The Devil and Daniel Johnston set for release on Sony Pictures Classics?!?!

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Speeding Motorcycle
A musical drama based on Daniel's music by Jason Nodler
at the ZACH Theatre, Austin, Texas, Feb 14 - Apr 13

totally going to this

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

This was actually disappointing. No mention of the Kids soundtrack, anti-semitism, Mark Linkous-produced 'comeback' album, etc, very light on the Jad Fair stuff, too many detours into personal stuff that ultimately didn't amount to much. I don't really give a shit about K MCarty or Louis Black.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 13 March 2009 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link

aesthetic masterpiece >>>>>>>>> complete biography

Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 13 March 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Yes, but was it an aesthetic masterpiece? Really?

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 13 March 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah. i don't think it's that it's dissatisfying because it omits parts of the story, just that it doesn't link everything together or deal with everything "holistically". it's a really difficult story and fundamentally difficult to reconcile the art with some of the biography (like the woman jumping out of the window), and i don't think the film ever got there. it's obviously good in some sense, and is ridiculously privileged in being a documentary that actually has handheld, subject-authored footage of a lot of the main points of the story to call on (ie going missing in ny &c). just a difficult story i think.

also it kills me how great, how absolutely enduringly zaprudingly classic, super eight blow ups look on screen, whenever you see people old home movies etc. how anyone can object to dubbed lo-tec film-shot footage mystifies me.

deveraux billings (schlump), Friday, 13 March 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link


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