Before Star Wars, George Lucas’ feature length debut was a stylistic Sci-FI movie starring Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence. Since its release, THX 1138 has achieved cult status and samples from the dialogue and soundtrack have been used by a host of influential artists including, Nine Inch Nails, The Shamen, Meat Beat Manifesto, UNKLE, Orbital, and Front 242.
The film’s sound design was made by triple Oscar winner Walter Murch who also designed the soundtrack to ‘Apocalypse Now’. The films  themes around surveillance and technology’s part in society, make THX 1138 just as relevant today as it was over forty years ago.

Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) are celebrated for their brilliant live shows which mix rapcore, dub, dancehall and raga sounds, and for performing live soundtracks to iconic films. At this event ADF will perform their exhilarating and fast moving score to this amazing film, live at Sage Gateshead.

Presented by Sage Gateshead

Image: © 1971 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved

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