal.
Coldplay: Ghost
Stories
TV | VARIETY 00:52 M
Coldplay perform their highly
anticipated album Ghost Stories.
Guy Berryman talks about the riff
for ‘Magic’ and Will Champion
talks about the band’s chemistry.
Chris Martin explains the personal
lyrics, while Jonny Buckland
tells us about the lead-up to the
release of the album.
5 Seconds of Summer:
Up Close and Personal
TV | VARIETY 01:05 G
Australian pop-rock group
5 Seconds of Summer are taking
the world by storm after the
release of their self-titled debut
album in mid-2014 and touring
with One Direction. This doco
follows the band as they prepare
for a world tour in 2015.
Celestial Avenue
One Direction: The
Inside Story
TV | VARIETY 01:00 PG
The biggest boy band on the
planet depart for the American
leg of their Where We Are tour
— one of their highest grossing
to date. Follow the group’s
journey as they continue their
unstoppable assault on the
pop-music industry, leaving
a trail of screaming young girl
fans in their wake.
FLICKERFEST 00:20 M
In this offbeat cross-cultural
comedy, Kath has been looking
for love in all the wrong places.
Then, when she’s in the middle
of an unsuccessful blind date
in Chinatown, her attention is
captured by the soulful singing
of kitchenhand Ah Gong.
FLICKERKIDS
The Gallant Captain
TV | FLICKERKIDS 00:08 G
When Will discovers a box of
his father’s memories, he
embarks on a fantastic seafaring
voyage with his trusty first mate
Cat. Faced with certain peril,
Will must learn how to be brave.
Barbouillageville
TV | FLICKERKIDS 00:07 G
Barbouillageville is a serene
European town, serene, that
is, until two rival painters —
one blue, one yellow — find
themselves in a bitter battle that
rapidly gets out of hand.
Want more?
There are many more movies available — explore and take your pick. We also
have a huge selection of games on our Red Seatback Platform.
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TV HIGHLIGHTS
Tune in to TV shows matched with music on board this month,
as well as Emmy winners Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory.
Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways
VARIETY 01:00 M
tribute to the history of American music, the series
follows one of the biggest rock bands in the world, the
Foo Fighters, as they travel to eight cities that have
been landmarks in the industry. Along the way the band record
their eighth studio album, one song in each city at a legendary
recording studio. The concept of the show was dreamed up after
the enormous success of frontman Dave Grohl’s documentary
Sound City, in which he explored the colourful past of the historic
Sound City recording studio in Los Angeles. The series is notable
for Grohl’s deep interest in music history, in addition to interviews
with artists who have recorded in the profiled studios, including
Dolly Parton, Paul Stanley from Kiss and Joe Walsh of the Eagles.
The Foo Fighters visited studios in Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Los
Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Washington DC and New York.
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OUR FAVOURITE TV SHOWS
My Music Brain
Spicks and Specks
When Björk Met
Attenborough
Mysteries of the
Human Voice
Paul Simon: Live
at Webster Hall
New York
Glee
VARIETY 00:48 PG
Rock star Sting takes part in
a series of fascinating experiments
to discover what happens in the
brain when it processes and reacts
to music, stirring up emotions,
memories and passions.
VARIETY 00:48 PG
In this remarkable documentary,
musician Björk and naturalist Sir
David Attenborough explore our
relationship with music and how
it exists in the natural world.
VARIETY 00:55 PG
Paul Simon is captured live in
concert in a rare club appearance,
performing classic songs and
music from his new album.
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G General
PG Parental guidance recommended
M Recommended for mature audiences
VARIETY 0:27 PG
Josh Earl, Ella Hooper and Adam
Richard are joined by a variety of
guests in this musical quiz show.
They include comedian Tom
Ballard and musicians Dan Sultan
and Kate Miller-Heidke.
VARIETY 00:48 PG
Not even the most advanced
computer synthesisers and talking
robots ever devised can begin
to reproduce the extraordinary
complexity of the human voice.
COMEDY 00:44 PG
As Beatlemania continues at
McKinley High, it’s time for the
students to vote for prom queen
and king. When Tina is nominated,
she adopts a fierce attitude that
alienates her biggest supporters.
MA15+ Not suitable for people aged under 15
NR Not Rated
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MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS
An abundance of artists, including the Foo Fighters and Eagles, tour
down under this month — check out some of their greatest hits on board.
The Veronicas
The Veronicas
he Veronicas — twins Jessica and Lisa Origliasso —
burst onto the Australian music scene in 2005 with
the release of their debut album The Secret Life of...
which reached four times platinum certification with more
than 280,000 sales. Singles such as ‘4ever’, ‘Everything
I’m Not’ and ‘When It All Falls Apart’ helped score them
a slew of fans both in Australia and internationally. They
followed their initial success in style with their second
album, Hook Me Up, which featured hits including ‘Hook Me
Up’ and ‘Untouched’, the latter reaching platinum status.
The Veronicas then took some time off to work on individual
projects. They reunited to release ‘Lolita’ in 2012 but, due
to issues with their record label, their highly anticipated
third album wasn’t released until 2014. The Veronicas came
out in November and featured collaborations with Butch
Vig, Daniel Johns and Nellee Hooper, and peaked at number
two on the ARIA charts. They tour the country this month.
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Foo Fighters
Paul Simon
Sting
Eagles
Sonic Highways
Before you catch the Foo
Fighters on their Australian tour
this month, check out their latest
album, recorded at eight historic
studios across America. Expect
songs such as the first single
‘Something from Nothing’ to
become instant classics.
Over The Bridge of Time: A Paul
Simon Retrospective (1964–2011)
Spans Paul Simon’s career, from
his time in Simon and Garfunkel
with ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’
and ‘The Only Living Boy in New
York’ to his solo work, including
‘You Can Call Me Al’ from
Graceland and ‘Spirit Voices’.
The Complete Greatest Hits
Reacquaint yourself with
the greatest hits from one of
America’s most enduring bands.
The Eagles’ impressive back
catalogue, including tunes
such as ‘Take It Easy’, ‘Witchy
Woman’ and ‘Best of My Love’, is
showcased on this album.
The Very Best of
Sting & The Police
Sting skyrocketed to fame in the
late 1970s in British post-punk
rock band The Police. Their
greatest hits, as well as Sting’s
solo tunes, are featured on this
album, plus you can catch Sting
on tour with Paul Simon.
Les recommends...
What do Begin Again, Once, 20,000 Days on Earth, My Music Brain, Glee and Paul Simon: Live at
Webster Hall New York have in common? They are all movies and TV shows rich with music and all
on board this month. And the music doesn’t stop there. Touring in February are The Veronicas,
the Foo Fighters (look for Sonic Highways, documenting the eight-city recording odyssey
that produced their eighth and latest studio album), the Eagles and Sting and
Paul Simon on the road together as part of their world tour.
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there are plenty more options available so take your pick, sit back and enjoy.
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CNET
WATCH | TV
Technology news,
product reviews.
Sheppard
LISTEN | ALBUM
Features smash-hit
single Geronimo.
Mysteries of
the Human
Voice
WATCH | TV
Our voice is the mirror
of our soul.
YouTube —
Sorted Food
WATCH | TV
Re-create every dish
from this channel.
WATCH | MOVIE
Single mum, flying
solo, meets dweeb.
The Fault in
Our Stars
WATCH | MOVIE
A love story with
real heart.
Australian
Chamber
Orchestra
WATCH | TV
ACO’s 40th year.
Better Homes
and Gardens
WATCH | TV
Improve your indoors
and outdoors.
Youtube —
Vsauce2
WATCH | TV
Build it! Draw it! Play it!
Taylor Swift
LISTEN | ALBUM
Shake it Off!
New playlist feature on Wireless In-Flight Entertainment
This is Where
I Leave You
WATCH | MOVIE
Welcome home.
Get uncomfortable.
Walk the
Line
WATCH | MOVIE
Love is a burning thing.
The Rover
WATCH | MOVIE
Fear the man with
nothing left to lose.
A Walk
Among the
Tombstones
WATCH | MOVIE
People are afraid of all
the wrong things.
Vance Joy
LISTEN | ALBUM
The debut album from
the man behind 'Riptide'.
Arrow
WATCH | TV
Savagery is
a family trait.
The Big Bang
Theory
WATCH | TV
It all started with
a bang.
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and Pacific Island flights, a limited number of portable IFE devices
may be available for hire by Guests travelling on Saver and Saver
Lite fares. Guests travelling on a Saver or Saver Lite fare who hire
a portable IFE device will be charged $15 NZD/AUD that may be paid
using a credit card or cash on board. 8. Portable IFE devices are not
available to guests travelling on Flexi, Saver or Saver Lite fares on
Australian domestic flights or flights to/from Denpasar, Phuket,
Honiara and Port Moresby. 9. Virgin Australia’s IFE programming
schedules are subject to change at any time without notice and
content may not always match the content listed in the Voyeur
magazine. 10. Virgin Australia has carefully selected the channels
and programmes to ensure a wide variety of program choices.
However, Virgin Australia does not have the ability to censor
programming and accepts no responsibility for any footage shown
on IFE programming which may be offensive or distressing to any
Guest. 11. The responsibility of appropriate viewing for minors rests
solely with the parent or guardian of the minor. 12. Virgin Australia is
not responsible for any interruptions to the service including, without
limitation, those due to acts of nature, power failure, satellite signal
failure or any other cause. 13. Virgin Australia is not responsible if IFE
is not available on a flight due to a technical fault or serviceability
issues. 14. Where Wireless IFE is available and the Guest’s own
personal device is used, Virgin Australia is not responsible for battery
life or charging of devices. It is the responsibility of the Guest to
ensure that the appropriate IFE application or software has been
downloaded on the device and that the activation process is complete
prior to boarding the aircraft. Virgin Australia is not responsible if a
Guest’s device is unable to connect to the Wireless IFE system. 15. i.
Guests must not share their device with other guests.
ii. Content on our IFE system is made for single person viewing only.
iii. Guests are in control of their own devices and should shut their
devices down if they find any content made available on the IFE to be
unacceptable. 16. Guests must comply with any crew instructions to
shut down their device in circumstances reasonably required by
Virgin Australia.
FEBRUARY 2015