I NEED THAT RECORD
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Mood Before movie: First time ever at the Kino theatre! woo.
Ass-o-meter: Low.
Comments:
Those that know me will know that I collect records, so it will probably come as no surprise that this topic is close to my heart. I love independent record stores, and it saddens me to think that they might be dying out. If Missing Link records or Polyester was to close their doors it would be a very sad day for the music culture of Melbourne...
This documentary covered the general record company kind of stuff that you would have seen in other internet music download documentaries. So much of the content it fairly old news by this point. An interesting tid bit that I hadn't really considered is how big box stores like Walmart/Target will actually sell CDs at a loss just to get people into the stores on the hope of them making an impulse purchase. This making it cheaper in a lot of cases for music stores to go and buy their stock directly from Walmart rather than from the distributor. Making competition for the independant music store almost impossible...
This was a reasonably well made doco for what seemed to be a small amount of people that worked on it. Unfortunately, it lacked any real new or ground breaking content.
I also got handed a flier as I walked out of this movie for a new store that I haven't been to before... Here's the details:
Sunshine + Greese - Music, Books, DVD
117 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Australia.
Check it out and post a comment if it's any good.
Rating: 3/5
AWAY WE GO
Trailer:
Mood Before movie: Wet but happy.
Ass-o-meter: No problemo.
Comments:
Away We Go is the new film from director Sam Mendes, it's in a similar vein to his previous film American Beauty but falls more on the comedic side of the fence than the dramatic. Like American Beauty, this film follows a couple, Burt and Verona, as they go through a change in their lives (getting pregnant), which forces them to ask the question “are we fuckups?”. For the rest of the movie they travel around America visiting an array of eccentric characters with young families. Each family they meet display their own, often strange, techniques for parenting while Burt and Verona look for a place to settle down to start their own family.
This type of film in the wrong hands can easily cross the line into being a gag based comedy, or even worse be turned into sentimental gush fest. However, somehow Mendes has a knack for clever casting and allowing the his characters to breathe on screen in such a way that by 30 minutes into the movie you feel like you can really relate to them.
In a lot of movies I find myself noticing technical aspects of the construction of the film, and start thinking how things could have been done better or differently. However, as a testament to the quality of the delivery of this film I can't really remember doing that because I was was enjoying watching all of the scenes play out so much.
By this stage in the festival I was ready for a lighter film to come along and sweep me off my feet, and this one did the trick.
Rating: 4.5/5
DEATHBOWL TO DOWNTOWN
Trailer:
Mood Before movie: 360-flip-to-half-cab-backside-smith-grind-to-hard-flip.
Ass-o-meter: not bad.
Comments:
This film picks up almost exactly where Dogtown and the Z-Boys left off in 2001, and charts the transition of skating from the surf beaches of California, to the streets of New York City, to become what it is today.
If you have seen and enjoyed the Dogtown and the Z-Boys documentary then you will probably also enjoy this film. It covers some of the history of New York City and tells the story of kids riding planks of wood down a street, into them using the architecture of the city to skate on instead of ramps.
I like skateboarding so I found this interesting. If you don't like skateboarding then you probably will find it hard going.
Rating: 3/5
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