One of my favourite films of last year, and easily one of my favourite documentaries of the last few, was Anvil! The Story of Anvil (our review) . The film has been touring through various cities since its premiere at Sundance but no distributor to be found anywhere and outside of a few clips tacked together from the festival, there wasn’t even a trailer for the film. That has now changed.
The film is scheduled to open in the UK on February 20th and I can’t say this enough, if you have the opportunity to see it, SEE IT. Even if you’re not a metal fan, this is will touch your heart (and if it doesn’t then you’re obviously an early incarnation of the android). I hope that the film gets a wider distribution in North America as well – I’d love the opportunity to see it again, this time with a few friends in tow!
Thanks to Jay at The Documentary Blog for the heads up on the trailer. Rock on!
Rock on! This made my top ten of the year as well. I was fortunate enough to see it at an additional screening during Hot Docs with the band showing up for the Q&A – complete with several long time fans in attendance as well.
I remember Anvil from “back in the day” and actually heard a few of their albums (borrowed from a friend who was heavily into metal). Though they didn’t grab me back then (Iron Maiden were the metal band for me), I would’ve bought their new CD coming out of that screening if only they had some left – they sold out before I could get from my seat to their table.
Tremendously entertaining, funny, warm and bittersweet.
Favourite line from the film coming from drummer Robb Reiner: “I can answer that in one, no, two, no, three words…We haven’t got good management”