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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 12-21-2000, 10:08 PM:
 
I liked this. I can't say that about too many "band" or "concert" films. There are a number of good films for which music is a central theme (Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould and SLC Punk are personal favorites, among others), but there are very few good band documentaries. This is one of them.

I don't really qualify as a "Phish-head," but this film was really enjoyable to watch. I'm not sure what made this one "work" where others have failed, but I will give the editor a huge amount of credit for getting the pacing right. The film never seems to slow down and never seems boring; it doesn't dwell too long on any one scene and offers a nice balance of concert footage and backstage scenes. The mix is quite good, too; even in a mediocre theatre, the music sounds good. Du Art labs did a nice 16->35mm blowup job, too.

To a certain extent, this is little more than a self-promotional puff piece for the band, but it's a very, very well done self-promotional puff piece, and one which makes good use of subtle humor and should be enough to interest people who aren't personally big fans of the band.
 


Posted by Erik Schill (Member # 675) on 12-27-2000, 11:59 PM:
 
If you see the movie wave to me, I was in the front row of the 12-14-97 show at the RWM, I was also at the great wnt, and lemmon wheel, but I'm not sure if lemmonwheel was in it, I want to see this movie, cause I am a fan of the band (just ask my boss who gets pissed off every summer when I take a month off to tour with them) however, it only came here for 3 days, it was at a little art house called the little, I wanted to see it, but they got it the week the grinch came out, so needless to say where I was, then when I finally got a day off they didn't have it anymore, found it kinda strange seeing as that a piece of the movie was filmed here
 




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