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Demme, Young Doing Rock Doc
Something wild's going down in Music City USA.
Paramount Classics has announced it will distribute an upcoming concert film directed by Jonathan Demme that will capture Canadian rocker Neil Young's upcoming two-night stand in Nashville, Tennessee, Daily Variety reports.
The doc, titled Prairie Wind, will be shot on Aug. 18 and 19 at the city's Ryman Auditorium and will showcase a batch of new tunes from Young's forthcoming album of the same name, due out on Reprise Records Sept. 27.
According to the trade, the studio's indie division agreed to acquire the movie based on Demme and Young's track records without hearing any of the songs.
Demme, who won a Best Director Oscar for 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, is no stranger to concert films having helmed perhaps the greatest in the genre, 1984's Stop Making Sense, which chronicled the Talking Heads' legendary rock and roll odyssey.
Young, 59, has also dabbled in the theatrical during his shows. His 2003 concept album Greendale was conceived as an elaborate multimedia rock opera/traveling stage show that featured set pieces and a cast of more than two dozen actors lip-synching along to a song cycle about people struggling in a fictional California town.
The performance, which served as a vehicle by which the veteran musician offered personal commentary on the state of American life and politics, was also released as a movie and DVD.
Demme, whose soundtrack for his film Philadelphia featured an Oscar-nominated track from Young, said the Crazy Horse frontman's impetus to join forces with the filmmaker on Prairie Wind may have had something to do with the health crisis he faced in April when he was treated for a brain aneurysm.
"Because he never backslides, I've talked to Neil often about doing a performance film, and I knew this was right as soon as he sent me the CD," Demme told Variety. "These songs, which cover everything from 9/11 to loving your children, came from a deep place, and they are so dreamy and gorgeous. He recorded them in between when he was told he had an aneurysm and when he had the operation to correct it. Maybe he was in a certain special place."
Joining Young on stage, will be several notable guest musicians including Emmylou Harris, who opened for him on his Greendale tour, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, the Fisk Unversity Jubilee Singers and Carl Gordetsky and the 12-piece Nashville String Machine.
Demme is co-producing the picture with Playtone Productions, the company run by Tom Hanks and producing partner Gary Goetzman, as well as Ilona Hertzberg, and Elliot Rubinowitz and Bernard Shakey. (The latter two are pseudonyms used in pictures by the Godfather of Grunge's manager Elliot Roberts and Young himself.)
A limited number of tickets are expected to be made available to the general public in the run up to the show. If all goes well, Paramount will unspool the concert film later this year in theaters, hopefully on the heels of the album's release, though an exact target date has not been announced.
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