Vinyl: the Alternate Take (Alan Zweig, 1999/2011)
Vinyl is one of my favourite documentaries. I think it's original, honest, funny, and brilliant. I've probably watched it like 6 times.
Alan Zweig said off that top that Vinyl: the Alternate Take was basically "a glorified DVD extra" which is not the best thing to say to a bunch of people who just paid $14 to see your movie. I was glad I had a volunteer pass for that night. And it's true the film was extraordinarily rough, not colour corrected, over and under exposed. Large sections of it were raw footage. At least two substantial parts of it had awful audio. Atom Egoyan's interview, which I was disappointed never made the cut in the original Vinyl, was tremendously boring.
The parts that worked were the ones what were properly edited, more of the first-person stuff, and the additional footage of Harvey Pekar. A total bonus is that three subjects from the film (the original and Vinyl: the Alternate Take) were sitting next to and in front of me.
While leaving I heard one of them say to the other, "Pfft. Forty five Miles Davis records! That's not a collection, that's just a start!!"
Alan Zweig said off that top that Vinyl: the Alternate Take was basically "a glorified DVD extra" which is not the best thing to say to a bunch of people who just paid $14 to see your movie. I was glad I had a volunteer pass for that night. And it's true the film was extraordinarily rough, not colour corrected, over and under exposed. Large sections of it were raw footage. At least two substantial parts of it had awful audio. Atom Egoyan's interview, which I was disappointed never made the cut in the original Vinyl, was tremendously boring.
The parts that worked were the ones what were properly edited, more of the first-person stuff, and the additional footage of Harvey Pekar. A total bonus is that three subjects from the film (the original and Vinyl: the Alternate Take) were sitting next to and in front of me.
While leaving I heard one of them say to the other, "Pfft. Forty five Miles Davis records! That's not a collection, that's just a start!!"