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August 8, 2004

I'd strongly suggest that anyone interested in the creative process go to see Berlinger and Sinfosky's masterpiece of a documentary, Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster.

I'd even more strongly recommend it to my three fellow Deadroom directors, who may see in its look at a collaborative struggle something very familiar; I know I did. All those months where we sat through our meetings feeling completely uninspired, the times that tensions rose or egos took over, and all the deep satisfaction that eventually results from the struggle; that's all in this documentary. The only difference is that it's about millionaire rock stars and not poor filmmakers, and creatively speaking, that's a very minor difference. Also, we've never yelled at each other, but that's just because we're all so passive.

I wonder what happened to my copy of the Black album; that's the only record of theirs I ever had, but I must have given it to my brother or something. I kinda felt like listening to it last night.

The new Brown Bunny trailer played before the movie; it's online, but it's not in Quicktime so I hadn't seen it yet. Starting it off with that Lisa Schwarzbaum quote ("no one in America will ever see a frame of this movie," or something like that) was a brilliant touch. I think a lot of people are taking the marketing of the movie very seriously, but there's a lot of tongue in cheek going on as well, which I think is clear if you've ever read more than one or two interviews with Gallo. He blends pomposity with fragile sincerity in such a wonderfully disarming way; you can never tell if he's serious or not when he says that the movie is a personal piece of art.

I haven't linked to anything from The Guardian in a while; here's a fantastic and insightful interview with another self loathing auteur, Woody Allen.

Posted by David Lowery at August 8, 2004 12:53 PM

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Posted by: jmj at August 8, 2004 6:49 PM