2019 BUFF Day 2
Green’s Party is proud to be covering the 2019 Boston Underground Film Festival, which is now in its 21st year and kicked off Wed.
The fun continued on Thursday afternoon with the New England Premiere of Poland’s Werewolf. I wasn’t able to make it to the Brattle by 5:30, but I heard from a few folks it was really good.
Jim and Dannie of Wax Trax! Records
I made it to the Brattle just in time for the Boston Premiere of the documentary Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records, a doc I’ve been wanting to seeing since it began its festival run last year. It traces Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, who opened the Wax Trax record shop in Denver, CO in the 70s catering to their love of glam rock. They, soon, moved to Chicago, IL and opened the store there at the exact moment that new wave was starting. The store evolved into an indie record label specializing in industrial music with bands like Ministry and Front 242. This is a music documentary that is almost 2-subgenres combined into 1: the record store doc and the music label doc. Among the featured talking head interviews included here are Jello Biafra, Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor. At times it spent a little more time on the bands than it was the overall label, but I have to say, what set this apart from a lot of music docs was the family at the heart of it. The director Julia Nash is the daughter of the late Jim Nash and she (as well as her brother and mother) are featured interviewees. In the pre-internet era, the fact that these pioneers were bringing new wave, punk and industrial to the masses is revolutionary. A very personal doc for sure!
I had to take off afterwards and I missed Girl on the Third Floor as well as the BUFF party at Brass Union.
Tonight: some cool shorts packages, including Homegrown Horror Chapter VI: Discomfort Food from New England filmmakers and Dark [Mid]Night of the Soul for some edgy late night viewing. Feature films include Tone-Deaf with Robert Patrick and Ray Wise.
For info on BUFF: https://bostonunderground.org/
