The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)
Synopsis
(I couldn't find any trivia about this movie. It's a documentary but with big stars reading the parts of the main personalities in the story.)Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden is a fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the Galapagos’ “Adam and Eve”, others flock there—including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson and a gun-toting Viennese Baroness and her two lovers. Clashing personalities are aggravated by the island community’s lusty free-love ethos, and when some of the islanders disappear, suspicions of murder hang in the air leaving an unsolved mystery which remains the subject of local lore today.
To bring this extraordinary story to life, filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller (Ballets Russes) nimbly interweave newly unearthed home movies of these original settlers; testimonies of modern day islanders; stunning HD footage of native flora and fauna; and powerful voice performances by Oscar® winner Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Gustaf Skarsgård and Josh Radnor. Macabre yet inspiring, The Galapagos Affair is a gripping parable of Robinson Crusoe adventure and utopian dreams gone awry.
The Wrecking Crew (2008)
Trivia
This movie is not to be confused with the Matt Helm movie. Although these musicians did back up Dean Martin on many of his records.The producers finished the movie in 2008 after working on it for 17 years, but didn't have the money to pay for licensing all the music which was essential to telling the story. So they launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the $250,000 they needed to pay the license fees.
Filmmaker Denny Tedesco's father was one of the guitar players in the Wrecking Crew and the film is both an homage to him as well as a documentary of those days in music.
Hall Blaine estimates that he has played drums on over 10,000 records.
Pop acts backed up by various members of The Wrecking Crew include:
- Alvin and The Chipmunks
- Beach Boys
- Bing Crosby
- Bread
- Captain & Tennille
- Dean Martin
- Elvis Presley
- Fifth Dimension
- Frank Sinatra
- Frank Zappa
- Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- Johnny Rivers
- Mamas & Papas
- Mason Williams
- Nancy Sinatra
- Nat King Cole
- Neil Diamond
- Rick Nelson
- Sam Cooke
- Simon and Garfunkel
- Sonny & Cher
- The Association
- The Baja Marimba Band
- The Byrds
- The Carpenters
- The Doors
- The Monkees
- The Righteous Brothers
- The Ronettes
- Wayne Newton
Rating for May's movies
The Square: 3.67
The Unknown Known: 2.83
Other Notables Movies
Hosting Schedule
- June: Hugh
- July: Nic
- August: Don
- September: Ted (joint meeting)
- October: Carl
- November: Steve
- December: Bill
For the joint meeting, the shorts program will be selected by Dean, Steve and Bill T.
