Words for the Dying (1990) | Stream

WORDS FOR THE DYING 

Feature Documentary: John Cale travels from the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam, to a symphony hall in Perestroika Russia where he joins Brian Eno to record Words for the Dying an album of songs written by Cale with lyrics from Dylan Thomas poetry, produced by Eno. Cale returns to his hometown in Wales to visit his mother and recording continues with a Welsh Boys Chorus and finishes in a London studio. Nilsson travels with them recording the collaboration but Eno doesn't want to be videoed while working. Trouble ensues.

"WORDS FOR THE DYING is a great documentary. This fine movie deserves a place beside D.A. Pennebaker's DON'T LOOK BACK about Dylan and the unreleased Stones film ('''SUCKER BLUES) as brilliantly accurate life-of-rock musician portraitures." - Dennis Harvey, writer Variety/Bay Guardian

Director:

• Rob Nilsson

Featured Artists:

• John Cale

• Brian Eno

Music Contributors:

• The Falklands Suite

• Poems by: Dylan Thomas (© 1971 by the Trustees)

• The Orchestra of Symphonic & Popular Music of Gosteleradio, USSR

Conducted by:Alexander G. Mikhailov

• The Choir of Llandaff Cathedral Choir School, S. Wales

Choirmaster: Dr. Michael Smith

Additional Tracks:

• The Year of the Patriot

Words & Music by: John Cale & Brian Eno

Performed by: John Cale & Rodion Azarkhin

• "Krim", "Radiopyatkin"

Written & Performed by: Zvuki Mu

- Alexei Bortnichuk

- Pavel Hotin

• Brigada S

- Igor Sukachev

- Yevgeni Borisovich Korotkov

- Igor Yartsev

- Sergei Tenenbaum

- Sergei Galenin

- Maxsim Likachev

Director of Photography:

• Tomas Tucker

• Oleg Shvechkov

Second Unit Director:

• David Donohue

Additional Camera:

• Rob Nilsson

• Vladimir Lozinski

Sound Recordists:

• Dan Gleich

• Ura Kolchin

Post-Production Sound:

• Brian Masterson

Sound Assistant:

• Sarah McCann

Editor:

• Henk Van Eeghen

Online Editor:

• Tim Morris

Assistant Editors:

• Robindira Nelson

• Niamh Walsh

Production Coordinator:

• Peter Brady

Production Assistants:

• Jo Gates

• Liam Harkan

Location Coordinator:

• Tom Houghton

Translator:

• Christopher Eccles

Still Photographs:

• Lex Van Rossen

• Ronald Van Caen

• Jan Voster

Paint Photography:

• Joe O’Byrne

Title Graphics:

• Philip Owens

• Hubert Montag

Titles:

• Dympna Clerkin

Tape Transfer:

• Barbara Cremin

Archival Footage & Photography:

• Joyce Van Rijn

Post-Production Facility:

• Windmill Lane Pictures, Dublin

Line Producer:

• Robin O’Hara

Producers:

• David Donohue

• James Morris

Executive Producers:

• John Cale

• Dan Silver

Thanks To:

• Nell Catonpolo

• Rand Crook

• Crystal Film and Video (London)

• Jack Emblow

• Dave Fleming

• Vincent Freemont

• Holland Park Hotel (London)

• Bronwen La Grue

• Emily Lee

• John Lee

• Fay Levine

• Dave Martin Couriers

• Vincent Martinez

• South Kensington Squash Club

• Maggie Mooney

• NBG Rome

• Anne O’Connor

• Tony Orchudesah

• Carol Peyser

• Portobello Hotel (London)

• Jill Rotter

• Heather Reynolds

• Brian Eno

• Anthea Norman-Taylor

• Paradiso (Amsterdam)

• Andy Warhol Foundation (Velvet Underground footage)

• The South Bank Show

• WDR (John Cale performance footage)

• Leonard Zezulin at Sovtelexport & Gosteleradio Studios, Moscow

• Murad Kazhlaev & Orchestra

• The Music Factory (Sardinia)

• Chris Whent

• Bernard & Margaret Llewellyn (Garreg Gennen Castle & Farm, Wales)

• The Strong Room (London)

• Wilderness Studios (Woodbridge, Suffolk)

Okunrin Meta - David Schickele