A world-renowned film director comes to the city for a special screening to celebrate 30 years of his Beatles inspired film. Iain Softley will be at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton , tonight at 7pm, for a screening of the 30th anniversary of his film Backbeat. The night will involve a showing of the movie in its original 35mm format followed by a live Q and A session.
Backbeat is set in 1960 following the complex story of The Beatles' first bassist Stuart Sutcliffe and the rest of the band (Image: Mark Tille) “The Duke of York cinema has a reputation for showing 35mm film and Backbeat was shot in that format,” Iain told The Argus, “I think that the intensity of the colour is something that you can only experience when you watch the film as it was originally conceived. “I believe that it has a way deeper colour range than digital films which are limited and tend to be flat, and it’s one of the reasons I chose Brighton to screen this special anniversary edition.” READ MORE: Ricky Gervais brings new show Mortality to Brighton Centre Iain has directed films such as Hackers (1995) which starred Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee-Miller, The Wings of the Dove (1997) which starred Helena Bonham-Carter and K-PAX (2001) which starred Kevin Spacy and topped the US box office, to name a few.
The soundtrack to the film featured the likes of Dave Grohl from Nirvana and Mike Mills from R.E.M (Image: Mark Tille) Backbeat is set in 1960, where close friends Stuart Sutclif.