As part of the BFI’s blockbuster summer project The Genius of Hitchcock, it is announced today that Hitchcock’s early silent film The Ring (1927) will be premiered in its newly restored glory and brought to life with a live performance of a brand new score by Soweto Kinch.
Award winning saxophonist, MC and rising star Kinch has been commissioned by the BFI to write the new score for this heavy-hitting boxing drama that helped inspire The Artist - according to its director Michel Hazanavicius.
The film will be presented in its newly restored splendour at The Hackney Empire, a venue frequented by Hitchcock, on 13th July as part of the BFI’s official involvement in the LOGOC London Festival 2012 celebrations.
Soweto joins a growing roster of British musical talent writing scores for the new silent Hitchcock restorations including Nitin Sawhney (The Lodger at The Barbican, July 21st) and Daniel Patrick Cohen (The Pleasure Garden at Wilton’s Music Hall, June 28th & 29th).
Universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest film-makers Alfred Hitchcock received critical and box office acclaim early in his career. The Ring, one of Hitchcock’s earliest films, is a brilliantly paced melodrama set in the world of boxing.
The director himself claimed that, after The Lodger, this is the next 'Hitchcock' picture. The story is a love triangle between a fairground boxer whose lover falls for the charms of a professional fighter and is told with a bold visual style.
This is Hitchcock's one and only original screenplay but its neatness and economy confirmed him as Britain’s leading filmmaker of his generation.
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