The Kinks

Biopic about The Kinks underway from director Julien Temple

The Kinks commemorated their 50th anniversary last year with a career-spannijg anthology, which featured exclusive notes from David Bowie aptly named The Essential Kinks. The iconic rock band from Britain will now further with a new biopic named You Really Got Me.  

Julien Temples, who is best known for his Sex Pistols-based film, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle and Glastonbury, a documentary about the history of the UK festival will be directing the film. This new  film apparently will focus on the intense relationship between the band’s brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

Temple  told Screen Daily recently: “This is an exciting chance to tell the Kinks’ story in a visceral and real way. The lyrics of The Kinks have always been fascinating to me and there is an amazing human story here as well which has yet to be captured on film.”
Johnny Flynn, singer-songwriter and actor, and George MacKay are planned to play Ray and Dave Davies respectively. Julien’s daughter, Juno Temple, will play Rasa, Ray Davies’ former wife, who would contribute to the band occasionally.  

You Reallt Got Me has apparently been a “long-time passion project” for Jeremy Thomas, the producer. He has secured the rights to both of the brothers’ autobiographies and has Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais writing the script. The film is set to start shooting later this year. 

Someone created a 166 track playlist of almost every song from Wes Anderson films

For nearly 20 years, Texas filmmaker Wes Anderson has been making his viewers come back for more especially when it comes down to his signature sounds, which includes everything from Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, The Kinks, or Seu Jorge. With that, there has recently a 166-track Spotify playlist that collects almost every song in a Anderson-directed film.

Rob Dean from The A.V. Club had shared this knowledge of this gem earlier today, saying that it overlooked Mark Mothersbaugh’s orchestral arrangements and anything from Satyajit Ray on The Darjeeling Limited. However, the tracklisting still has collected songs from as far as the black-and-white short film Bottle Rocket short up until the Academy Award-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel.

There is something every Anderson fan can find here, but it is much more meaningful to listen to the entire playlist from the beginning.