![]() ![]() We talked to the directors of the Dio documentary and they said one of the tough things about making a film about rock is fighting the Behind The Music template. Behind The Music was always the same story and so fucking boring. I needed their trust and openness and honesty. But they knew I wasn’t going to edit it and make them look bad. ![]() I’d been their roadie and knew them and told them people are going to have to laugh at you and they had to be open to that. ![]() Pursuing that dream is really challenging for some people and the fact that they were willing to share that was incredible. They are touring clubs and sometimes there aren’t people there. GERVASI: This is a movie about what happens to 99 percent of bands. His intention was to do the band good and not fuck us around. We trusted Sacha from the beginning because he is our friend. When you were out there on the road and this was being filmed and there were difficult moments did you ever think it was a bad idea to film everything? Or did you have faith in the process? Without hope, you go into a depressive hole. So this is a story about hope and inspiration. We’ve been cooped up for two years and it’s been a nightmare. It’s about recognizing struggle, whether that is to be an A student or an athlete or a musician or artist. What about the film continues to reach people? Resilience? Hope? Both? If you come to our show you’ll see everything from families to kids who were introduced to us through the movie. Now we’re going to get new fans who discovered us in 2022. STEVE “LIPS” KUDLOW: It’s going to help Anvil reach new kids and not just the people that remembered us from the 80s. Do you find it remarkable that this has an opportunity to kick things into overdrive again 13 years later? The people at (distributor) Utopia said the film just resonated and is still so powerful and would get to people. Over those ten screenings, two distributors heard about the film and that kids were digging it and we got two offers to re-release it. That led to another screening and we ended up doing ten screenings last summer. And this was a story of inspiration and hope and not giving up when the situation is awful. They explained to me that they were coming out of two years of lockdown and on Zoom and stuck at home. I showed them the movie not knowing what would happen and they went crazy. So I invited him to my house to watch the movie and he brought some friends from high school. The last time we were having dinner he said he wanted to see the film because he was four when it came out. SACHA GERVASI (DIRECTOR): It started with my godson who is 17. How did this film end up getting released again? Director (and onetime Anvil roadie) Sacha Gervasi and Anvil mainstays Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner talked to us about the second life of Anvil! The Story Of Anvil. Both director and band say the film’s focus on dreams and hope and enduring hardship resonate more than ever after the worst days of Covid. What started as a one-time screening for a few of the director’s family members turned into ten screenings last summer and then a full theatrical run beginning next week on September 27. The movie’s feel-good story helped fans fall in love with Anvil again and they kept at it.Īlmost inconceivably, the documentary is getting a second life in the post-pandemic era. The band was around at the onset of metal’s second decade and kept at their craft despite every hardship conceivable. The movie went on to win numerous awards and as of today has a whopping 98 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. When the documentary Anvil! The Story Of Anvil was first released in 2008 it became a critical darling. ![]()
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