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SLC Punk!

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SLC Punk!
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Merendino
Produced by	Jan de Bont
Written by	James Merendino
Starring	Matthew Lillard Michael A. Goorjian Jason Segel Annabeth Gish Jennifer Lien Christopher McDonald
Cinematography	Greg Littlewood
Editing by	Esther P. Russell
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s)	April 16, 1999
Running time	97 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$800,000
Gross revenue	$299,569

SLC Punk! is a 1998 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by James Merendino. The film is about the young punk rock fan Steven "Stevo" Levy, a college graduate living in Salt Lake City. The character is portrayed as an exaggerated stereotype of an anarchist punk in the mid 1980s. Many events and characters in the movie are allegedly based on real life, although they may have been exaggerated.
The character of Stevo is based on the life of writer/director James Merendino, although the character is named after Stephen Egerton, originally known as Stephen "Stevo" O'Reilly, who played for the Salt Lake City punk band Massacre Guys, and eventually joined the L.A. bands Descendents and ALL. SLC Punk was chosen as the opening-night feature at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.^[1]

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 1.1 Events upon which the movie is based 2 Cast 3 Salt Lake City 4 The tribes 5 Soundtrack 6 References 7 External links 8 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The film outlines the daily lives of two punks in Salt Lake City in the summer of 1985. The film is shot in a documentary, "slice-of-life" style, with frequent voiceovers by Stevo (Matthew Lillard), who narrates the film in past-tense, and his best friend "Heroin" Bob (Michael A. Goorjian). The nickname is ironic, since Bob is afraid of needles and actually believes that any drug (with the notable exception of alcohol and cigarettes) is inherently dangerous.
Stevo and Bob live in Salt Lake City, going from party to party while living in a dilapidated apartment. They spend much of their time fighting with members of other subcultures, particularly rednecks. Stevo has a casual relationship with a girl named Sandy (Jennifer Lien), while Heroin Bob is in love with Trish (Annabeth Gish), the manager of a head shop, however he is reluctant to ask her to become his girlfriend.
The two of them are shaped by their experiences with their parents. Stevo's parents, now divorced, are former hippies who are proud of their youthful endeavors; however, Stevo is revolted by what he perceives as their "selling out", which they lamely try to justify. Stevo's grades are actually excellent, but when his father (Christopher McDonald)- a lawyer with a Porsche and a penchant for younger women - sends an application to Harvard Law School and Stevo is accepted; he nevertheless rejects it because of his beliefs. By contrast, Bob's father is a paranoid, drunken wreck who mistakes his son and his friend for CIA operatives, and chases them away with a shotgun when they visit him on his birthday.
Stevo begins to see the drawbacks of living the punk life as the movie continues. Sean, a fellow punk, is a drug dealer who once attempts to stab his mother while under the influence of LSD, before being taken away by the police; Stevo later finds him panhandling on the streets. While he understands that his relationship with Sandy is casual, he's still enraged when he discovers her having sex with another man, and savagely beats him, later loathing himself because his action contradicts his own belief in chaos. His social circle begins to drift away, one leaving Salt Lake City to become an environmental activist and save endangered rain forests. Stevo falls in love at first sight when Trish introduces him to a young rich girl named Brandy (Summer Phoenix), who points out that his anarchic clothing and attitudes are more of a fashion choice than an actual political philosophy. Rather than being offended, Stevo takes the criticism thoughtfully and they passionately kiss.
At the same party, Heroin Bob complains of a headache (induced by Spandau Ballet's "She Loved Like Diamond" playing on a stereo), and is given percodan, which he consumed while intoxicated with alcohol. The accidental drug overdose kills him in his sleep. When Stevo discovers that his best friend is dead, he breaks down completely. At the funeral, he appears with a shaved head and changed clothing, and decides that he's done with his punk lifestyle. He decides to go to Harvard Law School, and suggests in the narration that he marries Brandy. He notes in his closing narration that his youthful self would probably kick his future self's ass, wryly describing himself as ultimately just another poseur.

[edit] Events upon which the movie is based

Writer-director James Merendino created the film based on his experience growing up as a Mohawk-wearing punk in Salt Lake City. Although not autobiographical, Merendino has said that many characters were based on people he knew.^[2]

[edit] Cast

• Matthew Lillard as Steven "Stevo" Levy
• Michael A. Goorjian as "Heroin" Bob
• Annabeth Gish as Trish
• Jennifer Lien as Sandy
• Christopher McDonald as Mr. Levy
• Devon Sawa as Sean the Beggar
• Jason Segel as Mike
• Adam Pascal as Eddie
• Til Schweiger as Mark
• Jimmy Duval as John the Mod
• Summer Phoenix as Brandy

[edit] Salt Lake City

The entire film was shot on location in Salt Lake City because the directors wanted the title to coincide with the location. Numerous scenes took place in locally well-known areas:

• Stevo's high school, which he calls "Southeast High", is actually West High School and is near downtown Salt Lake City.
• The scene wherein Heroin Bob chastises Stevo for using LSD takes place atop Presidents Circle at the University of Utah.
• Stevo introduces the "poseurs" and gives his "Who Started Punk Rock?" speech at the Cottonwood mall.
• Stevo and Sandy drop acid at Memory Grove Park, a World War I memorial park.
• Many exterior street scenes occur just north of the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse in the downtown area.
• The ECP concert was shot at the SLC Indian Center.
• The scenes depicting Heroin Bob's Funeral were shot inside and outside The Cathedral of the Madeleine. The cathedral is located just east of downtown Salt Lake City.
• The apartment that Stevo and Heroin Bob lived was the Big D Construction building, Across from Pioneer Park.

[edit] The tribes

The film features several cliques known as "tribes" in the film. The film focuses primarily on the punk tribe, but includes several other tribes as well:

• Punks: Stevo, Bob, Sean, and Mike belong to this tribe, although Mike doesn't dress the part. The punks are rivals of the mods, Nazis and rednecks.
• Mods: Mods wear suits and ties, and they ride scooters. They're generally the rivals of the punks, but the character John the Mod acts as a diplomat who freely moves between the tribes. In the beginning of the movie, the mods are trying to buy acid from Sean.
• Rednecks: Rednecks are rural Utah folk who wear blue jeans and flannel, and drive around in big trucks. Punks dislike them for their conservative values.
• Nazis: Nazis are white power skinheads who wear pseudo-military fatigues and Nazi armbands. Punks and mods are shown to be predatory towards the Nazis.
• The Heavy metal Guys: They have long hair and flannel. Not much else is known about them, except that Stevo explains that Nazis were predatory towards them.
• New Wavers: They are people who dress like New Romantics and are said to be the least threatening of the tribes. They are described as being "the new hippies." Every Tribe is predatory to the New Wavers.

[edit] Soundtrack

SLC Punk!
Soundtrack by Various
Released	March 16, 1999
Genre	Punk rock
Label	Hollywood Records

1. "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" - The Suicide Machines (originally performed by Lynn Anderson)
2. "Sex and Violence" - The Exploited
3. "I Love Livin' in the City" - Fear
4. "1969" - The Stooges
5. "Too Hot" - The Specials
6. "Cretin Hop" - Ramones
7. "Dreaming" - Blondie
8. "Kiss Me Deadly" - Generation X
9. "Rock N' Roll" - The Velvet Underground
10. "Gasoline Rain" - Moondogg
11. "Mirror in the Bathroom" - Fifi (originally performed by The English Beat)
12. "Amoeba" - The Adolescents
13. "Kill the Poor" - Dead Kennedys
14. "Look Back and Laugh" - Minor Threat

Eight Bucks Experiment, the band portraying fictional English band ECP, were featured on a European release of the soundtrack.^[3] The three songs they recorded live for the punk concert scene were sent back to the band after filming. They self released the songs on the One Of These Days EP through their Blue Moon Recordings label website.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ "SUMMER FILMS: INDIES; Festival to Festival, a Movable Marketplace," New York Times, Sunday, May 2, 1999
2. ^ Chris Hicks (2003-08-08). "S.L.-filmed 'Punk!' becomes a cult classic". Deseret News. p. W05. 
3. ^ http://bluemoonrecordings.com/8discography.html

punk in love

PUNK IN LOVE

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Diawali oleh percobaan bunuh diri yang menghebohkan kota Malang, empat anak Punk, Arok (Vino G. Bastian), Yoji (Andhika Pratama), Mojo (Yogi Finanda), dan Almira (Aulia Sarah) tanpa pikir panjang memutuskan untuk pergi ke Jakarta untuk menyatakan cinta pada seorang cewek pujaan. Dengan modal hati dan rambut jigrak kebanggaan, perjalanan sepanjang pulau Jawa yang maunya biasa malah jadi luar biasa.
Kebanjiran, kejar-kejaran dengan bis maut di sepanjang jalur Pantura, berantem dengan tukang sate, dan seabrek petualangan konyol tapi seru akhirnya dilakoni di sepanjang jalan. Bromo, Cepu, Pati, Semarang, Cirebon, jadi saksi jungkir-baliknya anak-anak Punk ini mempertahankan idealismenya, sekaligus membuka jati diri mereka satu demi satu: rambut boleh jigrak tapi hati tetep... dangdut!
Tayang di bioskop mulai 9 Juli 2009, Punk in Love siap menjungkir balik penonton dengan tawa!

Jenis Film :

Comedy

Produser :

Raam Punjabi

Produksi :

Mvp Pictures

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Cast & Crew

Pemain :

Vino G. Bastian
Andhika Pratama
Yogi Finanda
Aulia Sarah
Catherine Wilson
Davina Veronica

Sutradara :

Ody C. Harahap












romper stomper

Romper Stomper

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Romper Stomper
Original cinema daybill for Romper Stomper
Directed by	Geoffrey Wright
Written by	Geoffrey Wright
Starring	Russell Crowe Daniel Pollock Jacqueline McKenzie Tony Lee
Music by	John Clifford White
Distributed by	Village Roadshow
Release date(s)	November 14, 1992 (premier at the Sydney Film Festival) May 10, 1993 (premier at the Seattle International Film Festival) September 16, 1992 (premier at the Toronto Film Festival)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

Romper Stomper is a 1992 Australian film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie and Tony Lee. The film follows the exploits and downfall of a neo-Nazi skinhead group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Origin 3 Soundtrack 4 Awards 5 Tragedy 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Plot

The film opens with a gang of violent neo-Nazi skinheads from Footscray, Victoria, Australia attacking some Asian teenagers in a subway tunnel. The gang, which is led by Hando (Russell Crowe) and his friend Davey (Daniel Pollock), meets a rich drug addict Gabrielle (Jacqueline McKenzie), who falls in love with Hando after meeting him the day after her sexually abusive father, Martin (Alex Scott), has her junkie boyfriend beaten up.
A few skinheads visit from Canberra, one of which has joined the Royal Australian Navy and is home on leave. After a long night of drinking, fighting and sex, the gang go to their local pub. But unbeknown to them the owner has sold it to a Vietnamese business man. When Hando and his gang discover the new owner's two sons in the bar they begin to savagely beat them. A third Vietnamese youth phones for help, and several car-loads of armed Vietnamese men descend on the skinheads. The Vietnamese men outnumber the skinheads in both numbers and brutality; forcing them to retreat to their rented warehouse, in which the Vietnamese relentlessly attacked and destroyed everything inside the building, then finally setting it on fire. Most of the skinhead group is presumably killed in the fights.
The skinheads find a new base at a nearby warehouse after scaring off a pair of squatters, and plan their revenge against the Vietnamese. Upon hearing the idea of using a gun to get revenge, two members of the group end up leaving. Later Gabrielle suggests that the gang burgle her father's mansion. They ransack the house, beating Martin up, smashing one of his cars and raiding his wine collection. Gabrielle tells Martin that the burglary is revenge for his years of abuse. Later she reveals to Davey her plan to take Hando away from his violent life. Martin eventually frees himself and uses a handgun to scare away the gang before they can take any of his property.
The next morning, Hando argues with Gabrielle and dumps her. As she storms off, Davey stops her and gives her the address of his grandmother, where he will be staying. She goes to a nearby phone booth and makes an anonymous call to the police, and then spends the night with Davey. Later the police raid the warehouse, killing the youngest skinhead when he waves a non-working gun at them and arresting the rest of the skinhead gang. Hando, who is away from the rest of the group, watches from a distance and flees.
Arriving at Davey's flat, Hando finds his friend in bed with Gabrielle. Hando accuses her of selling them out, but Davey provides her with the alibi that they were together the whole time. Hando convinces Davey to stick by him, and the trio go on the run. During a service station robbery, Hando murders the attendant.
Driving all night, they stop near the Twelve Apostles. Gabrielle misinterprets a conversation between Hando and Davey to mean they are going to leave her behind, and sets their car on fire. She also admits to phoning the police. Hando attacks her, leading Davey to fight Hando and stab him in the neck with his Hitler Youth knife that he was given by an older skinhead earlier in the film, killing him. The film ends with Davey cradling Gabrielle on the beach, watched by a busload of Japanese tourists while Hando's bloody corpse gazes at the ocean.

[edit] Origin

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Geoffrey Wright's script was inspired by the highly publicised crimes of leading Melbourne Neo-Nazi skinhead Dane Sweetman. Wright contacted Sweetman via mail in 1991. Sweetman was at that time in the process of serving a life sentence in Pentridge Prison for murder. Wright requested an interview with Sweetman which was unable to be arranged in a timely manner due to prison regulations, subsequently the two men commenced correspondence. Sweetman furnished Wright with a transcript of his murder trial, from which Wright drew influence. This influence is most clearly seen in the line delivered by Hando when scaring off squatters from the warehouse: "I'm going to chop your legs off". It is a direct reference to Sweetman having cut off the legs of his victim.
There are many aspects of the film that mirrored Sweetman's life, including the characters Gabrielle, Davey and the punk girls who were all based on associates of Sweetman. Sweetman's name was conspicuously absent in the end credits, however the question was raised in the Australian media during the publicity phase of promoting the film. Russell Crowe acknowledged the origin of his character during an interview on Tonight Live with Steve Vizard in 1992. Wright also spoke of the influence during a radio interview in the same year.

[edit] Soundtrack

The film's score was released by Picture This Records. It included the orchestral music and the energetic punk rock music similar to the Oi! genre (recorded by studio musicians).

• 1. Prologue
• 2. Romper Stomper Theme
• 3. Pulling on the Boots
• 4. Skinheads Go Shopping/Gabe Sees Swastika
• 5. Mein Kampf
• 6. Fuehrer Fuehrer
• 7. Let's Break Some Fingers/Brawl Crawl
• 8. Smack Song, The
• 9. Torqauy for the Skins/Nightmare for the Hippies
• 10. At the Mansion
• 11. We Came to Wreck Everything
• 12. Wild Animals 1
• 13. Bubs Dead/Gabe Finds Davey
• 14. Gabe and Davey
• 15. Fourth Reich Fighting Men
• 16. Night Drive
• 17. On the Beach
• 18. Wild Animals 2
• 19. Fourth Reich Fighting Men (Reprise)
• 20. The Dead Nazi March

Dari Jemapoh ke Manchester


Sudah tonton Dari Jemapoh Ke Manchestee? Hujung minggu lepas saya ke TGV KLCC. Jumlah penonton kurang separuh dari tempat duduk keseluruhan. Tak ramai, tak sikit. Filem bermula... saya rasa semua penonton (atau sekurang-kurangnya saya seorang) tak pasti apa yg akan diputarkan ke layar sebentar lagi. Kredit ditayangkan. Penonton masih tertanya-tanya. Semuanya macam serius menanti... senyap, tiada muzik. Tamat kredit pengenalan.. adegan awal di kampung: Yadi memang kelakar, fanatik sungguh dengan Manchestee Uni-ted. Penonton mula 'menerima' Jemapoh. Yadi merancang untuk ke Manchester, 'bukan jauh sangat pun' katanya kepada Mafiz. Kepala Mafiz terpotong.. filem terkeluar dari layar di bahagian atas. Mafiz lebih tinggi dari Yadi, kepalanya terpotong. Dan lagi, adegan di 'gig': penonton tidak tahu rupa Kassim Selamat yang sedang menyanyi bersama kumpulan Carburetor Dung. Semua yang di atas terpotong. OK, kembali kepada filem.. filem ni memang menarik, sungguh menarik sebenarnya.. walaupun tak ramai pelakon dan rasa kosong (kecuali segerombolan Mat Motor berbaju hitam) sepanjang filem, muzik dan lagu latar nyata memberi nafas kepada Jemapoh begitu juga dengan dialog berkesan dan lakonan yang hidup. Sampai satu ketika, semua penonton mahu sebut "cool, brader!!". Tak rugi menanti beberapa tahun dengan bayaran RM10. Saya akan menonton lagi (entah bila..).
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tentang DARI JEMAPOH KE MANCHESTEE
oleh Saharil Sanin

Lembaga Penapisan Filem tidak reti baca apa yang tersirat, serupalah dengan men-in-black yang menjaga penerbitan, mereka cuma reti baca permukaan sahaja. Kerana itulah, filem2, teater2, penulisan2 sekarang ini, kalau mahu mengkritik pemerintah (atau pembangkang), kena menerap berlapis-lapis. Dalam filem Hishamudin Rais ini, LPF cuma tapis dialog2, contohnya, perkataan 'palat' dibuang, dan dibuang juga bahagian bila satu watak tu cakap: "Mat Salleh tahu ke cakap orang putih untuk perkataan pukimak".

Filem ini adalah pasal Yadi dan Mafis, dua orang kawan baik, anak negeri sembilan yang sudah bosan dengan hidup di Jemapoh, satu kampung di NS. Yadi ada infatuation pada George Best (footballer, Manchester United, "George Best tu jambu kan?") dan Mafis mahu cari ayah dia (sailor, Liverpool, "Kau rasa dia dah anu dengan mat salleh ke?") - jadi dengan dua motivasi itu, mereka pun pinjam ("aku tak curi, aku pinjam") kereta Haji Salleh, untuk ke Manchester.

Di dalam perjalanan, mereka kemudiannya berjumpa dengan Lini, penyanyi sebuah grup punk, yang ada girlfriend di Jerman ("Manchester tu dekat Jerman kan?") dan Mila, yang paling cerdik antara mereka ("Tak, saya bukan maksiat! Saya.. Mila.. Mila binti Saleh") Jadi ini cerita penggembaraan mereka ke Manchester, melalui beberapa insiden. Semua orang mahu mencari sesuatu - semua orang sebenarnya sedang melarikan diri daripada sesuatu.

Kita mahu escape dari kongkongan hidup kita, kita mahu satu cara untuk membantu eskapisme kita. Kita sudah jelik dengan rutin yang sama, menjadikan kita makin lama makin malas, dan kita mahu sesuatu yang baru, sesuatu yang lain daripada apa yang kita alami. Tetapi kita terkongkong, kita tak ada cara. Kita tak ada duit dan kepakaran. Kita tidur malam-malam dan kita bermimpi jin yang kita boleh minta macam-macam darinya. Kita bangun dan kita hadapi rutin suram kita kembali. Kita tidur malam dan kita mimpi kita sedang terbang dan kita rasa bebas.

Terbang : Ini adalah metafor yang paling menyentuh dalam filem2 eskapisme, aku rasa digunakan, antara yang paling baik, dalam E.T, filem spielberg itu, ketika Elliot dan makhluk asing itu terbang menaiki basikal ketika dikejar oleh polis. Kemudian filem Thelma and Louise, part-part akhirnya. Dalam filem La Vie En Rose (french), budak kecil yang terseksa (oleh fikiran konservatif keluarganya) membayangkan dia terbang, dan dia boleh nampak rumahnya. Dalam buku A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, watak utamanya terbang dengan adik dia, kerana tidak sanggup lagi melihat emak mereka terseksa oleh barah.

Filem ini adalah filem eskapisme. Watak-watak utamanya mempunyi masalah2 masing-masing, tetapi mereka naif, dan mereka tidak tahu apa yang mereka buat. Cuma mereka muda dan mereka ada tenaga, jadi bagi mereka, semuanya cerah - dan setiap aral yang melintang, mereka boleh terjah saja. Ini serupa dengan perjuangan yang terkongkong - kalau kita tidak boleh bergerak dengan kebenaran authority, kita bergerak di bawah tanah, dan di sana segala-galanya gelap - dan kita tak nampak apa yang kita lakukan, kita membuta tuli sahaja, dengan harapan segala-galanya akan selesai nanti.

Filem ini, bak kata pengarah, adalah dalam genre Road Movie (Easy Rider, contoh yang selalu diguna. Thelma and Louise, yang paling aku suka. Yang lebih unorthodoks adalah Kalifornia, dan Natural Born Kilers). Dan tentulah, muzik, mengambil peranan penting. Filem ini menggunakan 25 lagu yang dipesan khas dari band2 underground malaysia (Carruretor Dung, Republic of Brickfields, Babushka, dan Koffin Kanser - mereka semua tidak dibayar) dan satu lagu lama, "La O Be" oleh Kassim Slamat (grup The Swallows) menjadi tema filem ini. Khabarnya = "Jangan perkecil lagu tema filem ini, La O Be pernah menjuarai senarai lagu popular di salah sebuah stesen radio di Hamburg selama tiga minggu"

Pelakon2 dalam filem ini tidak terkenal. Tetapi semua lakonannya boleh diterima, tidaklah kaku, (2000 orang telah diaudition) - yang lebih menceriakan sebenarnya, adalah para pelakon extra di dalam filem ini, mereka2 yang kita temui di dalam perjalanan. Dari pakcik polis kepada makcik kedai makan. Kita sayang semua mereka. Pakej filem ini lengkap - dari skrip ke layar semunya cemerlang. Set lokasi dan cinematography (Azman Razali) begitu terperinci dan jelas dan cahayanya sempurna dan penuh dengan warna, aku rasa Seri Dewi Malam (yang menang best cinematography pada anugerah ahad lepas) pun ketinggalan jauh.

Sebenarnya, kita sangat beruntung filem ini wujud. Sekurang-kurangnya kita dapat rasa yang ada juga filem2 yang kita boleh banggakan akhir-akhir ini (ok, filem ini usianya sudah empat tahun). Kalau tidak terpaksalah kita menerima Z Lokman sahaja (apa jadi pada Z Lokman, bukankah Azam, filem dia lama dulu, serius?)

Kata Pengarah: "Filem ini untuk semua anak muda, yang telah, yang sedang, dan yang bakal menempuhi alam belia yang sarat warna."

Ya. Anak-anak muda deserve no less.

NOTA filemkita: ulasan di atas dicilok daripada website saharil.tripod.com pada 16 Ogos 2001, dan disiarkan semula tanpa kebenaran.

3 Ogos 2001
Istimewa untuk ahli filemelayu, saya telah upload petikan dialog filem JEMAPOH dalam bentuk fail audio format MP3 ke dalam group filemelayu (ruangan Files). Sekiranya tidak berjaya download, pergi ke pawagam dan tonton sendiri! ATAU baca dialognya di sini.

http://www.artsee.net/jemapoh/
(Laman web rasmi DJKM. Terdapat juga lagu-lagu soundtrack MP3 untuk download, dan juga wallpaper dan banyak lagi! Cantik).

30 Julai 2001
Filem Dari Jemapoh Ke Manchestee (DJKM) akan ditayangkan mulai 2 Ogos ini di empat buah pawagam terpilih (lihat Diari Filem). DJKM yang dihasilkan pada tahun 1996 memulakan tayangan perdananya di Festival Filem Antarabangsa Singapura pada tahun 1998. Seterusnya filem hasil ilham dan arahan Hishamuddin Rais itu telah menjelajah ke seluruh dunia melalui pelbagai Festival Filem Antarabangsa malah turut ditayangkan di Perancis sempena kejohanan Piala Dunia '98 yang lalu. Tahun 2000, DJKM ditayangkan kepada umum di pawagam terpilih sekitar Singapura. Kini DJKM pulang ke tanahairnya, kejayaan terbesarnya setakat ini. Penantian anda telah berakhir. Saksikan!

Hari Ahad lepas, petikan filem Dari Jemapoh Ke Manchestee (DJKM) disiarkan dalam rancangan Melodi (TV3). Juga disiarkan temubual dengan penerbit DJKM iaitu Halim Sabir (pakai topi MU) dan juga penulis sarikata (subtitle) bahasa inggeris Amir Muhammad. Setakat ini tiada publisiti diberikan kepada filem ini oleh akhbar-akhbar perdana. DJKM akan ditayangkan mulai 2 Ogos ini (Khamis) di Kuala Lumpur (TGV KLCC & GSC Midvalley). Jangan ketinggalan! Hujung minggu ini saya akan ke Jemapoh.. err.. maksud saya ke Kuala Lumpur untuk menonton 'Jemapoh'. Jumpa di sana..

Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy

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Sid and Nancy
Original US film poster for Sid and Nancy.
Directed by	Alex Cox
Produced by	Eric Fellner
Written by	Alex Cox Abbe Wool
Starring	Gary Oldman Chloe Webb David Hayman Debby Bishop Andrew Schofield
Cinematography	Roger Deakins
Distributed by	Samuel Goldwyn Company
Release date(s)	November 7, 1986 (USA)
Running time	112 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$4,000,000

Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills^[1][2]) is a 1986 British film directed by Alex Cox. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious, bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols. It stars Gary Oldman as Vicious and Chloe Webb as his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 4.1 Acclaim 4.2 Criticism 4.2.1 John Lydon's reaction 5 Soundtrack 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Plot

The film opens with several police officers dragging a distressed Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) out of the Chelsea Hotel. On the way out reporters relentlessly pursue Sid, asking him why he did it, Sid telling them off in reply. Vicious is soon driven to a police station and upon arrival is asked to describe what has happened to him up to this point and if he was the one who called the police. Sid recounts the details of what happened in his life.
A few years earlier, Sid and John Lydon (Andrew Schofield) are shown smashing the windows of a car until a small black puppy is shown to be inside. Lydon jokingly provokes Sid to "slay the beast," but Sid instead pets the dog's head and they leave the ruined car behind with the dog looking on in confusion.

[edit] Cast

• Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious
• Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen
• David Hayman as Malcolm McLaren
• Debby Bishop as Phoebe
• Andrew Schofield as Johnny Rotten
• Xander Berkeley as Bowery Snax, drug dealer
• Courtney Love as Gretchen
• Perry Benson as Paul Cook
• Tony London as Steve Jones

[edit] Production

The film is largely based on the mutually destructive, drug-and-sex filled relationship between Vicious and Spungen. Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley, initially tried to prevent the movie from being made. After meeting with Cox, however, she decided to help the production. Some of the supporting characters are composites, invented to streamline the plot.
Oldman lost weight to play the emaciated Vicious by eating nothing but "steamed fish and lots of melon," but was briefly hospitalized when he lost too much weight. Vicious' mother also gave Oldman Vicious' own trademark heavy metal chain and padlock to wear in the film.
Courtney Love recorded an infamous video audition in which she exclaimed "I am Nancy Spungen." Cox was impressed by Love's audition, but has said the film's investors insisted on an experienced actress for the co-leading role. Cox would later cast Love as one of the leads in his movie Straight to Hell. Instead Love was cast in the relatively minor role of Gretchen (a part that Cox wrote specifically for her benefit), one of Sid and Nancy's New York junkie friends. Somewhat ironically, Love would be compared to Spungen later in life on account of her marriage to Kurt Cobain.
In his 2007 autobiography, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash revealed that the casting director hired all five members of Guns & Roses as extras for a club scene, having coincidentally scouted them in different locations without their knowledge. He said "all of us showed up to the first day of casting, like 'Hey...what are you doing here?'" However, Slash was the only one in the group to stay the entire shoot.
Webb and Oldman improvised the dialogue heard in the scene leading up to Spungen's death, but based it on interviews and other materials available to them. The stabbing scene is fictionalized and based only on conjecture. Cox told the New Musical Express: "We wanted to make the film not just about Sid Vicious and punk rock, but as an anti-drugs statement, to show the degradation caused to various people is not at all glamorous."
The original music is by Pray for Rain, Joe Strummer and The Pogues. The film was rated R in the USA for drug use, language, violence, sexuality and nudity. Prominent musicians made appearances in the film, including: Iggy Pop, The Circle Jerks, and Edward Tudor-Pole, of Tenpole Tudor. The film was originally titled Love Kills.

[edit] Reception

[edit] Acclaim

Sid and Nancy received generally positive reviews from critics. From the reviews collected from notable publications by popular review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an overall approval rating of 90%.^[3] Roger Ebert gave Sid and Nancy four-out-of-four in his review for The Chicago Sun-Times, writing that Cox and his crew "pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it.^[4][5] In a subsequent article on Gary Oldman, Ebert referred to the movie's titular couple as "Punk Rock's Romeo and Juliet."^[6]
In his book Sid Vicious: Rock N' Roll Star, Malcolm Butt describes Webb's performance as Spungen as "intense, powerful, and most important of all, believable." Oldman's portrayal of Vicious was ranked #62 in Premiere magazine's "100 Greatest Performances of All Time".^[7] Issue #117 of Uncut magazine (February 2007) ranked Gary Oldman as #8 in its "10 Best actors in rockin' roles" list, describing his portrayal as a "hugely sympathetic reading of the punk figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild."^[8]

[edit] Criticism

Not all reviews of the film were positive. Leslie Halliwell had little praise for the movie: "Some have said stimulating, most have preferred revolting. Consensus, an example of the dregs to which cinema has been reduced." He also cited a line from a review that appeared in Sight & Sound: "Relentlessly whingeing performances and a lengthy slide into drugs, degradation and death make this a solemnly off-putting moral tract."^[9]
Andrew Schofield was ranked #1 in Uncut magazine's "10 Worst actors in rockin' roles" describing his performance as Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten (real name John Lydon) as a "short-arse Scouse Bleasdale regular never once looking like he means it, maaan."^[8] Commentary on the Criterion DVD dismisses the film's portrayal of Lydon as wholly inaccurate. Paul Simonon of The Clash also criticised the movie for its portrayal of Lydon:

“

People have the wrong idea of [Lydon] -- like some sort of fat, beer-slurping idiot like in that Alex Cox film. That pissed me off, making him look like an idiot...John has a fantastic wit, a wicked sense of humour."[10]

”

[edit] John Lydon's reaction

Lydon commented on the movie in his 1994 autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs:

"I cannot understand why anyone would want to put out a movie like Sid and Nancy and not bother to speak to me; Alex Cox, the director, didn’t. He used as his point of reference - of all the people on this earth - Joe Strummer! That guttural singer from The Clash? What the fuck did he know about Sid and Nancy? That’s probably all he could find, which was really scraping the bottom of the barrel. The only time Alex Cox made any approach toward me was when he sent the chap who was playing me over to New York where I was. This actor told me he wanted to talk about the script. During the two days he was there, he told me that the film had already been completed. The whole thing was a sham. It was a ploy to get my name used in connection with the film, in order to support it."
"To me this movie is the lowest form of life. I honestly believe that it celebrates heroin addiction. It definitely glorifies it at the end when that stupid taxi drives off into the sky. That's such nonsense. The squalid New York hotel scenes were fine, except they needed to be even more squalid. All of the scenes in London with the Pistols were nonsense. None bore any sense of reality. The chap who played Sid, Gary Oldman, I thought was quite good. But even he only played the stage persona as opposed to the real person. I don’t consider that Gary Oldman's fault because he’s a bloody good actor. If only he had the opportunity to speak to someone who knew the man. I don’t think they ever had the intent to research properly in order to make a seriously accurate movie. It was all just for money, wasn't it? To humiliate somebody’s life like that - and very successfully - was very annoying to me. The final irony is that I still get asked questions about it. I have to explain that it's all wrong. It was all someone else’s fucking fantasy, some Oxford graduate who missed the punk rock era. The bastard."
"When I got back to London, they invited me to a screening. So I went to see it and was utterly appalled. I told Alex Cox, which was the first time I met him, that he should be shot, and he was quite lucky I didn't shoot him. I still hold him in the lowest light. Will the real Sid please stand up?"
"As for how I was portrayed, well, there's no offense in that. It was so off and ridiculous. It was absurd. Champagne and baked beans for breakfast? Sorry. I don't drink champagne. He didn't even speak like me. He had a Scouse accent. Worse, there's a slur implied in the movie that I was jealous of Nancy, which I find particularly loathsome. There is that implication that I feel was definitely put there. I guess that’s Alex Cox showing his middle class twittery. It’s all too glib, it’s all too easy."^[11]

Strummer claims to have met with Alex Cox for the first time after the completion of the film, at a wrap party,^[12] but this is not entirely accurate. The wrap party was actually the conclusion of the London phase of the filming, which was followed by filming in Los Angeles and New York City, performed by a largely different crew. ^[13] The pair's meeting involved discussion over soundtrack work for the film, not the film's script.
In a later interview, Lydon was asked the question, "Did the movie get anything right?" to which he replied: "Maybe the name Sid."^[14] Cox's attitude toward his subjects was indeed unapologetically negative, writing that "Sid had sold out, contributed nothing of value, died an idiot."^[13] Cox went on to say that one of the reasons he was attracted to the project was that he was afraid that if someone else made it, it would portray its subjects as "real exemplars of Punk like I am; rather than sold-out traitors to it."^[13] He acknowledged that Lydon's hatred of the movie was "understandable, given that it was based on incidents from his life and centered around one of his friends."^[15] The other remaining Pistols have been far less outspoken about the movie than Lydon, although Lydon claimed that Paul Cook was more upset over the movie than he was. ^[16]
Both Alex Cox and Andrew Schofield (who played Lydon in the film) did, in fact, meet with Lydon before the filming of the movie. According to Cox, Lydon noticed that Schofield was, like Cox, a Liverpudlian, rather than a Londoner like Lydon, and encouraged him to play the part as a Scouser rather than a Londoner. Cox took this as a sign that both of them agreed that it would be better to portray a more fictionalized version of the characters rather than a cold re-telling of facts. Cox noted that Lydon drank large quantities at these meetings, which may explain why Lydon did not recall them. Contrary to Lydon's claims, his meeting with Schofield was not after the film's completion, but rather before Andrew had even been given the part. He was offered the part the next day.^[13]

[edit] Soundtrack

The official soundtrack contains no songs sung by either the Sex Pistols or Sid Vicious.

Song	Artist
"Love Kills" (Title Track)	Joe Strummer
"Haunted"	The Pogues
"Pleasure and Pain"	Steve Jones
"Chinese Choppers"	Pray for Rain
"Love Kills"	Circle Jerks
"Off the Boat"	Pray for Rain
"Dum Dum Club"	Joe Strummer
"Burning Room"	Pray for Rain
"She Never Took No for an Answer"	John Cale
"Junk"	The Pogues
"I Wanna Be Your Dog"	Gary Oldman
"My Way"	Gary Oldman
"Taxi to Heaven"	Pray for Rain

Much of the actual film's soundtrack (as opposed to soundtrack album) was composed by Joe Strummer. Strummer was contractually limited to contribute only two songs, and was paid for only two songs, but continued to contribute more work after this, because of his interest in the project and composing for film in general. This additional material was credited to fictitious bands in the credits, so as to keep Strummer's label, Epic, from knowing what they had done. Another large portion of the music was composed by The Pogues.^[13]

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/releaseinfo
2. ^ http://lovekillssite.webs.com/Sid%20And%20Nancy%20Cover.jpg
3. ^ Sid & Nancy Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
4. ^ Sid & Nancy
5. ^ Roger Ebert's Four Star Movie Guide by Roger Ebert. (1988, Andrews & McMeel) p.280.
6. ^ Roger Ebert's Four Star Movie Guide by Roger Ebert. (1988, Andrews & McMeel) p.383.
7. ^ Listology: Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time
8. ^ ^{a b} Uncut magazine, issue #117, February 2007
9. ^ Halliwell's Film Guide: 11th Edition by Leslie Halliwell, edited by John Walker. (1995, HarperCollins) p.1033.
10. ^ 3am Interview: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL SIMONON
11. ^ Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon, with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. (1994, Hodder & Staughton Ltd) pp.150-151.
12. ^ DEATH OF A PUNK - JOE STRUMMER (1952-2002) Clash co-founder dies of heart attack. :: hightimes.com
13. ^ ^{a b c d e} Cox, Alex (2008). X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Soft Skull Press. pp. 96. ISBN (10) 1-59376-193-7. 
14. ^ Rotten to the Core: An Interview With John Lydon
15. ^ Alex Cox - SID & NANCY
16. ^ Fodderstompf | Press Archives | Cut Magazine, November 1987

Rock School

Rock School

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For the documentary about an actual school of rock music, see Rock School (film). For the educational TV program featuring Herbie Hancock, see Rockschool. For the Jack Black movie, see School of Rock

Rock School
Format	Reality, Documentary
Created by	RDF Media
Starring	Gene Simmons
Country of origin	UK
No. of episodes	6 (Series 1) 4 (Series 2)
Production
Running time	30 minutes* (Series 1) 1 hour* (Series 2) *including commercials
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	August 19, 2005 – February 19, 2006

Rock School (also known as Gene Simmons' Rock School) is a British reality TV series starring Gene Simmons (from the band Kiss), in which he has a short time to turn a class of school children into a fully fledged rock band, at the end of which they must perform in a supporting slot for a leading rock band.
Rock School is made by British production company RDF Media and has been shown on Channel 4 in the UK, RTL 7 in the Netherlands, Channel Ten and Channel V in Australia, TVNZ's TV2 in New Zealand, VH-1 in the United States and Latin America, TV2 Zebra in Norway, Nelonen in Finland, TV4 in Sweden, Much Music in Canada, Vitaya in Belgium and ORF1 in Austria.
A comedy film with a similar theme, starring Jack Black, called School of Rock, was released in 2003, before the first series began although the creative team and Gene Simmons insist that it was not because of the success of that film they made it, and say it was in the works since 2002.^{[citation needed]}
Since series 2, Simmons seems not to be planning any more series as of yet, due to commitments with KISS, but he may very well do another as Channel 4 have kept their page about the show.

Contents [hide] 1 Series one 1.1 Series one controversies 2 Series two 2.1 Series two controversies 3 External links

[edit] Series one

The first series was broadcast in the autumn of 2005 and took place at Christ's Hospital school in England. The chosen class of Year 9 students were all classically trained and it is insinuated that they had no interest in rock music.
The band consisted of Josh Bell (also known as "The Emperor") as lead singer, Dudley Beal ("Dudders") as drummer, Jesse Newton ("Bagpuss") as guitarist, Kwamé Asiedu ("Mr. Cool") on keyboards and bassist Camilla Biggs (who refused to have a "rock name"). Stylists were Fiona Musson ("FiFi") and Frances Scott ("Francis"), while the stage managers were Lucian and Richard White ("Mr White"). On 21 October, the manager, Rodney Serunjogi ("Rods"), revealed the band's name to be "The Class". After an initially difficult start the band successfully played to a crowd of Motörhead fans at the Hammersmith Apollo.
The highlight of the programme was arguably Josh, "The Emperor", so named because of his love of the game Warhammer. The 13-year-old sparked plenty of controversy among his fellow classmates as his weird antics made him an outsider. A fluent speaker of Elvish and learning Klingon by the end of the series, Josh is completely tone deaf but was chosen by Simmons for his determination and perseverance. Completely transformed by the experience, Josh saw himself as a rock god by the end of filming and had even grown his hair in homage to Brian May which irritated his fellow classmates as they thought his arrogance got the better of him.

[edit] Series one controversies

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The first series of Rock School was received with mixed response from students at Christ's Hospital. Many pupils objected to the manner in which the programme was cast and edited. RDF specifically overlooked pupils who auditioned that were already in rock bands, in favour of those who better fitted the stereotype of boarding school pupils. As a result the programme does not give an accurate portrayal of pupils at the school. The programme repeatedly claims that pupils at the school have no interest in Rock music, going as far as suggesting that pupils actively hate it. Many pupils consider this to be a lie given the annual rock concert and talent shows, as well as weekly discos and the large amounts of pupils in bands of their own, with some going on to be signed by major labels. Gene Simmons was also poorly received by pupils, at one point throwing fish at the face of another pupil. Despite Gene Simmons insisting that the show wasn't made because of the success of the movie School of Rock, "Mr. Cool" is the same name of the keyboard player in both shows - though at no point did the band watch the film, and the rock names were chosen before the band membership was assigned.

[edit] Series two

Following strong international sales for the first series, a second series began filming in October 2005 at Kirkley Community High School in Lowestoft, Suffolk and began airing on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on Sunday January 29, 2006. A new twist to this series was that instead of classically trained musicians, Simmons was working with students from a comprehensive school. Unlike the first series the pupils were from year 11 rather than year 9. Their task at the end of the series would be to open for Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, and Anthrax in Long Beach.
In the first episode we meet Chris Hardman, also known as "Lil' Chris" (due to his diminutive stature), who can sing , play guitar, drum, and write songs. At the end of the first episode he goes on holiday with his family, causing Simmons to appoint Ellie Chapman as the replacement vocalist. The band, then "No Comment" and consisting of Ellie (vocals), Samanie Warren (guitar), Lindsey Rose (bass), Jess (keyboards) and Sammi Reeve (drums) spend the second episode preparing for their first gig, where they played to an audience of predominantly old age pensioners at a local bowls club, as well as worrying about their positions in the band upon Chris's return. Episode two also features Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who was brought in by Simmons to inspire the group. Rob Batch and Lewis were managers
In the third episode, the band hold auditions for a backup drummer in light of Sammi's volatile temper and tendency to walk out on them. These auditions were open to both class members and select non-members as well. Simmons chooses an outsider Lauren Pashley, raising the suspicion that he was looking to form an all-girl band. They go on tour with Chris and Ellie taking turns on vocals, but neither impresses Simmons, putting both of their positions into doubt. On the second show of the tour, the band were promised they would get to play "My Generation" as an encore with Ellie singing, but Simmons felt they had not sufficiently impressed the crowd and did not warrant the encore. Suzi Quatro also features in episode three, showing Lindsey some techniques on the bass guitar. As part of their final preparations the band gave a live performance in Golden Cross, Coventry.
In the final episode Simmons reveals the final line-up of the band, dropping an obviously devastated Ellie and opting for Chris, who he felt was more charismatic. He also renamed the band "Hoax UK", inspired by a slogan on Chris's cap. They successfully played their opening slot with their song "Kicking Off", written by Chris and classmate Rob:

I want to learn to fly, I want to climb so high, It's kicking off Bought a ticket out this hole, Play my rock and roll, We're kicking off Gonna take my life, Take My life to new levels, Going to shake it all up until my heart rate trebles

The lyrics may have been prophetic, as a week after the performance Chris was contacted by record producers Ray Hedges and Nigel Butler, who appeared in the show to help the class with songwriting. They worked with him on a song called "Checkin' It Out". The song was released as a single in September 2006 and reached at #3 in the UK Singles Chart, Chris then recently released an album in December 2006. The female members of the band, including Samanie, Ellie and Lauren formed a band of their own known as The Upraw. Lauren and Lily left the band but have been replaced by two new members Toni (Drums) and Katie (keyboard). They released a single called "Make My Way" in May 2006.[1]. According to the Upraw's website, Ellie and Katie have now left, with the three remaining members functioning as a three piece.

[edit] Series two controversies

• Although not mentioned in the programme, three members of rock band The Darkness attended Kirkley High School (the location of the second series). Allegedly, the band did not want to be associated with the programme as they felt it would portray the school negatively and in unfavorable contrast with the school shown in the first series.
• The school and the production company (RDF Media) clashed over filming methods.

• Children at the school were given the opportunity to prevent their faces being shown on television. However, the form was not distributed to the members of the 6th form at the school, which took students from two other local schools.

High Fidelity

High Fidelity (film)

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High Fidelity
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Directed by	Stephen Frears
Produced by	Tim Bevan Rudd Simmons
Written by	Nick Hornby (book) D.V. DeVincentis Steve Pink John Cusack Scott Rosenberg
Starring	John Cusack Iben Hjejle Jack Black Todd Louiso Catherine Zeta-Jones Lisa Bonet Sara Gilbert Lili Taylor and Joan Cusack
Music by	Howard Shore
Cinematography	Seamus McGarvey
Editing by	Mick Audsley
Studio	Working Title Films
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	March 31, 2000
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[1]
Gross revenue	$47,126,295 (worldwide)

High Fidelity is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the name of the lead character changed. After seeing the film, Hornby expressed his happiness with John Cusack's performance as Rob Gordon (changed from Rob Fleming in the book), saying, "At times, it appears to be a film in which John Cusack reads my book".^[2]

Contents [hide] 1 Plot summary 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Screenplay 3.2 Casting 4 Soundtrack 4.1 More music in the film 4.2 Songs mentioned in dialogue of film 5 Reaction 5.1 Reviews 5.2 Legacy 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links

[edit] Plot summary

The plot of High Fidelity centers on Rob Gordon (John Cusack), a self-confessed audiophile whose flair for understanding women is less than par for the course. After getting dumped by his current girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), he decides to look up some of his old flames in an attempt to figure out what he keeps doing wrong in his relationships.
He spends his days at his record store, Championship Vinyl, where he holds court over the customers that drift through. Helping Rob in his task of musical elitism are Dick (Todd Louiso) and Barry (Jack Black), the "musical moron twins," as he refers to them. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical, they compile "top five" lists for every conceivable occasion, openly mock the ignorance of their customers, and, every so often, actually sell a few records. Rob and the staff also have a strong dislike for two shoplifting skateboarding teenagers, Vince (Chris Rehmann) and Justin (Ben Carr). One day, he listens to a recording that they did and offers them a record deal, starting his own label called "Top 5 Records". During his off hours, he pines for his lost girlfriend Laura and does his best to win her back.

[edit] Cast

• John Cusack as Rob Gordon
• Iben Hjejle as Laura
• Jack Black as Barry
• Todd Louiso as Dick
• Joan Cusack as Liz
• Tim Robbins as Ian "Ray" Raymond
• Lisa Bonet as Marie DeSalle
• Catherine Zeta-Jones as Charlie Nicholson
• Chris Rehmann as Vince
• Ben Carr as Justin
• Lili Taylor as Sarah Kendrew
• Natasha Gregson Wagner as Caroline
• Sara Gilbert as Annaugh Moss
• Drake Bell as Young Rob Gordon
• Bruce Springsteen as Himself (cameo)
• Ian Williams as guy in record store (cameo)

[edit] Production

Nick Hornby's book was optioned by Disney's Touchstone Pictures in 1995 where it went into development for three years.^[3] Disney boss Joe Roth had a conversation with recording executive Kathy Nelson who recommended John Cusack and his writing and producing partners D.V. DeVincentis and Steve Pink adapt the book. She had worked previously with them on Grosse Pointe Blank and felt that they had the right sensibilities for the material.^[4] According to Cusack, DeVincentis is the closest to the record-obsessive characters in the film, owning 1,000 vinyl records and thousands of CDs and tapes.^[5] They wrote a treatment that was immediately greenlit by Roth.^[4]

[edit] Screenplay

The writers decided to change the book's setting from London to Chicago because they were more familiar with the city and it also had a "great alternative music scene", according to Pink.^[6] Cusack said, "When I read the book I knew where everything was in Chicago. I knew where the American Rob went to school and dropped out, where he used to spin records, I knew two or three different record shops when I was growing up that had a Rob, a Dick and a Barry in them".^[7] Charlotte Tudor, of the film's distributor, Buena Vista, said: "Chicago has the same feel as north London, there is a vibrant music scene, a lot of the action is set in smoky bars and, of course, there is the climate. But everyone, including Nick, felt that geography was not the central issue. It has a universal appeal".^[8]
Cusack found that the greatest challenge adapting the novel was pulling off Rob Gordon's frequent breaking of the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience.^[3] The screenwriters did this to convey Rob's inner confessional thoughts and were influenced by a similar technique in the Michael Caine film, Alfie.^[3] Cusack rejected this approach because he thought that "there'd just be too much of me".^[3] Once director Stephen Frears signed on to direct, he suggested using this technique and everyone agreed to use it.^[3]
Cusack and the other writers thought of the idea to have Rob have a conversation with Bruce Springsteen in his head, inspired by a reference in Hornby's book where the narrator wishes he could handle his past girlfriends as well as the musician does in the song, "Bobby Jean" on Born in the U.S.A..^[9] They never thought that they would actually get the musician to be in the film but that putting him in the script would get the studio excited about it.^[3] Cusack knew Springsteen socially and called the musician up and pitched the idea. Springsteen asked for a copy of the script and afterwards agreed to do it.^[3]

[edit] Casting

Frears was at the Berlin Film Festival and saw Mifune's Last Song starring Iben Hjejle and realized that he had found the actress for the role. The director read Hornby's book and enjoyed it but did not connect with the material because it was not about his generation.^[10] He accepted the job because he wanted to work with Cusack again (they had worked together previously on The Grifters) and liked the idea of changing the setting from London to Chicago.^[10] The director was also responsible for insisting on keeping Jack Black on as Barry.^[10] Frears has said that many people from the studio would come to watch his rushes.^[11]

[edit] Soundtrack

One of the challenges the screenwriters faced was figuring out which songs would go where in the film because Rob, Dick and Barry "are such musical snobs," according to Cusack.^[3] He and his screenwriting partners listened to 2,000 songs and picked 70 song cues.^[3]

High Fidelity (Music from the Motion Picture)
Soundtrack by Various artists
Released	May 28, 2000
Recorded	1999
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	65:01
Label	Hollywood
Professional reviews
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1. "You're Gonna Miss Me" - 13th Floor Elevators
2. "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" - The Kinks
3. "I'm Wrong About Everything" - John Wesley Harding
4. "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" - The Velvet Underground
5. "Always See Your Face" - Love
6. "Most of the Time" - Bob Dylan
7. "Fallen for You" - Sheila Nicholls
8. "Dry the Rain" - The Beta Band
9. "Shipbuilding" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
10. "Cold Blooded Old Times" - Smog
11. "Let's Get It On" - Barry Jive & The Uptown Five
12. "Lo Boob Oscillator" - Stereolab
13. "Inside Game" - Royal Trux
14. "Who Loves the Sun" - The Velvet Underground
15. "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)" - Stevie Wonder

[edit] More music in the film

Song	Performed by
"I Want Candy"	Bow Wow Wow
"Crocodile Rock"	Elton John
"Crimson and Clover"	Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
"Seymour Stein"	Belle & Sebastian
"Jacob's Ladder"	written by Rush, performed by Jack Black
"Walking on Sunshine"	Katrina & The Waves
"Baby Got Going"	Liz Phair
"Little Did I Know"	Brother JT3
"I Can't Stand the Rain"	Ann Peebles
"The River"	Bruce Springsteen
"Baby, I Love Your Way"	Written by Peter Frampton, performed by Lisa Bonet
"Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam"	The Vaselines
"On Hold"	Edith Frost
"Hyena 1"	Goldie
"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe"	Barry White
"Soaring & Boring"	Liam Hayes (a.k.a. Plush)
"Leave Home"	The Chemical Brothers
"Four to the Floor"	John Etkin-Bell
"Loopfest"	Tony Bricheno & Jan Cryka
"Robbin's Nest"	Illinois Jacquet
"Rock Steady"	Aretha Franklin
"Suspect Device"	Stiff Little Fingers
"We Are the Champions"	Queen
"I'm Glad You're Mine"	Al Green
"Your Friend & Mine"	Love
"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You"	Bob Dylan
"Get It Together"	Grand Funk Railroad
"This India"	Harbhajhn Singh & Navinder Pal Singh
"Tread Water"	De La Soul
"The Moonbeam Song"	Harry Nilsson
"Juice (Know the Ledge)"	Eric B. & Rakim
"Doing It Anyway"	Apartment 26
"What's On Your Mind"	Eric B. & Rakim
"Good & Strong"	Sy Smith
"Mendocino"	Sir Douglas Quintet
"Chapel of Rest"	Dick Walter
"I Get the Sweetest Feeling'	Jackie Wilson
"The Anti-Circle"	The Roots
"Homespin Rerun"	High Llamas
"Hit the Street"	Rupert Gregson-Williams
"My Little Red Book"	Love

[edit] Songs mentioned in dialogue of film

Song	Performed by
"Little Latin Lupe Lu"	Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels/The Righteous Brothers
"I Just Called To Say I Love You"	Stevie Wonder
"Leader of the Pack"	The Shangri-Las
"Dead Man's Curve"	Jan & Dean
"Tell Laura I Love Her"	Ray Peterson
"One Step Beyond"	Madness
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"	The Rolling Stones
"Not Dark Yet"	Bob Dylan
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"	Gordon Lightfoot
"Many Rivers to Cross"	Jimmy Cliff
"Angel"	Aretha Franklin
"You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"	Gladys Knight
"Janie Jones"	The Clash
"Let's Get It On"	Marvin Gaye
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"	Nirvana
"White Light/White Heat"	The Velvet Underground
"Symphony No. 5"	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Radiation Ruling the Nation (Protection)"	Massive Attack vs. The Mad Professor
"Landslide"	Fleetwood Mac
"Behind Closed Doors"	Charlie Rich
"Dry the Rain"	The Beta Band
"The Night Chicago Died"	Paper Lace
"Point of Know Return"	Kansas

[edit] Reaction

High Fidelity premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. The post-party was held at the Sunset Room where Tenacious D performed.^[12] The film was given a wide release on March 31, 2000, grossing $6.4 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $27.3 million domestically and $19.8 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $47.1 million.^[1]

[edit] Reviews

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, "Watching High Fidelity, I had the feeling I could walk out of the theater and meet the same people on the street — and want to, which is an even higher compliment".^[13]
In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised Jack Black as "a bundle of verbally ferocious energy. Frankly, whenever he's in the scene, he shoplifts this movie from Cusack."^[14]
In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden praised Cusack's performance, writing that he was "a master at projecting easygoing camaraderie, he navigates the transitions with such an astonishing naturalness and fluency that you're almost unaware of them."^[15]
USA Today did not give the film a positive review: "Let's be kind and just say High Fidelity...doesn't quite belong beside Grosse Pointe Blank and The Sure Thing in Cusack's greatest hits collection. It's not that he isn't good. More like miscast."^[16]
In his review for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman gave the film a "B-" rating and wrote, "In High Fidelity, Rob's music fixation is a signpost of his arrested adolescence; he needs to get past records to find true love. If the movie had had a richer romantic spirit, he might have embraced both in one swooning gesture."^[17]
Peter Travers, in his review for Rolling Stone, wrote, "It hits all the laugh bases, from grins to guffaws. Cusack and his Chicago friends — D.V. DeVincentis and Steve Pink — have rewritten Scott Rosenberg's script to catch Hornby's spirit without losing the sick comic twists they gave 1997's Grosse Pointe Blank."^[18]
In his review for The Guardian, Philip French wrote, "High Fidelity is an extraordinarily funny film, full of verbal and visual wit. And it is assembled with immense skill."^[19]
Stephanie Zacharek, in her review for Salon.com, praised Iben Hjejle's performance: "Hjejle's Laura is supremely likable: She's so matter-of-fact and grounded that it's perfectly clear why she'd become exasperated with a guy like Rob, who perpetually refuses to grow up, but you can also see how her patience and calm are exactly the things he needs."^[20]
After seeing the film, Hornby expressed his happiness with John Cusack's performance as Rob Gordon (changed from Rob Fleming in the book), saying, "At times, it appears to be a film in which John Cusack reads my book."^[3]

[edit] Legacy

Empire magazine voted High Fidelity the 446th greatest film in their "500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.^[21] It is also ranked #14 on Rotten Tomatoes' 25 Best Romantic Comedies.^[22]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} "High Fidelity (2000)". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=highfidelity.htm. Retrieved December 24, 2009. 
2. ^ http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2009/03/23/high-fidelity/
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Malanowski, Jamie (April 2, 2000). "Keeping Faith with High Fidelity". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/movies/film-keeping-faith-with-high-fidelity.html. Retrieved 2009-03-27. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Portman, Jamie (March 27, 2000). "Quirky John Cusack Embraces the Eccentric - Again". Ottawa Citizen. 
5. ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (March 31, 2000). "Cusack, in Tune with His Movies". USA Today. 
6. ^ Beale, Lewis (April 2, 2000). "Staying Faithful to High Fidelity". Daily News. 
7. ^ "John Cusack Takes Five". iofilm. http://www.iofilm.co.uk/feats/interviews/j/john_cusack.shtml. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
8. ^ Watson-Smyth, Kate (April 1, 2000). "A case of low fidelity as Hornby's novel translates awkwardly to film". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/a-case-of-low-fidelity-as-hornbys-novel-translates-awkwardly-to-film-721614.html. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
9. ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (March 31, 2000). "Boss Cameo a Musical Coup". USA Today. 
10. ^ ^{a b c} Husband, Stuart (April 21, 2000). "Tracks of My Frears". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/apr/21/2. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
11. ^ Wood, Gaby (December 11, 2005). "The Observer Profile: Jack Black". The Observer. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1664609,00.html. Retrieved 2007-11-30. 
12. ^ Lyons, Charles (March 30, 2000). "Disney Tunes Up High". Variety. 
13. ^ Ebert, Roger (March 31, 2000). "High Fidelity". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000331/REVIEWS/3310302/1023. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
14. ^ Howe, Desson (March 31, 2000). "Turn It Up". Washington Post. 
15. ^ Holden, Stephen (March 31, 2000). "The Trivially Hip: A Music Geek's Warped Love Life". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/033100fidelity-film-review.html. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
16. ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (March 31, 2000). "When Love Hits a Sour Note". USA Today. 
17. ^ Gleiberman, Owen (March 24, 2000). "High Fidelity". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,64593,00.html. Retrieved 2009-09-03. 
18. ^ Travers, Peter (December 8, 2000). "High Fidelity". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947227/review/5947228/high_fidelity. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
19. ^ French, Philip (July 23, 2000). "This one's a hit...". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/jul/23/philipfrench. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
20. ^ Zacharek, Stephanie (March 31, 2000). "High Fidelity". Salon.com. http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/03/31/high_fidelity/index.html. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
21. ^ "500 Greatest Movies of All Time". Empire. http://www.empireonline.com/500/11.asp. Retrieved 2009-09-29. 
22. ^ "25 Best Romantic Comedies". Rotten Tomatoes. 2009. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_romantic_comedies/1095420-high_fidelity/. Retrieved 2009-02-12.

taking woodstock

Taking Woodstock

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Taking Woodstock
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ang Lee
Produced by	Ang Lee James Schamus
Written by	James Schamus Book: Elliot Tiber Tom Monte
Starring	Demetri Martin Imelda Staunton Henry Goodman Liev Schreiber Jonathan Groff Eugene Levy Emile Hirsch Paul Dano
Music by	Danny Elfman
Cinematography	Eric Gautier
Editing by	Tim Squyres
Distributed by	Focus Features
Release date(s)	August 28, 2009
Running time	121 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30,000,000
Gross revenue	$9,928,236

Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.^[1]
The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival,^[2] and opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 26, 2009, before its wide theatrical release two days later.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Factual accuracy 5 Release and reception 5.1 Critical reaction 5.2 Box office 5.3 Awards 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Plot

Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake (Henry Goodman) and Sonia (Imelda Staunton), own the small dilapidated El Monaco Motel in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A hippie theater troupe, The Earthlight Players, rents the barn, but can hardly pay any rent. Due to financial trouble, the motel may have to be closed, but Elliot pleads with the local bank not to foreclose on the mortgage and Sonia delivers a tirade about her struggles as a Russian refugee. The family is given till the end of the summer to pay up.
Elliot plans to hold a small musical festival, and has, for $1, obtained a permit from the town's chamber of commerce (of which he is also the president). When he hears that the organizers of the Woodstock Festival face opposition against the originally planned location, he offers his permit and the motel accommodations to organizer Michael Lang. A neighbor, Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), provides his nearby farm land; first they agree on a fee of $5,000, but after realizing how many people will come, Yasgur demands $75,000, which the organizers reluctantly accept. Elliot comes to agreement about the fee for the motel more smoothly. Initial objections by his mother quickly disappear when she sees the cash paid in advance. A transvestite veteran, Vilma (Liev Schreiber), is hired as security guard.
Elliot and Yasgur encounter a little bit of expected opposition. The local diner refuses to serve Elliot anymore, inspectors target the motel (and only his) for building code violations, and some local boys paint a swastika and hate words on the hotel. However, resistance quickly dissolves in the tidal wave of peace and love (and commerce) brought to the area. The Tiber family works hard serving the massive influx of visitors and become wealthy in the process. Elliot also struggles with hiding his homosexuality from his family, when he connects romantically with one of the event organizers staying at the motel.
On the first day of the concert, Elliot, his father, and Vilma hear the music begin in the distance. Elliot's father, transformed and enlivened by all the new life in town, tells Elliot to go and see the concert. Elliot hitches a ride through the peaceful traffic jam on the back of a benevolent state trooper's motorcycle and arrives at the event. We never see the musical performances: the focus is on the incredible variety of visiting hippies and serendipitous, whimsical happenings in the crowd. Eliot meets a hippie couple (Paul Dano and Kelli Garner) who invite him to join them on an LSD trip in their VW Bus a short distance from the crowd. Elliot has trouble relaxing at first, but gradually melts into a psychedelic cuddle puddle with them. When they finally emerge after sundown, Elliot watches the vast crowd and brilliant lights of the distant concert ripple with harmonious hallucinatory visuals that swell into serene white light.
Elliot returns home from his liberating experience and has breakfast with his parents. He suggests to his mother that they now have enough money to replace him, but she cannot bear to let him have his freedom. Elliot storms out, facetiously suggesting his mom eat the hash brownies Vilma has just offered.
After another beautiful day at the festival, during which his friend the Vietnam veteran (Emile Hirsch) appears to overcome his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Elliot returns home to find his parents laughing and cavorting hysterically, having eaten Vilma's hash brownies. The once-brittle family (particularly Sonia) are united in joy and delirious affection.
The next morning, however, Sonia inadvertently reveals that she has secretly saved $97,000 in cash in the floorboards of her closet. Elliot is upset that his mother hid this from him while he put his own savings into helping his parents.
After the final day of the concert, Elliot packs up his life and says farewell to his father. As Elliot pays one last visit to the concert and looks out over the muddy desolation of the Yasgur farm, Michael Lang rides up on horseback and they marvel at how despite the obstacles, the event was a success. Lang mentions his next big project: staging a truly free concert in San Francisco with the Rolling Stones (the infamous Altamont Free Concert).

[edit] Cast

• Demetri Martin as Elliot Teichberg / Tiber, who volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farm^[3]
• Imelda Staunton as Sonia Teichberg^[3]
• Henry Goodman as Jake Teichberg^[3]
• Liev Schreiber as Vetty von Vilma, a transvestite^[3]
• Jonathan Groff as Woodstock organizer Michael Lang^[3]
• Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur, who owns the nearby farm^[3]
• Emile Hirsch as Billy, a recently returned Vietnam vet^[3]
• Paul Dano and Kelli Garner as a hippie couple in a VW attending the concert^[3]
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Dan, Billy's brother and in opposition to the festival
• Mamie Gummer as Tisha, Lang's assistant^[3]
• Dan Fogler as Devon, a local theater troupe head^[3]
• Skylar Astin as John P. Roberts, who bankrolled the Festival
• Adam LeFevre as Dave
• Kevin Chamberlin as Jackson Spiers
• Damian Kulash (uncredited) as a guitar-playing hippie

[edit] Production

Filming took place from August through October 2008 in New Lebanon, New York and East Chatham, New York, located in Columbia County, and New York City.^[1][4][5]

[edit] Factual accuracy

Elliot Tiber is the author of the memoir on which the movie is based (Bologna, June 2009).

Michael Lang has disputed Tiber's account of the initial meeting with Max Yasgur, and said that he was introduced to Yasgur by a real estate salesman. Lang says that the salesman drove him, without Tiber, to Yasgur's farm. Sam Yasgur, son of Max, agrees with Lang's version, and says that his mother, who is still alive, says Max did not know Tiber. Artie Kornfeld, a Woodstock organizer, has said he found out about Yasgur’s farm from his own sources.^[6][7]

[edit] Release and reception

[edit] Critical reaction

The film maintains a 49% average on Rotten Tomatoes^[8] and a 55% on Metacritic.^[9] It is the only Ang Lee film to ever receive a "rotten" rating.^[10]
Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "But Lee and writer James Schamus aren’t making a historical pastiche. This is a comedy with some sweet interludes and others that are cheerfully over the top, such as a nude theatrical troupe living in Elliot’s barn, and Vilma, his volunteer head of motel security, a transvestite ex-Marine played by Liev Schreiber. How does Schreiber, looking just as he usually does except for a blond wig and a dress, play a transvestite? Completely straight. It works."^[11]
Michael Phillips at the Chicago Tribune gave it 3 out 4 stars saying "Screenwriter James Schamus doesn’t do anything as stupid as shove Elliot back in the closet, but this is no “Brokeback Catskills Mountain.” It’s a mosaic—many characters, drifting in and out of focus—stitching the story of how the peace-and-music bash fell together as it bounced in the haphazard planning stages from its originally scheduled Wallkill, N.Y., location to a cow pasture in White Lake. (Eugene Levy, working hard to restrain his natural comic ebullience, plays the dairy farmer, Max Yasgur.)^[12]
Stephen Holden at the New York Times wrote, "Taking Woodstock pointedly shies away from spectacle, the better to focus on how the lives of individuals caught up by history are transformed...the movie explicitly connects Woodstock to the gay-liberation movement and the Stonewall riots, which took place two months earlier that summer.^[13]
Lou Lumeneck at the New York Post gave it 1.5 stars. "It turns the fabled music festival, a key cultural moment of the late 20th century, into an exceedingly lame, heavily clichéd, thumb-sucking bore. There are two main problems with "Taking Woodstock." One is the central nonperformance by the stand-up comedian Demetri Martin, who is pretty much an emotional black hole as Elliot...the movie doesn't make much of an issue of the character's gayness -- which is utterly untrue to the period, 1969, even in enlightened circles."^[14]
Melissa Anderson in the Village Voice wrote, "Ang Lee’s facile Taking Woodstock proves that the decade is still prone to the laziest, wide-eyed oversimplifications...little music from the concert itself is heard. On display instead are inane, occasionally borderline offensive portrayals of Jews, performance artists, trannies, Vietnam vets, squares, and freaks.^[15]
Slate wrote, "After the long middle section building up to the actual Woodstock, the movie's treatment of the event is maddeningly indirect. No one's asking for a song-by-song re-enactment of the concert, but Lee's refusal to focus even for a moment on the musical aspect of the festival starts to feel almost perverse, as if he's deliberately frustrating the audience's desire."^[16]

[edit] Box office

Taking Woodstock grossed $3,457,760 during its opening weekend, opening at #9.^[17] After five and a half weeks in theaters, on October 1, 2009, the film's total worldwide box office gross was $8,695,829.^[18]

[edit] Awards

Taking Woodstock was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding Film - Wide Release" during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.^[19]

[edit] See also

• Woodstock, a 1969 concert film
• Woodstock
• Elliot Tiber
• Max Yasgur
• Michael Lang
• Ang Lee

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ang Lee Signs On for 'Taking Woodstock'
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Taking Woodstock". festival-Cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/10904017/year/2009.html. Retrieved 2009-05-09. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Michael Fleming (2008-08-05). "'Taking Woodstock' set to start". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990112.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
4. ^ http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/partii/ny-etmvbuzz5782060jul31,0,3397420.story
5. ^ http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080731/LIVING/80730029/1004
6. ^ Bleyer, Bill (2009-08-08). "The road to Woodstock runs through Sunken Meadow State Park.". Newsday. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/road-to-woodstock-runs-through-sunken-meadow-1.1357820. Retrieved 2009-08-25. 
7. ^ Bloom, Nate (2009-08-27). "Revisiting Woodstock, Other flicks, His son, the rabbi". Jweekly.com. http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39722/celebrity-jews1/. Retrieved 2009-08-27. 
8. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taking_woodstock/
9. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/takingwoodstock?q=taking%20woodstock
10. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ang_lee/
11. ^ http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090826/REVIEWS/908269991
12. ^ http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/talking_pictures/
13. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/movies/26woodstock.html?ref=movies
14. ^ http://www.nypost.com/seven/08262009/entertainment/movies/dump_this_stock__186569.htm
15. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-25/film/taking-woodstock-recycles-60-s-tropes/
16. ^ http://www.slate.com/id/2226506/
17. ^ Weekly Box Office Aug 28 - Sep 03, 2009
18. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=takingwoodstock.htm
19. ^ "21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards - English Language Nominees". Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. 2010. http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/21/nominees. Retrieved February 21, 2010.

Detroit Rock City

Detroit Rock City (film)

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Detroit Rock City
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Adam Rifkin
Produced by	Barry Levine Gene Simmons
Written by	Carl V. Dupré
Starring	Edward Furlong Sam Huntington Giuseppe Andrews James DeBello Lin Shaye Melanie Lynskey Natasha Lyonne and featuring Kiss as themselves
Music by	J. Peter Robinson Kiss Thin Lizzy Van Halen Black Sabbath Pantera Cheap Trick AC/DC
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Editing by	Mark Goldblatt Peter Schink
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	August 13, 1999
Running time	95 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000
Gross revenue	$4,217,115[1]

Detroit Rock City is a 1999 cult film^{[citation needed]} about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in Detroit in 1978. Comparable to Rock 'n' Roll High School and Dazed and Confused, Detroit Rock City tells a coming of age story through a filter of 1970's music and culture in the United States. Originally titled The Kiss Movie^{[citation needed]}, the movie ultimately took its title from the Kiss song of the same name. Although it bombed at the box office, grossing fewer than five million dollars domestically, it has since become a cult classic for Kiss fans^{[citation needed]}, rock music fans and metalheads in general.^{[citation needed]}
The film was shot at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and other Ontario locations.^[2]

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Reception 3 Cast 4 DVD 4.1 Region 1 Special Features 4.2 Region 2 Special Features 4.3 Region 4 Special Features 5 KISSology Volume Three 6 Soundtrack 6.1 Track listing 7 See also 8 Footnotes and references 9 External links

[edit] Plot

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The movie opens in Cleveland, Ohio 1978. Hawk, Lex, Trip, and Jam are four rebellious teenagers whom emulate and tribute Kiss to a degree in their own garage band called "MyStery." Jam's ultra-conservative mother, Mrs. Bruce, races up to the home and drags Jam to the car, throwing Jam's Love Gun album into a nearby trash can.
The three remaining boys discover the next morning that their KISS concert tickets are missing, figuring that Trip's jacket carrying the tickets got swapped with Jam's. Jam is not able to retrieve the tickets from his jacket before school due to his mother watching over him as he dresses. Jam's mother later discovers the tickets and destroys them by setting them on fire.
Mrs. Bruce then transfers Jam to a Catholic boarding school upstate. This leaves the remaining boys in a state of shock. While in workshop, the three remaining boys hear a radio contest for KISS concert tickets at Cobo Hall that night.^[3] Trip leaves class, so he can call the contest line and he ends up winning the tickets. The boys then ditch school to bust Jam out of the Catholic school. The trio arrives and Hawk disguises himself as an arriving pizza delivery guy and delivers a pizza ordered by the priest that is scolding Jam that he spikes with hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms to the priest which makes him high, allowing them to all leave.
On the freeway, a Solar Gold 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am) begins tailgating them. Trip drops some pizza on his lap and Trip throws the slice of pizza out of the window. It hits the windshield of the car Trans-Am, causing a dispute that results in the driver of the Trans Am, Kenny, pulling Hawk out of the car and rubbing his face in the pizza on the windshield. This upsets one of the passengers of the Trans Am, Christine (Natasha Lyonne). She argues with the driver and leaves, walking down the freeway.
Kenny, still upset, tosses a 8-track of the Kiss album Love Gun into the way of an oncoming fire truck, smashing it. Hawk then knocks Kenny to the ground. The four friends then leave the Trans Am in a ditch and chain Kenny and the other passengers to a guard rail. The boys leave and later pick up Christine, who decides to accompany them to Detroit..
Upon arrival, they find out that Trip did not stay on the phone long enough to give the radio station his information, forcing the station to give the tickets to the next caller. When coming back outside, Lex notices that the car has been stolen, and they suspect Christine, who they left in the car. Hawk states that the boys go their separate ways in order to find Kiss tickets, and agree to meet in the same place later.
Jam encounters his mother who is leading an anti-Kiss rally. Mrs. Bruce grabs his shirt and drags him to a church across the street. Hawk finds a scalper who suggests that he enter a strip contest at a nearby stip club to raise money for tickets. Trip goes to a a local convenience store in the hopes of mugging a younger child to get tickets. He ends up being beaten up by some of the kids who demand that he pay them for the trouble. Trip ends up thwarting a robbery attempt at the store. Meanwhile Lex sneaks into the backstage area with the Kiss loading crew to help set up the concert, but is soon discovered and found, causing him to flee from arena security and manages to get to the area where the band's trailer is located.
Lex is eventually caught and tossed over a fence by the guards. In a nearby building he finds Christine and his car in a chop shop with two workers. Lex then uses his newly befriended dogs to chase the two thugs into a back office room, saving Christine and his mom's car. Jam decides to go back to the rally, determined this time to take a stand.
Jam finally stands up for himself, getting revenge at his mother for her controlling and domineering ways by yelling at her before the assembled crowd, telling her that forcing religion and morality down his throat are the reasons that he has been rebelling lately. Jam then demands that she return his drumsticks, receiving one of them.
When the boys meet up again, none of them have had any luck getting tickets, so in a last-ditch effort, Jam decides that they should beat each other up and say that muggers took their tickets. They do so, and upon arrival at the concert, they tell the guards that they were mugged by four people. The guards don't believe them, so Trip points out to the guards the thugs from the store, who are just entering the concert hall. The guard finds Trip's wallet (with his Kiss Army picture ID) in their pockets, and hands him the tickets, ejecting the others outside. The boys enter and KISS plays the title song of the movie, "Detroit Rock City".^[4]

[edit] Reception

Reviews for Detroit Rock City has been mixed to good positive reviews from critics and KISS fans. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film got a "Rotten" score of 49%, although the user section on the site was much more positive with a "Fresh" score of 74% (C on boxofficemojo.com) and a 33 out of 100 rating, which indicates "Generally unfavorable reviews", at Metacritic.

[edit] Cast

• Edward Furlong as Hawk
• Sam Huntington as Jeremiah 'Jam' Bruce
• Giuseppe Andrews as Lex
• James DeBello as Trip Verudie
• Lin Shaye as Mrs. Bruce
• Melanie Lynskey as Beth Bumstein
• Natasha Lyonne as Christine (The stella)
• Miles Dougal as Elvis The School Hall Monitor
• Nick Scotti as Kenny (The guido)
• Emmanuelle Chriqui as Barbara (The stella)
• David Quane as Bobby (The guido)
• Rodger Barton as Mr. Stewart Bumstein
• Kathryn Haggis as Mrs. Stewart Bumstein
• Jordan Johnson as Chongo
• Tanner Willis as Slug
• Brian Lott as A Guy Rapist
• Colin Downey as British guy with downs
• Jason Pirosko as Gay Cowboy Boyfriend # 1
• Mike Mesaros as Gay Cowboy Boyfriend # 2
• David Gardner as Detroit Priest
• Shannon Tweed as Amanda Finch
• Ron Jeremy as Strip Club MC
• Kevin Corrigan as chop shop mechanic
• Members of Kiss:
  
  • Gene Simmons as The Demon
  • Ace Frehley as The Space-ace
  • Peter Criss as The Catman
  • Paul Stanley as The Starchild
    
    • Note: The KISS Tribute band Hotter Than Hell claims on their website to have been personally selected by Gene Simmons to double for KISS - they were used to appear as KISS in technical rehearsals. The real band appears in the film.
• Steve Schirripa as a mechanic who steals Lex's car

[edit] DVD

The DVD is on Region 1, Region 2 and Region 4, although the special features differ.

[edit] Region 1 Special Features

• Commentary by Gene Simmons and Director Cole Remple
• Commentary by all four original Kiss members
• Commentary by Adam Rifkin
• Commentary by Cast and crew
• Multi-Angle Views of the Kiss Concert
• An instructional segment featuring a step-by-step guitar lesson by SongXpress on how to play the Kiss song "Rock -N' Roll All Night"
• Over 15 Minutes of Deleted Scenes
• 2 Music Videos "The Boys Are Back in Town" performed by Everclear & "Strutter" performed by The Donnas
• Original Screen Test Footage
• DVD-ROM Features: Script-to-Scene Access, website access, email-able trading cards featuring characters from the film, M.A.T.M.O.K. (Mothers Against the Music of Kiss) spoof newsletters, updated cast and crew biographies and filmographies, productions notes

[edit] Region 2 Special Features

• Commentary by Gene Simmons and Director Adam Rifkin
• Commentary by all four original Kiss members
• Commentary by Rifkin and the cast and crew
• Cutting Room Floor
• Behind The Scenes
• 2 Music Videos "The Boys Are Back in Town" performed by Everclear & "Strutter" performed by The Donnas
• Theatrical trailer
• Cast and crew
• Angle shots on Kiss concert only

[edit] Region 4 Special Features

• Commentary by director Adam Rifkin
• Individual commentary by all four original Kiss members conducted in interview form by Director, Adam Rifkin
• Multi-angle views of the Kiss Concert
• Over 15 minutes of deleted scenes
• 2 music videos "The Boys Are Back in Town" performed by Everclear & "Strutter" performed by The Donnas
• Original screen test footage

[edit] KISSology Volume Three

In December 2007, the film was re-released on DVD as an exclusive bonus fifth disc contained within Kissology Volume Three: 1992–2000. This disc was only available with initial pre-orders sold during VH1 Classic's 24 Hours of KISSmas weekend marathon.

[edit] Soundtrack

Front Cover

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Boys Are Back in Town" performed by Thin Lizzy
2. "Shout It Out Loud" performed by Kiss
3. "Runnin' With The Devil" performed by Van Halen
4. "Cat Scratch Fever" performed by Ted Nugent
5. "Iron Man" performed by Black Sabbath
6. "Highway To Hell" performed by Marilyn Manson
7. "20th Century Boy" performed by T. Rex
8. "Detroit Rock City" performed by Kiss
9. "Jailbreak" performed by Thin Lizzy
10. "Surrender (Live)" performed by Cheap Trick
11. "Rebel Rebel" performed by David Bowie
12. "Strutter" performed by The Donnas
13. "School Days" performed by The Runaways
14. "Little Willy" performed by Sweet
15. "Nothing Can Keep Me From You" performed by Kiss

The soundtrack album however contains some covers of the original songs, some of which were not in the movie itself. The following originals were played in the movie...

1. "The Boys Are Back in Town" performed by Thin Lizzy
2. "20th Century Boy" performed by T. Rex
3. "Highway To Hell" performed by AC/DC
4. "Cat Scratch Fever" performed by Ted Nugent
5. "Strutter" performed by Kiss

Other songs performed in the movie but not featured on the soundtrack are:

1. "Come Sail Away" performed by Styx
2. "Frankenstein" performed by The Edgar Winter Group
3. "Fox On The Run" performed by Sweet
4. "Ladies Room" performed by Kiss
5. "Radar Love" performed by Golden Earring
6. "Love Gun" performed by Kiss
7. "Christine Sixteen" performed by Kiss
8. "I Wanna Be Sedated" performed by The Ramones
9. "Shock Me" performed by Kiss
10. "Godzilla" performed by Blue Öyster Cult
11. "Strutter" performed by Kiss
12. "Blitzkrieg Bop" performed by The Ramones
13. "Popcorn" performed by Hot Butter
14. "Beth" performed by Kiss
15. "Love Hurts" performed by Nazareth
16. "I Stole Your Love" performed by Kiss
17. "Cat Scratch Fever" performed by Ted Nugent
18. "Funk No. 49" performed by James Gang
19. "Conjunction Junction" performed by Bob Dorough
20. "Good Old Days" performed by The Beau Hunks
21. "Lights Out" performed by UFO
22. "Making It" performed by David Naughton
23. "Wild and Hot" performed by Angel
24. "Problem Child" performed by AC/DC
25. "Turn to Stone" performed by Electric Light Orchestra
26. "Black Superman (Mohammed Ali)" performed by The Kinshasa Band
27. "Monster Attacks" performed by Hans Salter
28. "Escape" performed by Rupert Holmes
29. "Black Magic Woman" performed by Santana
30. "Every 1's a Winner" performed by Hot Chocolate
31. "Convoy" performed by CW McCall
32. "Boogie Shoes" performed by KC & The Sunshine Band
33. "Fire" performed by Ohio Players
34. "Muskrat Love" performed by Captain & Tennille
35. "Calling Dr. Love" performed by Kiss
36. "Rock Your Baby" performed by George McCrae
37. "Whole Lotta Rosie" performed by AC/DC
38. "Love to Love" performed by UFO

Some songs in the movie were not released until later periods of times, such as David Naughton's "Makin' It" (the disco song the "guidos" and the "stellas" on the highway were listening to) which was released early 1979, and the AC/DC song "Highway To Hell", which was also released in 1979. However, the latter served only as ironic background music and was most likely not intended to be diegetic.

[edit] See also

• List of American films of 1999
• Culture of Detroit
• Kiss
• Almost Famous
• Dazed and Confused
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand

[edit] Footnotes and references

1. ^ "Detroit Rock City (1999) - Box office / business". The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165710/business. Retrieved 14 November 2009. 
2. ^ "Detroit Rock City (1999) - Filming locations". The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165710/locations. 
3. ^ During the 1978 "Alive II Tour", KISS didn't perform at Cobo Hall. They did two shows at Olympia Stadium on January 20 and 21 that year.
4. ^ Stephenson, Cliff (30 November 1999). "Detroit Rock City Review". DVDfile.com. http://www.dvdfile.com/reviews/review/detroit-rock-city-6237. Retrieved 14 November 2009.

What We Do Is Secret

What We Do Is Secret (film)

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What We Do Is Secret
Directed by	Rodger Grossman
Produced by	Stephen Nemeth Matthew Perniciaro Todd Traina Kevin Mann
Written by	Rodger Grossman
Starring	Shane West Bijou Phillips Rick Gonzalez
Music by	Lakeshore Records
Distributed by	Peace Arch Entertainment
Release date(s)	July 2007 (2007-07)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$58,001 (United States)

What We Do Is Secret is a punk rock biopic directed by Rodger Grossman based on the 1970s Los Angeles punk band, The Germs, and their lead singer, Darby Crash. Grossman also wrote the screenplay for the film, based on a story by Grossman and one of Crash's best friends, Michelle Baer Ghaffari (who produced the film).
The film centers on the narrative of The Germs and their lead singer's five-year plan to become a legend. The band’s history culminates in Crash’s tragic planned suicide, which was overshadowed in the media by the assassination of John Lennon.
There was almost a decade of production of the film, considering how it was beset by changes in production staff and adjustments in casting. Grossman stated that the extended process was "actually a blessing in disguise"; it provided him the chance to conduct “thousands of hours of original interviews,” and the time to come across the film’s lead, Shane West, an actor he feels “did a masterful job capturing Crash on film.”^[1]
The film stars West as Crash, Bijou Phillips as Lorna Doom, Rick Gonzalez as Pat Smear, and Noah Segan as Don Bolles. The film was produced by Rhino Films, Picture Machine, Red Rover Films and King Records as well as being independently produced and financed. The film was released at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 23, 2007, and is being distributed theatrically and on video by Peace Arch Entertainment beginning August 2008.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Development and production 4 External links 4.1 Reviews 5 References

[edit] Plot

Fusing an mixture of narrative and documentary style, Grossman illustrates the story of Darby Crash – born Jan Paul Beahm – and his five-year plan to become a legend. The story begins as Beahm is being expelled from IPS, an experimental high school in West Los Angeles before forming the band with his friend, Georg (George) Ruthenberg.
Beahm and Ruthenberg with the band idea set in their minds, post flyers around town to recruit members. The flyers say, “Wanted: Two untalented girls who don’t know how to play their instruments to form a band.” They find Terri Ryan, who becomes the bassist, and Belinda Carlisle, on drums. Carlisle, however, leaves the band before they ever practice or perform and eventually joined the all-female group The Go-Go's. A young woman named Becky (a.k.a. Donna Rhia) becomes the first drummer for The Germs. Beahm appoints himself lead singer and Ruthenberg chooses to pick up the guitar. Beahm endows each band member with a new stage name: George becomes Pat Smear; Terri becomes Lorna Doom; and he names himself Bobby Pyn. He decides to name the band "Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens" but later realizes that the name requires more letters than they can afford to put on their t-shirts. The group settles on The Germs.
At their first performance in lieu of not knowing how to play instruments, Beahm (as Bobby Pyn) manufactures chaos by starting a food fight with the audience. From their creation, The Germs' reputation makes it difficult for the band to book gigs. Bobby Pyn changes his name again, this time to Darby Crash, and decided that it was time for the band to get serious. Drummer Becky (as Donna Rhia) is forced out of the band, causing The Germs to go through a multitude of drummers before settling on Arizona transplant, Don Bolles – Born Jimmy Giorsetti. Bolles named himself after the Arizona journalist of the same name, who had recently been murdered by the Mafia. Bolles had heard The Germs’ EP, Forming/Sexboy (live) 7 from What? Records, and drove from Phoenix to Los Angeles in hopes of joining the band. Shortly thereafter the group begins playing regularly at the Masque on North Cherokee Avenue, where they develop their talent and establish their notoriety throughout the underground punk scene.^[2]
The Germs’ first single, the 7” Forming/Sexboy, was the first punk record in Los Angeles history, and was made from a barely audible live cassette recording of their second show at the Roxy. Chris Ashford, their first manager, was responsible for the album pressing with What? Records, but he would put the label on the wrong side of the record
Eventually, The Germs are prohibited from performing at every club in LA. In an attempt to circumvent the ban, The Germs perform under the name GI, which stood for “Germs Incognito.”
Throughout the film Crash talks about his five-year plan. As to how the plan will end, he merely says “you’ll see".
Everyone is caught off guard when Lorna receives a phone call informing her of Crash's suicide. The impact of Crash's death was obscured by the assassination of John Lennon the next day.

[edit] Cast

• Shane West as Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) is the film’s protagonist. As the frontman for The Germs, his unpredictable onstage performances include food fights, bottle breaking, chest slashing, and riot inciting. Darby’s interest in philosophy contributes to his insightful and poetic lyrics. He often speaks about the significance of circles, which are the inspiration for the band’s blue circle logo. Darby’s drug use takes a toll on the band, and ultimately leads to his demise. After a Germs farewell show, he intentionally overdoses on heroin, hoping to be remembered as a legend and a martyr. Much of the notoriety of the suicide was eclipsed by John Lennon’s assassination.
• Bijou Phillips as Lorna Doom (born Terri Ryan) is the Germs’ bassist. She joined the band after reading a flyer that called for “Two untalented girls who don’t know how to play their instruments to form a band.” She constantly supports Darby throughout the film, despite his drug problem.
• Rick Gonzalez as Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenburg) is the Germs’ guitarist, and Darby’s closest friend. As classmates, Pat and Darby team up to form a band, despite having no experience playing musical instruments. Pat and Darby’s determination solidifies the band and the group quickly becomes an iconic fixture in the LA punk scene.
• Noah Segan as Don Bolles (born Jimmy Giorsetti) is the drummer for The Germs. Don drove from his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona to audition for the band and is quickly invited to become a member. Don is later replaced by Darby’s close friend, Rob Henley played by Ashton Holmes. However, Don is invited to reunite with the group to perform in the band’s farewell show.

[edit] Development and production

Inspired by Penelope Spheeris' The Decline of Western Civilization and the punk rock scene of Los Angeles, AFI Film School graduate and LA native Rodger Grossman, set out to create an authentic story about the formative years of The Germs.
Although The Germs project experienced several setbacks and false starts over a nine-year period, Grossman stayed committed to the film and ultimately cast Shane West as Darby Crash. West’s strong connection to the material, along with his own experience as the lead singer of a punk band, convinced Grossman to choose West over many other contenders. Grossman cast Bjiou Phillips, who was seventeen years old at the time, to play Lorna Doom. Phillips stayed committed to the project for the entire time it took to bring the film into production.
Pat Smear (the original guitar player in the band), who ultimately became a member of Nirvana, the Foo Fighters and many other bands, was the music producer for the film. With the exception of Phillips, who played guitar (but not bass guitar), and West, who had experience as a singer, none of the other cast members had ever played musical instruments. Intent on making the music in his film sound authentic, Grossman asked Smear to help his actors learn to play their instruments. Smear rehearsed with the band and produced all the pre-recordings that were used in the movie, utilizing the other original members of the Germs, Bolles and Doom. The new band of actors slowly came together. Pat Smear said: "These kids will be as good as we were when we were bad…which is good enough." Smear went on to affectionately refer to the cast as the "Baby Germs." The music in the film was recorded during pre-production, used by the cast as synch tracks during production, and finally married with West’s live vocals, which were recorded on-set. Pat Smear also produced the recordings of the other bands that perform in the movie—the Mae Shi performed as The Screamers, and The Bronx performed as Black Flag.^[1]
The film was shot on location in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, primarily at Occidental Studios, where Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford once made movies. The film was shot guerrilla-style in a total of twenty-one days and in three production periods over a two year period.
All wardrobe and makeup was supervised by Michelle Baer-Ghaffari, a friend of Darby’s, to ensure authenticity.
Grossman used multiple camera positions to convey the significance of the band in relation to the audience. For example, in a scene depicting one of the band’s first shows, the camera looks down on Darby, suggesting the lackluster effect that the band had on the audience. As the film progresses, Grossman changes the camera’s position to make the stage higher relative to the audience, illustrating the control Darby had over his audience.
After a stressful false start in production, the cast and crew held a wrap party to celebrate the un-shot film. At the party the actors who portrayed the band (the Baby Germs) entertained the crew by playing a few of The Germs’ tracks on stage. Then the original Germs, who were in attendance, joined the Baby Germs on stage. The Baby Germs handed their instruments over to the original Germs, who continued to jam with West on vocals. The result was an unexpected Germs reunion with Shane West as front man.^[3]
Heather Mallow, a personal friend of Mr. Grossman, was chosen and played the role of Darby's mother who was briefly discussed during one of the more documentary sequences during the start of the movie.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• What We Do Is Secret at the Internet Movie Database
• What We Do Is Secret at Allmovie
• Official MySpace Page
• Official Facebook Page

[edit] Reviews

• NY Post
• LA Times
• FilmJerk.com Review
• Film Threat Review
• Photo gallery from the movie
• Gay Punk-Rocker Tragedy - The Bay Area Reporter
• Newsday Review
• Germ WarfareEasy Bay Express

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