The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González is a 74-minute film directed by Mikel Cee Karisson and Fredrik Egerstrand and produced by Erik Hemmendorff for Plattform Produktion.
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The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González
Wah Do Dem starring Sean Bones & Norah Jones
Brooklyn musician Max (Sean Bones) is set to take his girlfriend (played by Norah Jones) on a Carribean cruise until to his surprise, she dumps him just days before. When his friends flake, the determined Max decides to set sail solo, where, after docking in Jamaica, having all his personal possessions stolen and missing the boat, he embarks on a reggae-infused odyssey features music and appearances by MGMT, Santigold, Sean Bones, The Congos, Yeasayer, and more.
Wah Do Dem will be available on DVD and as a digital download from the Factory 25 website beginning October 26th (pre-order).
http://www.wahdodem.com/
Wah Do Dem facebook
http://www.factorytwentyfive.com/
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead, The Last Testament of George Harrison
In the summer of 2005, a package arrived at the Hollywood offices of Highway 61 Entertainment from London with no return address. Inside were two mini-cassette audio tapes dated December 30, 1999 and labeled The Last Testament of George Harrison. A voice identical to Harrison tells a shocking story: Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in November of 1966 and replaced with a double! British intelligence, MI5, had forced the Beatles to cover up McCartney’s death to prevent mass suicides of Beatle fans. However, the remaining Beatles tried to signal fans with clues on album covers and in songs.
Until now, the “Paul is Dead” mystery that exploded worldwide in 1969 was considered a hoax. However, in this film, George Harrison reveals a secret Beatles history, chronicling McCartney’s fatal accident, the cover up, dozens of unknown clues, and a dangerous cat and mouse game with “Maxwell,” the Beatles’ MI5 handler, as John Lennon became increasingly reckless with the secret. Harrison also insists that Lennon was assassinated in 1980 after he threatened to finally expose “Paul McCartney” as an imposter.
Highway 61 Entertainment has corroborated most of George Harrison’s account of the conspiracy to hide McCartney’s tragic death. Harrison’s complete audio tapes narrate this film that includes all the newly unearthed evidence.
(above description by director Joel Gilbert of Highway 61 Entertainment)
MVD Visual will release Paul McCartney Really Is Dead, The Last Testament of George Harrison – for North American distribution on September 1, 2010. Wienerworld will release the DVD in Great Britain and Europe with subtitles in Spanish, French, and German on October 4, 2010.
preview:
purchase:
North America (MVD)
UK & Europe (Wienerworld)
http://www.paulreallyisdead.com
All Tomorrow’s Parties film
Recently took in the well-conceived All Tomorrow’s Parties documentary – a film incorporating Super8, camcorder and mobile phone footage contributed by filmmakers, fans and musicians from the cult festival’s history with major contributions from Jonathan Caouette and Vincent Moon. Featured in the film are performances from Battles, Sonic Youth, Belle And Sebastian, Patti Smith, Animal Collective, Grinderman, Iggy and the Stooges, Portishead, Mogwai, Slint, Grizzly Bear, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip, Daniel Johnston and The Boredoms. The ATP festival is unique for its band and fan curated lineups, lack of corporate sponsorships, and country club / summer camp living conditions. Capturing the spirit of these festivals, All Tomorrow’s Parties travels from sporadic outdoor jams, staged performances, drunken late night antics, camp beach walks, and other colored images of what once upon a time could have only been imagined in some parallel universe.
The Boredoms take the prize for best performance in the film as their impromptu spiritual, encapsulating sound, and vision are well imagined on film. The Grinderman footage shows the legendary Nick Cave in fine form, though it is even better to see David Cross being told to “fuck off” as he attempts a disparaging Jesus routine. Also of note, Daniel Johnston can be seen in environments including the lawn, the chalet, and official stage.
It may appear a trifle detail, but what is also of particular interest is the film’s lack of guys wearing backwards baseball caps; perhaps a notice that the real charm of the ATP is that the agent provocateurs who often ruin shows are not in attendance. The ATP philosophy is summed up by Thurston Moore and his talk of returning the music back to the people while defying the corporatization of youth culture. The hope is there and realized within the confines of the ATP as there is no doubt from this striking film; however, outside in the real world the commodification of “indie” seems to be a fait accompli. The All Tomorrow’s Parties documentary is slated for release on November 24, 2009.
trailer:
http://www.ourtrueintentisallforyourdelight.com/
http://www.myspace.com/atpfilm
http://www.warpx.co.uk/
R.E.M. This Is Not A Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin
R.E.M., Warner Bros. Records, and Cinema Purgatorio present “This Is Not A Theatrical Release,” limited sneak preview screenings of the upcoming R.E.M. documentary This Is Not A Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin.
screenings:
Oct 14 – IFF Boston at the Brattle – Cambridge, MA @ 9:30pm
Oct 16 – The Plaza – Atlanta, GA @ 7:30pm
Oct 18 – The ShowRoom – Asbury Park, NJ @ 9:00pm
Oct 22 – The Egyptian – Boise, ID
Oct 22 – The Drexel – Columbus, OH @ 8:00pm
Oct 23 – Criterion Cinemas – New Haven, CT
Oct 23 – Madcap Theatres – Tempe, AZ
Oct 23 – The Nickelodeon – Columbia, SC
Oct 23-24 – Savoy 16 – Urbana-Champaign, IL
Oct 24 – The Ryder presents at IU Fine Arts Theatre – Bloomington, IN
Oct 24 – The Capri Theatre – Montgomery, AL @ 9:00pm
Oct 27 – Cinema Purgatorio at the Kraine Theatre – New York, NY
Oct 27 – Downtown Independent – Los Angeles, CA
Oct 27 – UVM Davis Center – Burlington, VT @ 8:00pm
Oct 30– The Bear Tooth – Anchorage, AK
Nov 1 – 941 Theater – Philadelphia, PA @ 8:00pm
Nov 5 – Dallas Video Festival – Dallas, TX
Oct 26 – Hotel Indigo – Athens, GA (R.E.M. has arranged an event)
Oct 23-25 – Northwest Film Forum – Seattle, WA
This Is Not A Show Trailer by Bill Berg-Hillinger
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
http://www.remhq.com
http://www.remdublin.com
The Drifter:: Rob Machado searches the soul in Indonesia
Hurley and Warner Bros. Records will release The Drifter, surfer Rob Machado’s much-anticipated autobiographical movie, this fall. The film will have limited theatrical screenings across the country and will also be released on DVD. Directed by Poor Specimen’s Taylor Steele this is a personal journey as much as it is a showcase of some of the world’s most perfect waves. The Drifter starts in Bali, where Machado is looking for life’s deeper meaning. That surf trip ends up taking him on a soul-searching journey where he eventually finds himself in Indonesia ’s outermost reaches with nothing but a surfboard, his journal and a tent. Much of the dialogue in The Drifter is taken from Rob’s own personal journals.
MUSICIANS FEATURED IN THE DRIFTER:
Jon Swift
Rob Machado
Stardeath & White Dwarfs
The Black Keys
By The Fireside
The Raconteurs
Midlake
Iron & Wine
Tegan & Sara
Jon and Roy
The Len Brown Society
Dr. Dog
Brett Dennen
Bon Iver
Jose Gonzalez
MGMT
Yeasayer
The Shins
MUSIC IN BONUS SURF PIECE:
Jets Overhead
The Morning Benders
Matt Costa
Jon and Roy
trailer:
http://www.thedriftermovie.com
Searching For Michael Peterson in the U.S.
The film about Australia’s cult surfing hero, Searching For Michael Peterson has announced its United States screening tour during September and October 2009. Michael Peterson ruled the surf scene throughout the early to mid-1970s with his groundbreaking surfing. An undiagnosed schizophrenic, Michael couldn’t handle the fame his surfing powers attracted, and he retreated into a world of hard drugs, fast cars and shadows. He eventually hit rock bottom after a car chase, which took 35 police cars to stop him. It’s an intoxicating and addictive tale for anyone who has ever felt like a fish out of water. “The story of Michael Peterson makes Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas look like Alice In Wonderland.” Describes Peterson biographer, Sean Doherty. The film is available to purchase from the website.
Director, Jolyon Hoff recalls:
“As a teenager, my friends and I would drive our cars up the Australian coast to places like Seal Rocks or Angourie or Lennox Head and Byron Bay. The trips were all about growing up – there were girls, drunken nights, experiments with drugs, warm water and beautiful waves. We were after the surf but it was often the other unexpected things that happened along the way that became the highlight of the trip – stories to be endlessly recounted on our next trip.”
Hoff continues, “It was on these trips that I first heard, from the older surfers we met, the stories of Michael Peterson, this mysterious character and incredible surfer. We’d sit around the campfire and they would speak with reverence while we listened in awe. It was like a surfing ghost story in many ways.” “Years later, I decided to throw the boards on the roof and the cameras in the boot and head out to the point breaks, beaches and carparks to capture all these wild, weird and mysterious stories.”
Searching for Michael Peterson Trailer:
http://searchingformichaelpeterson.com
http://thirdstoryfilms.com/about/about_jh.html
East of Sunset:: Silver Lake, Echo Park Music Scene
Funny how I have to tell some of my out of date friends that the LA music scene is great. Many have no idea. This isn’t nineties LA, and it ain’t even about the Sunset Strip. Seems some folks thought the local musicians needed some love as well. video snagged from laist.
http://www.thrillhouseproductions.com/
http://laist.com/
Where The Wild Things Are:: Original Songs By Karen O and The Kids
Where the Wild Things Are is a screenplay co-written by Spike Jonze and author Dave Eggers, with music by Karen O and a host of friends. Karen O and The Kids include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (YYY), Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion), Nick Zinner, (YYY) and an untrained children’s choir.
http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/
http://www.myspace.com/wherethewildthingsare
Flyin’ Cut Sleeves
Sleeping Dogs Films and MVD Visual are proud to announce the DVD release of Flyin’ Cut Sleeves on October 20th in North America. This 60-minute documentary was produced and directed by Henry Chalfant (of Style Wars fame) and Rita Fecher.
Flyin’ Cut Sleeves, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film’s co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders’ families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence.
Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as “families”, but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. In fact, the “families” had a stabilizing effect, enabling the youths to cope with their troubled environment. The political climate at the time, movements of national liberation and such organizations as the Black Panthers and Young Lords Party influenced the young gang leaders to aspire to be more than warriors and to become, to some degree, a positive force in their communities.
When Rita Fecher returned after twenty years to see what had become of her old friends, she found that they had stayed in the community of their youth, that they were deeply committed to improving conditions there and that they were engaged in helping their own children survive in the hazardous street environment. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
video:
http://www.seeofsound.com/p.php?s=MVDV4900
This Is Spinal Tap on Blu-ray
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap, one of rock’s most famous and most re-watchable films has been released for the first time on Blu-ray. The package not only includes all of the extra features that were on the DVD version, but also a second disc of new bonus material, including Spinal Tap’s “Stonehenge” performance at the 2007 Live Earth Festival, and a National Geographic Stonehenge interview with Nigel Tufnel. While the film offers up all the hilarious commentary on the band and rock culture, the bonus scenes are sure to sit well with longtime fans. Did aliens really build Stonehenge or was it a large mass of people? Find out more within the confines of the new Blu-ray edition.
includes:
over 1 hour of deleted scenes and outtakes
commentary from members of the band
Catching up with Marty DiBergi
Flower People press conference
4 Spinal Tap videos
Spinal Tap on the Joe Franklin Show
and more…
video:
Tiny Stonehenge
These Go Up To 11
Woodstock Diary 1969:: Friday Saturday Sunday
While there have been lackluster attempts to imitate the event, the original Woodstock Festival was far more than fires, hordes of dudes in backwards hats, and other idiocy. In honor of the 40th Anniversary, Woodstock Diary 1969: Friday Saturday Sunday will see a DVD Release on September 22nd via MVD Visual and Wienerworld. Directed and filmed by D.A. Pennebaker, and produced by Alan Douglas (who actually shot Woodstock), this is a 180-minutes that can never be repeated. August 15th 1969 was a day that went down in popular music culture when nearly 500,000 people descended on the infamous site of Woodstock to listen to 26 now-legendary artists over a 3 day period. It recaptures the days of the hippie movement when young people really believed that they could change the world.
Woodstock Diary 1969: Friday Saturday Sunday features appearances from The Who with ‘My Generation’, Janis Joplin giving a heart-stopping rendition of “Ball & Chain”, Arlo Guthrie performing Dylan’s “Walking Down The Line” and Tim Hardin’s tender reading of his own classic song “If I Were A Carpenter.” Richie Havens, Sha Na Na, Incredible String Band, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Crosby Stills & Nash, Jo Cocker, Country Joe and The Fish and Jimi Hendrix also turn in classic performances.
track listing:
I Can’t Make It Any More
Freedom
Fixin’ To Die
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
When You Find Out Who You Are
Jennifer
If I Were A Carpenter
Evening Raga
Walkin’ Down The Line
Drugstore Truck Drivin’ Man
Sir Galahad
Waiting For You
Soul Sacrifice
Leaving This Town
Southband Train
Love City
Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
Ball & Chain
My Generation
Somebody To Love
White Rabbit
Let’s Get Stoned
(Thing Called) Love
I’m Going Home
The Weight
Mean Town Blues
Blackbird
Everything Gonna Be Alright
Duke of Earl
Star Spangled Banner
Woodstock Improvisation
Villanova Junction
http://www.seeofsound.com/p.php?s=WNRD2467
