In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, davis virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years. Miles ahead film times in london cinema guide from all. Miles ahead is a 2015 american biographical drama film directed by don cheadle in his feature directorial debut, which cheadle cowrote with steven. This isnt miles best selling album, or necessarily one of his most widely known. Whether you require a standard car, executive car, cabriolet and convertible or 4x4suv, we have a vehicle to suit all occasions. Mixing truth and fiction, don cheadle writes, directs and stars in miles davis biopic, miles ahead. The great jazz trumpet players drinking, womanising and drug abuse are all on show in the new biopic, miles ahead. Cheadles miles ahead hits bum notes but still swings.
Miles ahead is a biopic starring don cheadle as famous social music trumpeter miles davis. After a fiveyear hiatus, troubled jazzman miles davis teams up with a brash reporter to retrieve. In addition, we find commercial opportunities, develop leads and help present your organisation to clients. Miles ahead original motion picture soundtrack discogs. Miles dewey davis iii may 26, 1926 september 28, 1991 was an american jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Watch miles ahead movie trailer and book miles ahead tickets online. In the midst of a prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz, miles davis cheadle virtually disappears from public view for a period of. In 1957 the legendary trumpeter, never overencumbered by modesty, put out an album called miles ahead. Miles ahead trailer like daviss music, the films structure is modal, with cheadle getting the legends changing stance spot on, as we slip on a cymbal splash between his incarnations as.
Miles ahead is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century musics creative geniuses, miles davis, featuring a career. Miles davis was one of the most important and influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. Miles ahead is worth watching for don cheadles strong work on both sides of the camera, even if this. Rivele, and christopher wilkinson, which interprets the life and compositions of jazz musician miles davis. There are so many textures and sounds and colors to the filmsheened afros, silk the. Miles ahead is a 2015 american biographical drama film directed by don cheadle in his feature directorial debut, which cheadle cowrote with steven baigelman, stephen j. Miles ahead original motion picture soundtrack miles. With actor don cheadle staking his reputation at the helm as director, producer, cowriter and also lead actor you can sense that this biopic of jazz musician miles davis is a project truly dear to his heart. Joined by a rolling stone magazine journalist, miles davis heads off on a wild and dangerous ride, telling his own story, the story of one of the true music greats, through a series of mythical adventures rife with shootouts, carchases and lostloves.
Rent miles ahead 2016 starring don cheadle and ewan mcgregor on dvd and bluray. Fact duets with fiction in the cincinnatishot miles ahead. Milesahead is a bespoke luxury hospitality company, founded in 2012, that wants to bring the human touch back to travel. Miles ahead is an original motion picture soundtrack of the film miles ahead.
A film by don cheadle all rolling stone reporter dave braden ewan mcgregor wants is an exclusive interview with the jazz legend himself, miles davis don cheadle. The camera often sits in unexpected placesdown an alley near the dumpster, languidly careening from one persons mouth to another during a conversation, holding onto the corner of a face. Rolling stone reporter dave brill ewan mcgregor wants is an exclusive interview with the jazz legend himself, miles davis don cheadle. More recently he has been running the miles electric band, and was also executive producer of the don cheadle film miles ahead. Miles ahead are specialist business development partners we provide prequalification pqq and tender support to small, medium and large organisations. Watch robert glasper play a vintage vibe tine piano in the new miles davis biopic, miles ahead. Directed, cowritten by and starring don cheadle, miles ahead is an unconventional biopic of the legendary jazz musician miles davis. Don cheadle, who directs and stars as miles davis in the forthcoming film miles ahead at ronnie scotts jazz club on april 5, 2016 in london, england. Director and star don cheadle hits a career high with this passionate and audacious biopic of.
He worked as both producer and sideman with miles in the 1980s. By 78, when the film takes place, miles ahead was twenty years old, yet all the world seemed to want from davis at. Cheadle who also directed, and wrote the film with steven baigelman actively pushes back against such a. Rent miles ahead 2016 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Inspired by events in miles daviss life, this is a wildly entertaining, impressionistic, noholdsbarred portrait of one of. But if you talk to jazz afficianados, every one knows miles ahead, and not just because the title track is one of his best known songs. Distance calculator how far is it from london england. Released on april 1, 2016, the soundtrack features miles davis, robert glasper, don cheadle, taylor eigsti, ewan mcgregor and phil schaap.
I use the term biopic loosely for this movie because its a biopic that is as unconventional as its. Miles davis biopic was a passion project for don cheadle. In 1981, rolling stone journalist dave braden ewan mcgregor is tasked with conducting a comeback interview with davis cheadle after the musicians years of seclusion. Birth of the cool explores the fascinating story behind the man who modernised jazz. The son of dorothy mae davis 19251996, he is miles davis nephew.
Breaking the mould of the standard music biopic, don cheadle avengers. Telling the story of daviss rise to fame, cheadles directorial debut deviates from the usual cradletothegrave narrative. The filmmakers got the idea for the title from miles davis himself. It details a passionate protest, an objection to or disapproval of something, either formally or publicly. The film borrows more than just the title of the revolutionary artists 1957 album. See distance to other cities from london england united kingdom measured in kilometers km, miles and nautical miles and their local time. Cheadle directing his first feature creates a film whose nerve its hero would surely admire. Images move in and out of focus, at times without reason. Theres a hoppedup scene in miles ahead, controlled yet frenzied, when you get why don cheadle decided to go for broke. Throughout the film, miless only mission is to reclaim a master copy of his music of which columbia records subsequently owns. With don cheadle, emayatzy corinealdi, ewan mcgregor, michael stuhlbarg. That there were many shades to musician miles davis life is a given. The other clue to daviss retirement might be that title. From meeting mountain gorillas in rwanda or climbing to tigers nest in bhutan to boating up the mekong in laos or strolling the streets of old cartagena in colombia, we will curate your experience to be uniquely tailored to you.
But as the threat of selfannihilation hovers over miles ahead, mr. An exploration of the life and music of miles davis. Premiering as the closing night film of the new york film festival, miles ahead marks the feature directorial debut of don cheadle. It was recently acquired by sony pictures classics and will be the closing. A largely inventive and energetic portrayal of a pasttheirprime music legend thats let down by. The film stars cheadle, emayatzy corinealdi, and ewan mcgregor, and closed the new york film festival on october 11, 2015.
Adored by jazz and rock fans alike, he revolutionised jazz music with his seminal albums bitches brew and kind of blue. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20thcentury music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a fivedecade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Stanley nelson on how he made the miles davis film youve. Distances are measured using a direct path, as the crow flies and the compass direction is shown as well. The fandango movieclips trailers channel is your destination for. Sony pictures classicsmiles ahead directed by don cheadle. He recently completed production on miles ahead, a miles davis biopic starring don cheadle and ewan mcgregor, which marks cheadles feature film directorial debut. The last days of chez nous once upon a time in london thunder road goodfellas. It was also an opportunity too good to turn down, with davis own family opting for him as their directorial choice.
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