Friday, July 10, 2009

The Last Great Film I Saw Was...


Anvil! The Story of Anvil, 2009, dir. Sacha Gervasi.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/
The easy comparison would be Spinal Tap, but Anvil is not just a comedy about a metal band dealing with obscurity. It does what all great documentaries do: delves beneath the surface material to tell a resonant human story. Anvil makes you care about the band and its fate, regardless of your musical interests.

2 comments:

  1. I will now take all of your arguments and casually deliver them in conversation as though they are my own. I will sound very "with it" and "discerning" to these North Carolina folks.

    Hooray for Vertical Thought!

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  2. tater,
    i'm looking forward to some good ranting when college bball season rolls around.

    one thing is sure: now that all 3 gardner kids have blogs, the rest of the internet is going to lose some popularity. we got sports, movies, and cute babies.

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