Vintage film and soundtrack enthusiast Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar-winning Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg, and music supervisor Mary Ramos, known for her long-time collaboration with Quentin Tarantino, are among the guests set to attend Italy’s new Sounds Like a Movie (SLAM) festival dedicated to soundtracks.
The three-day event, featuring live performances, screenings, panels, masterclasses and workshops, is hosted in Milan by Italian label CAM Sugar.
The first SLAM event, to be held at the Triennale Milano Museum from November 14th to 16th, will be held in parallel with CAM Sugar’s 65th anniversary. The label boasts the world’s largest catalog of Italian film soundtracks, with over 2,500 original titles, including Nino Rota’s compositions for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, Morricone Segreto, an album based on Ennio Morricone’s lesser-known experimental films, and Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Temptation from Italy. Sexploitation Cinema” is a compilation released earlier this year featuring a selection of tracks from Ross.
“SLAM is a concrete example of what we always aim to do: to strengthen the deep connections not only between music and images, but also between the people who carry out this valuable cultural endeavor,” Sugar Group CEO Filippo Sugar said in a statement. “We are proud to organize this event, believing that it will help make Milan a truly international hub for music and film.”
The festival opens with a panel discussion on soundtrack preservation led by Gianluca Farinelli, director of the Film Restoration Institute at Italy’s historic Bologna Film Archive. He speaks with Stéphane Lerouge, who curates the Ecotel Le Cinema collection at Universal Music France, and Andrea Fabrizii of CAM Sugar.
Winding Refn will be speaking on stage with genre film specialist Manlio Gomaraska. Ramos and Holly Adams, Universal Music Group’s head of soundtracks and music, will be holding court with Italian journalist Dario Zonta about the soundscapes in “The Cinematic World of Ennio Morricone.”
After the screening of The Brutalist, Zonta will host an onstage talk with Blumberg about the Oscar-winning song, which blends experimental work with traditional genres such as period jazz, and soundtracking its finale with La Bionda’s 1978 Italo disco hit “One for You, One for Me.”
Live events at SLAM will include a concert by multi-hyphenate author Emile Mosseri, who composed the soundtrack for the 2021 Oscar-nominated “Minari.” Dustin O’Halloran wins Emmy Award for title theme to Prime Video’s “Transparent.” A set by Italian trance music producer Lorenzo Senni.
Pictured above (left to right), Nicolas Winding Refn and Daniel Blumberg.
