Pages tagged “documentary”

Lil Wayne Documentary The Carter Gets Straight-to-DVD Release

After stirring up both critical reviews and a lawsuit over the past year, Lil Wayne documentary The Carter is going to straight to DVD, its public release occurring next week....  read more

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Until the Light Takes Us to Explore Norway's Black-Metal Scene

Even with big marquee names like Kjetil Haraldstad, Kristoffer Rygg and Varg Vikernes on board, it’s unlikely Until the Light Takes Us will overshadow too many of this winter’s blockbuster movies. And in terms of cultural relevance, that’s a damn shame. The documentary, which will see the very limited light of day this winter, tells the story of how Norway’s burgeoning black-metal scene exploded into European consciousness with misunderstood violence, Satanism, arson and, yes, corpsepaint....  read more

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Upstart Filmmaker Chronicles Life on the Road with Deer Tick

Last year, Cory Lovell lived the dream of so many music fans, spending the much of fall 2008 on the road with his favorite band, Deer Tick. But he's hardly your run-of-the-mill fanboy. Nope, Lovell spent the whole time working to create a documentary that would capture the pre-fame essence of the hard-partying and harder-rocking crew. In the end, he told Paste, he emerged overstressed and totally broke, but he got his doc—and it'll hit the public on Oct. 30 and 31 at the Vermont International Film Festival and Nov. 3 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....  read more

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Arctic Monkeys Featured In Upcoming Mockumentary

The Arctic Monkeys are following suit with popular British bands that have gone before them, playing themselves in the upcoming rock mockumentary, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee....  read more

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Iggy Pop and Sonic Youth Featured in Burroughs Doc

Iggy Pop, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo are just three of the dozens who can testify to the personal insanity and cultural significance of William S. Burroughs. The proof: an upcoming documentary on the beat generation writer himself, titled William S. Burroughs: A Man Within....  read more

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Talk Kerouac Project

The Death Cab for Cutie and Son Volt frontmen explain to Paste the creation of One Fast Move or I’m Gone...  read more

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Lebowski Fan Documentary The Achievers Set for August DVD Release

The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski fans, the documentary we told you about last year, is set to be released on DVD on Aug. 18....  read more

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The White Stripes Release Trailer for Tour Documentary

Between working with his new supergroup, The Dead Weather, operating label Third Man Records, and serving on the Nashville Music Council, Jack White is approaching Broken Social Scene-levels of music-world monopoly these days. Now he can add one more line to his impressive resume: starring in a documentary of The White Stripes' wild 2007 Canadian tour....  read more

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The Way We Get By Documentary Brings Home Awards, Comes to a Town Near You

The Bangor International Airport (BGR) in Bangor, Maine is small. Not small as in it's-not-quite-LAX, but small as in there are a total of four gates (if you count adjacent gates 2A and 2B separately) and two baggage carousels. But every day, it's the site of one of the most monumental events in dozens of individuals' lives, as it is the last American land many troops see before flying to Iraq or Afghanistan, and the first American land many troops see after returning from their tour of duty....  read more

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Chipotle Sponsors Free Food, Inc. Screenings

The pairing of a popular, national fast-food restaurant chain sponsorship with a documentary critiquing the money-hungry, modern U.S. food industry may seem counter intuitive, but Chipotle is banking on its "food with integrity" philosophy to coincide tidily with that of Food, Inc.'s....  read more

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