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Led Zeppelin Documentary, With Unprecedented Access to Band, Has Been Completed

posted 3 years ago by Satan2016 (26197)
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Critic screening at Venice, reviews coming in. Don't see trailer.

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63377966/?ref_=tt_nwr_1

The project, which was first announced in 2019, has unprecedented access to the band, marking the first and only time the group has participated in a documentary in 50 years. Though 1976 doc “The Song Remains the Same” centred on the band, that was largely a concert film of a series of Madison Square Garden performances in 1973.

“’Becoming Led Zeppelin’ is a film that no one thought could be made,” said MacMahon. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.”

[–] Satan2016 (26197) 3 years ago

Review: Fully Authorized Biodoc Is a Conventional Exploration of the Rock Gods
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/09/becoming-led-zeppelin-review-1234662180/

Unfortunately, it doesn’t help the thesis that this is a golden age of the music documentary. While Haynes and Wright put their own stamp on the genre, MacMahon’s workmanlike film is very much the kind of primer which you might slump in front of on television. It’s efficient and affectionate, but the band’s major contribution to cinema remains the scene in “School of Rock” in which Jack Black demands, “Don’t tell me you guys have never gotten the Led out.”

[–] MartyDeniro (4185) 3 years ago

Unprecedented access usually comes at a price --ie, it's given as long as your doc makes them look they way they want.

[–] Satan2016 (26197) 3 years ago

Teaser clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCvmdKs7Vo

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78561) 2 years ago

It was pretty good though I wanted more wild stories about the band

I read the book, they were maniacs, this was a sanitized version.