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> > http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934586.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
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> > 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.
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> > With: Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), Kasim Sulton, Dennis
> > Quaid.
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> > 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."
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> > 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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