Stephen Kijak: 'We just went full on... starting from a place of intimacy' Photo: Manga Entertainment/Passion Pictures Stephen Kijak’s documentary We Are X offers an up-close portrait of the iconic Japanese rock band X Japan. His preceding music documentaries Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Stones in Exile, Backstreet Boys: Show ’Em What You're Made Of and Jaco follow a filmmaking career that began outside of music, with the narrative feature Never Met Picasso and the feature documentary Cinemania. Since the start, Kijak’s work has been music-centric and even his upcoming narrative feature Shoplifters Of The World focuses on a real-life moment that grew up in the wake of the demise of British band The Smiths. It offers an impression of a filmmaker with narrative intentions amid musical influences, forming a career built upon a unification of story and music.
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- 2/20/2017
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cmt is expanding its original documentary portfolio, greenlighting If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd (working title) for premiere next year. The project, from director Stephen Kijak (We Are X, Stones in Exile) and producer Passion Pictures (Searching For Sugar Man), will explore the music and backstory of the legendary American band. With the songs from the first six Lynyrd Skynyrd albums driving the narration, the film focuses on the story of front…...
- 11/3/2016
- Deadline TV
From director Stephen Kijak, best known for his documentary about the Rolling Stones, Stones in Exile, comes We Are X, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. It is an excellent record of the history of X Japan, a hugely famous and successful band in Japan. However, more than just a documentary about the band and their music, We Are X is really about the band's leader, known simply as Yoshiki and about his troubled past and complex life. Because of this, one need not be a fan, or even aware of X Japan, to enjoy this film. Starting off with slow motion shots of an otherworldly drummer passionately smashing the drums like his life depends on it, We Are X immediately sets...
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- 10/20/2016
- Screen Anarchy
From director Stephen Kijak, best known for his documentary about the Rolling Stones, Stones in Exile comes We Are X which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. It is an excellent record of the history of X Japan, a hugely famous and successful band in Japan. However, more than just a documentary about the band and their music, We Are X is really about the band's leader, known simply as Yoshiki and about his troubled past and complex life. Because of this, one need not be a fan, or even aware of X Japan to enjoy this film. Starting off with slow motion shots of an otherworldly drummer passionately smashing the drums like his life depends on it, We Are X immediately sets...
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- 2/2/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Stephen Kijak’s documentary to hit cinemas on Feb 26.
More2Screen has been confirmed as the international (excluding Us/Canada) theatrical distributor for Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of.
Stephen Kijak (Stones In Exile, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man) directs the project for Pulse Films, K-Bahn and Missing In Action.
The music documentary celebrates the band’s 20th anniversary, filmed over two years as the group started to write a new album and plan their re-launch.
The film will be released in cinemas on Feb 26, with a live performance of the band broadcast by satellite into cinemas.
The worldwide rollout will follow of the recorded release.
Band members Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Aj McLean and Kevin Richardson were all producers on the film along with Mia Bays of Missing In Action Films.
Christine Costello, Managing Director, More2Screen, said: “We are thrilled to be appointed as the international theatrical distributor (excluding...
More2Screen has been confirmed as the international (excluding Us/Canada) theatrical distributor for Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of.
Stephen Kijak (Stones In Exile, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man) directs the project for Pulse Films, K-Bahn and Missing In Action.
The music documentary celebrates the band’s 20th anniversary, filmed over two years as the group started to write a new album and plan their re-launch.
The film will be released in cinemas on Feb 26, with a live performance of the band broadcast by satellite into cinemas.
The worldwide rollout will follow of the recorded release.
Band members Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Aj McLean and Kevin Richardson were all producers on the film along with Mia Bays of Missing In Action Films.
Christine Costello, Managing Director, More2Screen, said: “We are thrilled to be appointed as the international theatrical distributor (excluding...
- 12/3/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Gravitas Ventures wants it that way. The distributor has acquired North American theatrical, VOD, and DVD rights to documentary Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of, from Stones in Exile and Scott Walker: 30th Century Man director Stephen Kijak. Pic chronicles two years in the lives of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Aj McLean and Kevin Richardson, the boy banders who rose to pop stardom with 1996’s eponymous debut album Backstreet Boys, paving the way for the likes of *Nsync, 98 Degrees, and other favorites of the Tiger Beat set. But in Littrell’s own words, “From 1992 to 2002 we were the biggest band in the world… Then it just stopped. And what do you do when you’re a full grown man in a boy band?”
Indeed. Despite selling 130 million records, going gold and platinum in 46 countries, and earning eight Grammy nods, the boy band bubble burst for Littrell & Co.
Indeed. Despite selling 130 million records, going gold and platinum in 46 countries, and earning eight Grammy nods, the boy band bubble burst for Littrell & Co.
- 12/2/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Exclusive: Award-winning producer John Battsek (Searching For Sugarman, The Imposter) is ramping up for a new feature documentary on glam rock/hair metal band X Japan. Megastars in its native Asia who sell out arenas overseas, X Japan has yet to break stateside with as much success. Formed in 1982, X Japan’s evolution into glam-metal-pop superstars is laden with as much dramatic backstory as any international rock outfit. The lineup, anchored by co-founding drummer-pianist-songwriter Yoshiki, has navigated breakups and the deaths of two members while selling over 30 million albums and singles to date.
With director Stephen Kijak (Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Stones In Exile) at the helm, principal photography on the Passion Pictures production will begin October 11 at New York’s Madison Square Garden when the band plays their first concert since 2010. New York also is where X Japan first landed stateside when it signed with Atlantic Records in...
With director Stephen Kijak (Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Stones In Exile) at the helm, principal photography on the Passion Pictures production will begin October 11 at New York’s Madison Square Garden when the band plays their first concert since 2010. New York also is where X Japan first landed stateside when it signed with Atlantic Records in...
- 10/2/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Mick Jagger is planning on spending some time out of the spotlight so others can have a turn. The Rolling Stones frontman is currently looking into turning 20 Feet From Stardom – the Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the stories of several important backup singers and featured interviews with Jagger – into a one-hour scripted TV series and a Broadway musical. According to The Hollywood Reporter, both adaptations would concentrate on the lives of backup singers who support music luminaries, but the TV series would depart from the film's subject matter by focusing on contemporary artists.
- 1/22/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $14.98, Blu-ray $19.98
Studio: Eagle Rock
The 2012 music-filled documentary Crossfire Hurricane takes an in-depth look at The Rolling Stones’ journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early 60’s to rock royalty, from the Marquee Club to Hyde Park, from Altamont to Exile, from club gigs to stadium extravaganzas.
As befits the first rock band to reach the 50-year milestone with their global stature now greater than ever, the film combines extensive historical footage, much of it widely unseen, with contemporary commentaries by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Period interviews, extensive live performance material and news archives give the production a truly kinetic aura and no-holds-barred approach.
The well-received Crossfire Hurricane premiered on HBO in November, 2012.
Crossfire Hurricane is the latest title in a series of new and vintage Stones releases from Eagle Rock, following Stones in Exile,...
Price: DVD $14.98, Blu-ray $19.98
Studio: Eagle Rock
The 2012 music-filled documentary Crossfire Hurricane takes an in-depth look at The Rolling Stones’ journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early 60’s to rock royalty, from the Marquee Club to Hyde Park, from Altamont to Exile, from club gigs to stadium extravaganzas.
As befits the first rock band to reach the 50-year milestone with their global stature now greater than ever, the film combines extensive historical footage, much of it widely unseen, with contemporary commentaries by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Period interviews, extensive live performance material and news archives give the production a truly kinetic aura and no-holds-barred approach.
The well-received Crossfire Hurricane premiered on HBO in November, 2012.
Crossfire Hurricane is the latest title in a series of new and vintage Stones releases from Eagle Rock, following Stones in Exile,...
- 4/16/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The world is finally getting that unflinching documentary about the Backstreet Boys it has until now been so cruelly denied. The film from director Stephen Kijak will be a full-length look at the massively successful boy band, from the group’s inception under Lou Pearlman to its current, not-so-boyish iteration. While the project certainly has the potential to be totally fluffy bullshit, Kijak—who also directed the music documentaries Stones In Exile and Scott Walker: 30 Century Man—insists it won’t be. He tells The Hollywood Reporter that what drew him to the project is the group’s “openness ...
- 2/11/2013
- avclub.com
Who doesn't want to know the inside story of one of the biggest boy bands in pop culture history?
It's just been confirmed that director Stephen Kijak -- who directed documentaries Stones In Exile and Scott Walker -- is directing a film about the Backstreet Boys' journey from child stars to global sensations, which is being billed as a "tell-all project about all five original members of the band."
Video: NKotB Takes the Boy Band Quiz
Bsb confirmed the news in a statement.
"We always wanted to make a film and now is the ideal time. With Kevin back, the fact that we are masters of our own destiny, a new album in the works and our 20th anniversary -- it all adds up to being the right time to share our story," they said.
Just don't expect a fluffy feel-good film.
"What drew me to this project is their [Backstreet Boys] openness and willingness to push themselves...
It's just been confirmed that director Stephen Kijak -- who directed documentaries Stones In Exile and Scott Walker -- is directing a film about the Backstreet Boys' journey from child stars to global sensations, which is being billed as a "tell-all project about all five original members of the band."
Video: NKotB Takes the Boy Band Quiz
Bsb confirmed the news in a statement.
"We always wanted to make a film and now is the ideal time. With Kevin back, the fact that we are masters of our own destiny, a new album in the works and our 20th anniversary -- it all adds up to being the right time to share our story," they said.
Just don't expect a fluffy feel-good film.
"What drew me to this project is their [Backstreet Boys] openness and willingness to push themselves...
- 2/11/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
Former ‘N Syncer Justin Timberlake might’ve taken the stage at last night’s Grammy’s, but Timberlake’s ’90s rival, The Backstreet Boys, have a little something up their sleeves as well. A Backstreet Boys documentary is currently in production by Pulse Films and is set to be finished this fall.
The film announcement follows on the heels of the boy band’s reunion with all five members, and their upcoming album as well as world tour for their 20th anniversary. But that’s not the focus of the documentary.
Directed by Stones In Exile’s Stephen Kijak, the...
The film announcement follows on the heels of the boy band’s reunion with all five members, and their upcoming album as well as world tour for their 20th anniversary. But that’s not the focus of the documentary.
Directed by Stones In Exile’s Stephen Kijak, the...
- 2/11/2013
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside Movies
Big day for teen movie news: The recently reunited Backstreet Boys are getting their own documentary, and it's not just a fluffy Tiger Beat video, either. Stephen Kijak, who directed Stones in Exile, is working on the feature-length project for Pulse Films (which produced LCD Soundsystem's Shut Up and Play the Hits). Even Kevin is involved. Look, Jt, boy-band reunions can be Serious Film Events, too.
- 2/11/2013
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
Good news for Bsb fans -- the Backstreet Boys are getting a documentary.
The '90s boy band, made up of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A. J. McLean, and Kevin Richardson, is the subject of an upcoming film from director Stephen Kijak. The documentary will focus on the band's rise to superstardom and continued success as a group.
"We always wanted to make a film and now is the ideal time - with Kevin back, the fact that we are masters of our own destiny, a new album in the works and our 20th anniversary all adds up to being the right time to share our story," the band said in a statement.
"What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction,...
The '90s boy band, made up of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A. J. McLean, and Kevin Richardson, is the subject of an upcoming film from director Stephen Kijak. The documentary will focus on the band's rise to superstardom and continued success as a group.
"We always wanted to make a film and now is the ideal time - with Kevin back, the fact that we are masters of our own destiny, a new album in the works and our 20th anniversary all adds up to being the right time to share our story," the band said in a statement.
"What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction,...
- 2/11/2013
- by Madeline Boardman
- Huffington Post
Backstreet Boys will be the subject of a new feature documentary by Stephen Kijak.
Kijak previously helmed 2010's Stones In Exile, about The Rolling Stones recording Exile on Main Street, and 2006's Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.
The Pulse Films production, produced by Mia Bays, Thomas Benski and executive produced by Lucas Ochoa, will be finished by autumn 2013 and has the working title of Backstreet Boys - The Movie.
"After making a film with The Rolling Stones, what does one do to top that experience? Backstreet Boys, that's what!" said Kijak.
"This is an incredible opportunity to make a film no-one would expect The Backstreet Boys to make.
"What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction."
He added: "This isn't...
Kijak previously helmed 2010's Stones In Exile, about The Rolling Stones recording Exile on Main Street, and 2006's Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.
The Pulse Films production, produced by Mia Bays, Thomas Benski and executive produced by Lucas Ochoa, will be finished by autumn 2013 and has the working title of Backstreet Boys - The Movie.
"After making a film with The Rolling Stones, what does one do to top that experience? Backstreet Boys, that's what!" said Kijak.
"This is an incredible opportunity to make a film no-one would expect The Backstreet Boys to make.
"What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction."
He added: "This isn't...
- 2/11/2013
- Digital Spy
Director Stephen Kijak is prepping a movie-length documentary for theatrical release on arguably one of the biggest boy bands of all time, the Backstreet Boys, for U.K. and Us production banner Pulse Films. Kijak, whose resume boasts the docs Stones In Exile and Scott Walker -- 30th Century Man, is to detail the tumultuous journey from child stars to fully-grown boy band. Photos: The Beatles to The Wanted: The Evolution of Boy Bands Produced by Mia Bays and Thomas Benski and exec produced by Lucas Ochoa, the music documentary is billed as a tell-all project about all five original members of the band
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- 2/11/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 6, 2012
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $26.09
Studio: Abkco
Young Mick and Keith hit the road in Charlie Is My Darling.
Abkco Films acknowledges the 50th anniversary of the formation of The Rolling Stones with the official release of a new version of the legendary 1966 music-filled documentary film The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965, the music-filled movie that marked the cinematic debut of the band.
We refer to the release as “official” because it’s been available for decades in various unofficial editions!
Directed by Peter Whitehead, The Rolling Stones Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965 was shot on a quick weekend tour of Ireland just weeks after “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” hit #1 on the charts. An intimate, behind-the-scenes diary of life on the road with the young Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling features the first professionally filmed concert performances of the band’s storied touring career.
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $26.09
Studio: Abkco
Young Mick and Keith hit the road in Charlie Is My Darling.
Abkco Films acknowledges the 50th anniversary of the formation of The Rolling Stones with the official release of a new version of the legendary 1966 music-filled documentary film The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965, the music-filled movie that marked the cinematic debut of the band.
We refer to the release as “official” because it’s been available for decades in various unofficial editions!
Directed by Peter Whitehead, The Rolling Stones Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965 was shot on a quick weekend tour of Ireland just weeks after “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” hit #1 on the charts. An intimate, behind-the-scenes diary of life on the road with the young Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling features the first professionally filmed concert performances of the band’s storied touring career.
- 10/1/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012
Price: DVD $14.98, DVD/CD $19.98
Studio: Eagle Rock
Mick and Muddy give it up for rock and blues at The Checkerboard Lounge.
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones Live At The Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981 represents a one-night-only, now-legendary coming-together of the renowned bluesman and the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band.
On November 22, 1981, The Stones were touring America to promote their Tattoo You album when they had a night off in Chicago. What to do? The decision was a no-brainer, as they quickly learned that Muddy Waters was in town that night performing at the beloved Checkerboard Lounge. It didn’t take long before Muddy called up to the stage the attending Stones: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Ian Stewart. The British bad boys wound up jamming with Muddy and his band for nearly an hour-and-a-half, joined by ace guitarist Buddy Guy (who owned the...
Price: DVD $14.98, DVD/CD $19.98
Studio: Eagle Rock
Mick and Muddy give it up for rock and blues at The Checkerboard Lounge.
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones Live At The Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981 represents a one-night-only, now-legendary coming-together of the renowned bluesman and the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band.
On November 22, 1981, The Stones were touring America to promote their Tattoo You album when they had a night off in Chicago. What to do? The decision was a no-brainer, as they quickly learned that Muddy Waters was in town that night performing at the beloved Checkerboard Lounge. It didn’t take long before Muddy called up to the stage the attending Stones: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Ian Stewart. The British bad boys wound up jamming with Muddy and his band for nearly an hour-and-a-half, joined by ace guitarist Buddy Guy (who owned the...
- 6/21/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and with June being a major production month we’ve got a slew of projects that we feel are worth signaling out. Music appears to be a common narrative theme surrounding several items – we find it infused in Once‘s John Carney’s U.S. production debut – a 10 million dollar production about a dejected music business executive forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan. Scarlett Johansson was formerly attached to Can a Song Save Your Life?, now Knightley appears to be on board. Rock documentary filmmaker Stephen Kijak (Stones in Exile) is looking to make his second fictional feature based on the true story of a The Smiths fans who lost his bearings when the group announced its break-up. Shoplifters of the World...
- 6/5/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Oh, we’re off to see the Kardashians?
E! announced a slate of scripted dramas (yes, dramas, not reality shows) that the network has in development Sunday night, and one title in particular stands out: Dorothy.
Here’s the logline: “Inspired by the book Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz, a girl from Kansas City falls for a man and moves with him to the Emerald City to work at his Emerald Hotel. From writer Natalie Krinsky (Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy) and Warner Horizon Television.”
Huh!
E! also announced other titles in development like the Amy Devlin Mysteries (based...
E! announced a slate of scripted dramas (yes, dramas, not reality shows) that the network has in development Sunday night, and one title in particular stands out: Dorothy.
Here’s the logline: “Inspired by the book Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz, a girl from Kansas City falls for a man and moves with him to the Emerald City to work at his Emerald Hotel. From writer Natalie Krinsky (Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy) and Warner Horizon Television.”
Huh!
E! also announced other titles in development like the Amy Devlin Mysteries (based...
- 4/30/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Exile on Main St. is the most revered and emblematic of Rolling Stones albums, recorded mostly in Keith Richards’ basement in the south of France in 1971. The band had fled to France to escape Britain’s tax man, scattered through the country and descended on Richards’ drug-stocked bunker to record “under very chaotic circumstances,” as Richards wrote in his biography. The legendary sessions have been documented before in the heralded Mick Jagger-sanctioned 2010 documentary Stones in Exile, but Richard Branson now has plans to dramatize the album’s genesis as well. As reported by Deadline, Branson’s Virgin Produced will adapt Robert Greenfield’s book,...
- 4/23/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Richard Branson company to produce feature film based on Robert Greenfield's book about chaotic making of classic album
A book detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of The Rolling Stones is set to be turned into a film via Richard Branson's production company Virgin Produced, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Robert Greenfield's Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones examines the troubled genesis of the group's 10th UK album. The critically acclaimed record that includes the hits Rocks Off and Tumbling Dice, was made during recording sessions that were notoriously chaotic. The band, who had left Britain as tax exiles, decamped to the Villa Nellcôte in the south of France to record the double album. Drugs, alcohol and a stream of visiting celebrity friends (including William S Burroughs and Gram Parsons) were constant distractions, while the relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards...
A book detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of The Rolling Stones is set to be turned into a film via Richard Branson's production company Virgin Produced, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Robert Greenfield's Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones examines the troubled genesis of the group's 10th UK album. The critically acclaimed record that includes the hits Rocks Off and Tumbling Dice, was made during recording sessions that were notoriously chaotic. The band, who had left Britain as tax exiles, decamped to the Villa Nellcôte in the south of France to record the double album. Drugs, alcohol and a stream of visiting celebrity friends (including William S Burroughs and Gram Parsons) were constant distractions, while the relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards...
- 4/23/2012
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
The Sarasota Film Festival, wrapping today, has announced this year's round of awards and SarasotaPatch has the full list. We especially want to congratulate Dan Sallitt, whose The Unspeakable Act has won Best Film in the Independent Visions competition. As Dan tells the Ditmas Park Corner, the film centers on a girl who "has her own vision, which is totally at odds with society's vision of what she's supposed to do with her romantic and sexual urges." And, as we noted last month, The Unspeakable Act will screen in June at New York's BAMcinemaFest.
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
- 4/22/2012
- MUBI
While the making of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (which many consider to be one of their best, if not greatest album) has been chronicled numerous times both in print and film (most recently in Stephen Kijak's documentary "Stones In Exile"), the entire story of those rocky sessions and the background that led to the album has a feature film scope. Certainly, Richard Branson sees things that way as he's throwing his producing powers behind a narrative movie that will bring the tale of Exile On Main Street to the big screen.
Virgin Produced has snapped up the rights to Robert Greenfield’s "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" with plans to turn it into a drama about the band. As The Rolling Stones headed into the making of the album, they were a group in disarray. They had recently...
Virgin Produced has snapped up the rights to Robert Greenfield’s "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" with plans to turn it into a drama about the band. As The Rolling Stones headed into the making of the album, they were a group in disarray. They had recently...
- 4/22/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As long as Mick Jagger can keep wiggling his hips, and Keith Richards stays alive, The Rolling Stones won't be retiring anytime soon. But even then, it's hard to believe the band's 50th anniversary is right around the corner. To help in what will probably be a blitzkrieg of marketing and merchandise, a career-spanning documentary is on the way.
Brett Morgen, the director behind "The Kid Stays In The Picture" and "Chicago 10," will take the helm on a film that will trace the band from their origins in the early '60s, and visit them on the road, behind the scenes and in the studio. The untitled picture already has a September release date being lined up, and given that it's not too far away, we're guessing this will be a pretty glossy, perhaps not quite substantive piece. The band have been subject to many films over the years...
Brett Morgen, the director behind "The Kid Stays In The Picture" and "Chicago 10," will take the helm on a film that will trace the band from their origins in the early '60s, and visit them on the road, behind the scenes and in the studio. The untitled picture already has a September release date being lined up, and given that it's not too far away, we're guessing this will be a pretty glossy, perhaps not quite substantive piece. The band have been subject to many films over the years...
- 3/15/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
At the height of his most revolutionary bent during the 60s, powerhouse French director Jean Luc Godard was invited to Britain to make a film calling for the legalization of abortion, but fate determined that his unmade film was made redundant by a change in British laws. He agreed to stay in Britain if he was given the opportunity to make a film about either The Beatles (who declined) or The Rolling Stones, and in 1968, he directed a politically charged commentary film that he called One Plus One- later renamed Sympathy For The Devil after a rock and roll song of the same name.
The film combines documentary footage and staged sequences, alternating between showing the Stones’ recording process to Godard’s own charged reflections on contemporary politics and aesthetics, and it is now available to buy on blu-ray.
Neither movie nor documentary, Sympathy For The Devil is an experiment in visual juxtaposition,...
The film combines documentary footage and staged sequences, alternating between showing the Stones’ recording process to Godard’s own charged reflections on contemporary politics and aesthetics, and it is now available to buy on blu-ray.
Neither movie nor documentary, Sympathy For The Devil is an experiment in visual juxtaposition,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
If most recent documentaries assaying '60s and '70s rock and roll are any indication, filmmakers expect viewers to approach pop music history not with open minds but with empty heads.
Case in point: the curiosity that led me to watch "Stones In Exile," a recent non-fiction film on the making of the Rolling Stones beyond seminal LP "Exile On Main Street," was rewarded by supposedly contextualizing input from a young man in a band called Kings Of Leon who appeared in his choice of comments to have never heard of either the Stones or their 1972 album.
No offense to anyone's record collection, but the complete absence of Bono, Jack White, Sheryl Crow and the rest of the rock doc talking head usual suspects in Vikram Jayanti's new film puts it in the winner's circle right out of the gate. That film is "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector,...
Case in point: the curiosity that led me to watch "Stones In Exile," a recent non-fiction film on the making of the Rolling Stones beyond seminal LP "Exile On Main Street," was rewarded by supposedly contextualizing input from a young man in a band called Kings Of Leon who appeared in his choice of comments to have never heard of either the Stones or their 1972 album.
No offense to anyone's record collection, but the complete absence of Bono, Jack White, Sheryl Crow and the rest of the rock doc talking head usual suspects in Vikram Jayanti's new film puts it in the winner's circle right out of the gate. That film is "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector,...
- 6/30/2010
- by Bruce Bennett
- ifc.com
North by Northeast 2010 is upon us! That means I have ringing ears and a sore ass ahead of me, thanks to the over 600 live music acts and an ample assortment of music themed documentaries that are taking Toronto by storm this week. This is simply a list of things I plan on checking out during Nxne, things that I think my fellow dorks will appreciate. I’ll admit that I’m not as up on new music as some, if you want the real scoop on up-and-coming bands at Nxne then be sure to read Jessica’s Nxne 2010 picks.
We’re barely scratching the surface here though, there is so much to see and do at North by Northeast. Be sure to check out the official Nxne 2010 website for ticket info and the full schedule or just go buy a wristband and get out there and see what you can!
We’re barely scratching the surface here though, there is so much to see and do at North by Northeast. Be sure to check out the official Nxne 2010 website for ticket info and the full schedule or just go buy a wristband and get out there and see what you can!
- 6/15/2010
- by Will
- DorkShelf.com
London, May 24 – Sir Mick Jagger says the drug use captured in the nearly four decade old footage of the Rolling Stones, that features in a new documentary, was quite normal those days.
The rockers have attracted severe criticism for footage in the new film, “Stones In Exile”, which shows the Rolling Stones’ indulging themselves on drugs while recording their 1972 album Exile on Main Street.
One scene depicts the eight-year-old son of a backing musician telling the filmmakers that his job is to roll marijuana joints for people who want to smoke.
However, Jagger has come out.
The rockers have attracted severe criticism for footage in the new film, “Stones In Exile”, which shows the Rolling Stones’ indulging themselves on drugs while recording their 1972 album Exile on Main Street.
One scene depicts the eight-year-old son of a backing musician telling the filmmakers that his job is to roll marijuana joints for people who want to smoke.
However, Jagger has come out.
- 5/24/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Mick Jagger arrived in town to promote his Rolling Stones docu Stones In Exile and summed up his past and present life with the above quote. The hour-long film charts the making of the Stones classic Exile On Main Street. The BBC has already broadcast the documentary, while NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon showed clips last week. Jagger introduced the film in pantomime French. The singer said that sometimes he didn’t even recognise people in the footage unearthed from some 40 boxes of material kept in the Stones’ private archive. One 8-year-old boy who’d been used as a drugs mule by [...]...
- 5/20/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
By Roger Friedman
HollywoodNews.com: Is it possible? The Rolling Stones have shut down a whole side street in Cannes. The lines outside the Palais Stephanie hotel movie theater are deep, long and wide.
Is it 1972? No, it’s 2010. The Stones are re-releasing their seminal album, “Exile on Main Street” this week, remastered and with six new old tracks.
But there’s also a one hour movie, “Stones in Exile” fashioned from unseen footage, and clips from two little known films: the cultish “Cocksucker Blues” and the long ago vanished “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.”
This is what is driving Cannes crazy a week after the film festival has opened.
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
“Stones In Exile” Trailer...
HollywoodNews.com: Is it possible? The Rolling Stones have shut down a whole side street in Cannes. The lines outside the Palais Stephanie hotel movie theater are deep, long and wide.
Is it 1972? No, it’s 2010. The Stones are re-releasing their seminal album, “Exile on Main Street” this week, remastered and with six new old tracks.
But there’s also a one hour movie, “Stones in Exile” fashioned from unseen footage, and clips from two little known films: the cultish “Cocksucker Blues” and the long ago vanished “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.”
This is what is driving Cannes crazy a week after the film festival has opened.
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
“Stones In Exile” Trailer...
- 5/19/2010
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
By the eighth day of Cannes folks typically begin to flag but judging from the buzz on the Croisette a sizeable number will re-boot for the Wednesday afternoon screenings of "Stones in Exile," a one-hour doc reliving the glory days of the Rolling Stones.
The exile in question, appropriately enough, was right here on the French Riviera since the band members had to leave England right after the swinging '60s in order to avoid taxes. They set up shop on the Mediterranean coast, lived a version of the French provincial life (plus sex, drugs and rock-'n-roll) for several years in the early 1970s, and produced one of their best albums, "Exile on Main Street," in the offing.
The doc culls from 40 hours of musty outtakes shot by American docmeister Robert Frank for his own opus (the banned but bootlegged "Cocksucker Blues"), hidden in vaults for almost 40 years, as well...
The exile in question, appropriately enough, was right here on the French Riviera since the band members had to leave England right after the swinging '60s in order to avoid taxes. They set up shop on the Mediterranean coast, lived a version of the French provincial life (plus sex, drugs and rock-'n-roll) for several years in the early 1970s, and produced one of their best albums, "Exile on Main Street," in the offing.
The doc culls from 40 hours of musty outtakes shot by American docmeister Robert Frank for his own opus (the banned but bootlegged "Cocksucker Blues"), hidden in vaults for almost 40 years, as well...
- 5/18/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sir Mick Jagger believes the "orgies and drug taking" of the early 70s were a result of it being a creative time. The Rolling Stones legend, who is the focus of new documentary "Stones in Exile" at the Cannes Film Festival, reveals details of the period in the film and admits it was a period of excess.
"The orgies, the drug taking? Yes I remember it well," Jagger said. "It was lot of fun, quite a bumpy time but generally quite a creative period despite all the excesses. In those days that's how it was done, we got away with it."
The release of the documentary will be accompanied by the digital re-mastering of their iconic LP "Exile on Main St.", which will also include 10 brand new songs that have been lost for decades, which the band always knew the tracks existed but couldn't find. Jagger added, "They were in our tape store,...
"The orgies, the drug taking? Yes I remember it well," Jagger said. "It was lot of fun, quite a bumpy time but generally quite a creative period despite all the excesses. In those days that's how it was done, we got away with it."
The release of the documentary will be accompanied by the digital re-mastering of their iconic LP "Exile on Main St.", which will also include 10 brand new songs that have been lost for decades, which the band always knew the tracks existed but couldn't find. Jagger added, "They were in our tape store,...
- 5/17/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
HollywoodNews.com: “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” will host a weeklong celebration of the Rolling Stones beginning May 10, saluting the re-release of the band’s 10th studio album “Exile on Main Street.” Regarded as one of the greatest albums in rock ‘n’ roll history and one of the most defining of the Stones’ catalogue, “Exile” will be available in the U.S. May 18. The weeklong event is being sponsored by Bud Light Golden Wheat, culminating in a special limited commercial broadcast on Friday, May 14th.
“We’re very excited that ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ is devoting a special week to ‘Exile on Main Street’ with our new documentary ‘Stones In Exile’ premiering for the first time ever in the U.S. on Friday,” said the Rolling Stones.
Spotlighting tracks from the album, the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” musical guests will perform selected songs from “Exile on Main Street” each night during the week.
“We’re very excited that ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ is devoting a special week to ‘Exile on Main Street’ with our new documentary ‘Stones In Exile’ premiering for the first time ever in the U.S. on Friday,” said the Rolling Stones.
Spotlighting tracks from the album, the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” musical guests will perform selected songs from “Exile on Main Street” each night during the week.
- 5/6/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The lineup for the 2010 edition of Directors’ Fortnight has been announced. There are eleven first films in the lineup which will compete for the Camera d’Or prize which goes to a first film from across all the sections.
In 2010 Directors’ Fortnight, the Carrosse d’Or award will be awarded to Agnes Varda, the celebrated woman auteur-director of the french independant cinema. The Carrosse d’or (Golden Coach) Prize is a tribute to a director chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this prize has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Sembene Ousmane, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch and Naomie Kawasé in 2009.
Directors’ Fortnight will run from May 13 to 23 on the sidelines of the official selection at Cannes International Film festival.
Feature films
(* denotes films competing for Caméra d'Or Prize)
Alegria,...
In 2010 Directors’ Fortnight, the Carrosse d’Or award will be awarded to Agnes Varda, the celebrated woman auteur-director of the french independant cinema. The Carrosse d’or (Golden Coach) Prize is a tribute to a director chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this prize has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Sembene Ousmane, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch and Naomie Kawasé in 2009.
Directors’ Fortnight will run from May 13 to 23 on the sidelines of the official selection at Cannes International Film festival.
Feature films
(* denotes films competing for Caméra d'Or Prize)
Alegria,...
- 4/20/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile.. - You can say that there'll be plenty of virgins in this year's Director's Fortnight section. Quickly looking at the list of 22 feature films, Frédéric Boyer's very first edition appears to be heavy on first time works - exactly half of the section are newbies.
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
You can say that there'll be plenty of virgins in this year's Director's Fortnight section. Quickly looking at the list of 22 feature films, Frédéric Boyer's very first edition appears to be heavy on first time works - exactly half of the section are newbies. In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile. Here are...
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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