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SIFF Update: Conversation With Stewart Copeland to Go On
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Festival Reports », Seattle », Cinematical Indie »
The good folks at the SIFF Press Office sent out a memo today announcing that Stewart Copeland will not be attending the event "A Conversation With Stewart Copeland" or the screening of his film Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, due to the death of his brother, Ian Copeland. Ian Copeland, a well-known agent and promotor who worked with bands such as R.E.M, Squeeze, and younger brother Stewart's band The Police, died last Tuesday of melanoma at the age of 57.
SIFF will go ahead with tonight's event, "A Conversation With Stewart Copeland", even though the event will no longer include Copeland. Instead: "Ben London, Executive Director of the Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy, will talk about Copeland's life and career, with clips and trailers, and read a statement from Mr. Copeland. The screening of Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out will follow."
SIFF will give vouchers good for a free regular screening to anyone attending the event. Refunds will be given at the box office to those who request it.
Police documentary: Stewart Copeland fights back
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », Sundance »
On Day 2 of Sundance 2006, our own Jason Calacanis wrote a review of
Everybody Stares, a documentary by Police drummer Stewart Copeland about the band that was his life. The film
was cobbled together from Copeland's home movie footage, and Jason was less than impressed. He wrote:
"Documentaries rise and fall with their credibility, and this film feels as credible as a father cutting a son's
football highlights in slow motion to the Chariots of Fire soundtrack. Someone
should take this footage, add some objective 3rd parties commenting on The Police, and redo the voiceover to tell the
real story."That line rubbed Copeland the wrong way, and he commented on the post to let Jason know exactly how he felt.
"Yes," Copeland wrote. "That is just what it felt like to make this movie and you shouldn't be expecting anything more. I just don't have the shots you are looking for (sex and drugs) and maybe I forgot to pick up my camera during the shouting matches...Who would care about an "objective 3rd party commentary" on The Police? The band itself has been defunct for twenty years." Well, by that rationale, should anyone care about a non-objective Police documentary?
Check out Copeland's full comment after the jump.
Stewart Copeland film to debut at Sundace
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », Sundance », Universal », Newsstand »
Man, what is it with drummers and movies this week? First Tommy Lee stars in a documentary, and
now Police drummer/long-time soundtrack composer Stewart
Copeland is directing one. Copeland, who can be seen with a camera to his eye from time to time in Police
Around the World, is now going public with the Super 8 footage he shot during the band's tours over the years.
(And now, as a long-time Police worshiper, I have to take a minute to dance wildly around the room. Ok, I'm back. Thank
you.)The film, titled Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, will be shown publicly for the first time at Sundance later this month, though Copeland initially intended it as "a love letter that he intended to share only with his fellow Police-men...as well as a few close friends." Everyone Stares is reportedly performance-based, and includes a voice-over from its director describing his experiences on tour. As exciting as it is to simply hear that this movie exists, though, the best news for Police fans is the article's final sentence: "Copeland is in talks with Universal Music & Video Distribution about releasing the soundtrack, which would include the derangements ['seven mash-ups of sorts that he created using the original multitracks of the songs'], and the DVD." WOO HOO!
Even the thought of this movie is incredible, and I for one I will be heavily pressuring/desperately begging Cinematical's Sundance team to make it a viewing priority. Pretty please?
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