Three Sundance '09 Docs
Among the just-revealed Sundance '09 selections for Documentary, Dramatic and World Cinema competition, my three personal stands-outs are all docs: (1) When You're Strange (director-screenwriter: Tom DiCillo) -- This first-ever feature-length doc about The Doors "enters the dark and dangerous world of one of America's most influential bands using only footage shot between 1966 and 1971"; (2) William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (directors: Sarah and Emily Kunstler) -- A portrait of the most famous and influential radical leftie lawyers of the 20th century who defended, among many '60s-era New Left defendants, the Chicago 7; and (3) The September Issue (director: R.J. Cutler) -- Culled from nine months of covering Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her team preparing the 2007 Vogue September issue, widely accepted as the "fashion bible" for the year's trends.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM
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Vardemon
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Testing ... Can anyone else post?
Posted by Vardemon
at December 3, 2008 4:37 PM
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btwnproductions
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Yes.
Posted by btwnproductions
at December 3, 2008 4:39 PM
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Deathtongue_Groupie
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I'm sorry, but when were The Doors ever influential other than in some rock-star-as-sex-symbol manner?
I cannot honestly recall a single interview with a later musician who listed The Doors OR Jim Morrison as any sort of influence on their music. I'm not, really, knocking their music but I think the reason we keep seeing things like this doc and Ray Manzarek pushing the DVD at Laser Blazer is expressly because The Doors are becoming a footnote in music history.
Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie
at December 4, 2008 12:36 AM
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D.Z.
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Posted by D.Z.
at December 4, 2008 3:51 AM
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Joshua Mooney
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Influential, sir? I dare say we'd have never had the immortal "Friends of Mine" by the Guess Who without Jimbo and the Doors!
" Up the thirteen steps of the gallows walked the condemned man
And time passes very quickly when death is near
After having completed the first step, the condemned man knew there were but twelve left
Before he would meet death and his soul would leave his body
And after having completed the thirteen steps the condemned man was met by a giant cloaked figure
And with a quick flick of the wrist the man was dead
And his soul left his body and went down down down
To a place we laughingly refer to as hell
But none of us will ever go there because we're all far too groovy
The man's body was left to rot on the gallows
And a great multitude of black birds came and picked the man's corpse apart
Piece by piece
Limb by limb
Until nothing remained
And his blood melted into the ground below
The gallows was made from a tree created by God
The man's blood dripped into the ground which was created by God
Even the giant cloaked figure which was the man's own end was created by God
Even the man's soul which went down was created by God
Even the black birds which picked the man's corpse apart were created by God
AND WHERE WAS GOD?"
Posted by Joshua Mooney
at December 4, 2008 7:22 AM
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SpinDozer
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The Doors? Snore. Lets have a feature length doc which "enters the dark and dangerous world of one of America's most influential bands using only footage shot between 1966 and 1971" about the Velvet Underground.
Posted by SpinDozer
at December 4, 2008 10:43 AM
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Joshua Mooney
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Velvet Underground doc would be great, but what archival footage is there beyond the obvious? (Plus whatever is in the Warhol vaults). And most of their bootleg audio is raw and awful. 24 minutes of "Sister Ray" from Robert Quine's shitty tapes? All told, we'd be better off with a Stooges doc. There's glorious footage of Iggy and the lads, and they were more crucial than the Velvets anway.
Just one man' s opinion.
Posted by Joshua Mooney
at December 4, 2008 12:37 PM
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Edward
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Back in the day I discovered Upsala University's alternative radio station and The Doors' "Light My Fire" opened me up to the joys of Rock.
I'm sorry Joshua, but I find "Friends of Mine" to be pretentious drivel.
Posted by Edward
at December 4, 2008 2:46 PM
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Joshua Mooney
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Oy! Edward! Lad! I'm done in by my dry-as-toast wit. And it aiin't the first time. I was directing my post to any hard-core classic rock fan who might still have a scratehed-up vinyl copy of the Guess Who's debut album. Yes, ithe lyrics are pretentious drivel, and that's the point. When I first heard "Friends of Mine," circa '78, in a smokey room full of bong exhales, I said, "Damn, these guys are prertentiously drivelling all over Morrison's grave. Who are they?"
---My friend Dave said, "Guess who."
---I said, "That's what I'm asking. Who?"
---"No. Do you wanna know the name of the band?"
---"Yes."
---"No. Wrong again. Guess Who."
---"That's what I'm tryin' ta figure out!"
(apologies to the Credibility Gap)
Posted by Joshua Mooney
at December 4, 2008 4:00 PM
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SpinDozer
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'Just one man' s opinion'
Not a bad one, but not the same years as the Doors doc which was my point, and wouldn't it be great to find a whole great sounding show in Warhol's archive?
Have you listen to Metallic KO recently?
Posted by SpinDozer
at December 4, 2008 5:06 PM
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janee
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at May 19, 2011 2:48 AM