While blockbusters battle it out on the big screen, some of the best of what to watch is at home, streaming directly to your TV. In the past couple of weeks, Netflix has added a plethora of stellar titles to its instant library including a rock n’ roll redemption documentary, a dark and hilarious animated feature and an overlooked Friedkin title. The New and Noteworthy Last Days Here (2011) When we first meet Bobby Liebling, frontman for heavy metal band Pentagram, he is barely more than some tattered skin haphazardly thrown on top of a pile of bones. Years of drug abuse fueled by regret over a superstar career that almost was has left the singer a drain on his parents (in whose basement he lives) and his friends. His manager, Sean Pelletier, displays unfathomable patience as he works tirelessly to get Liebling and Pentgram back on the map. Through the course of Last Days Here the unthinkable...
- 8/7/2012
- by Brian Kelley
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The concept of a “rock doc” can turn off a lot of people. The perception is that anyone unfamiliar with the band or genre in question will be lost to the narrative, or at least bored by a subject they have no interest in. Director’s Don Argot and Demian Fenton manage to prove that this concern is far from reflective of reality with their engrossing documetary Last Days Here.
Chronicling the comeback attempt of Pentagram lead singer Bobby Liebling, Argott and Fenton find a powerful human story worth following and becoming invested in. In fact, their camera takes in moments of such intimacy and personal importance that it’s hard to imagine that they themselves didn’t become emotionally invested in their subject.
So of course, when I got the chance to speak with the directors about their latest film, that question was among my highest priorities. Find out what they said about objectivity,...
Chronicling the comeback attempt of Pentagram lead singer Bobby Liebling, Argott and Fenton find a powerful human story worth following and becoming invested in. In fact, their camera takes in moments of such intimacy and personal importance that it’s hard to imagine that they themselves didn’t become emotionally invested in their subject.
So of course, when I got the chance to speak with the directors about their latest film, that question was among my highest priorities. Find out what they said about objectivity,...
- 3/2/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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