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The_Jackster 06:21 pm UTC 09/04/07 |
| In reply to: | How nice...Jim's mentioned once - in passing!!! grrrr - Jacqueline 03:07 am UTC 09/04/07 |
| Well, having read the thread, how's it feel to be the only one who cares that Jim's not mentioned? (And to put this on the record, I don't give a shit either.) > > http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934586.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 > > Montreal World Film Fest > Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise > (Docu) > By EDDIE COCKRELL > An Atlas Media Corp. production, in association with Voom > HD, Tenth Street Management. (International sales: Voom > HD, New York.) Produced by Greg Moyer, Sal LoCurto, Jordan > Berliant, Bruce David Klein. Directed by Bruce David > Klein. > > With: Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), Kasim Sulton, Dennis > Quaid. > > At once hagiographic and revealing, backstage docu "Meat > Loaf: In Search of Paradise" follows the > never-a-dull-moment rocker during Los Angeles rehearsals > and an early 2007 Canadian tour in support of the third > disc in the "Bat Out of Hell" franchise. Set for a 2008 > U.S. tube preem on the RAVE hi-def channel, pic's obvious > eventual home is the fan shelf. > "I'm total improvisation continuously," says the burly > singer, and love his shtick or hate it, respect must be > paid to a guy who can take on the physicality of a > theatrical stage show at age 59. Pic's twin tensions arise > from his legendarily unstable health and the ever-mutating > staging of the 1977 hit "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." > Deftly sidestepping the singer's fractious relationship > with original "Bat" partner Jim Steinman, whose name is > mentioned only once in passing, helmer Bruce David Klein's > near-reverential treatment is a nice contrast to the > rough-and-tumble of tour life. HD image fairly leaps off > the screen. Pic's most steadying presence is affable and > unshakably supportive bandleader Kasim Sulton, while a > grinning Dennis Quaid crashes one show to front the band > on Van Morrison's "Gloria." > > Camera (color, HD), David West; editor, Erik Klein. > Reviewed at Montreal World Film Festival (Documentaries of > the World), Aug. 30, 2007. Running time: 90 MIN. | |
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