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Coachella The Film Released Next Year
by Staff | 12.06.2005
All the years of sunburns, hanging out longingly by the coveted VIP tent, one too many trips to the beer garden and watching amazing live sets, we've earned it. The powers that be are releasing Coachella--a film featuring performances from the last six years of America’s most critically acclaimed music festival.
Some performance highlights include show-stoppers from The Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, The Crystal Method, Iggy & The Stooges, Morrissey, Oasis, The Pixies, The Polyphonic Spree, Radiohead and The White Stripes. The film also features appearances from Beck, Josh Homme, Mos Def and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell. The film will debut in theatres in late January 2006 and was directed by Drew Thomas. |
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Hopefully they'll have footage of Andy Dick getting arrested.
"I'll bet any of you lame ass motherfuckers a cigarette I can eat every butt in this ash tray." |
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Depeche Mode win headlining slot at Coachella fest
Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:53 PM ET
By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Veteran electro-pop act Depeche Mode will headline the first night of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (April 29-30) in southern California, sources said Monday.
Additional talent offers are still in the process of being made and the first extensive list of artist announcements is likely several weeks away, they added.
The event, now in its seventh year, will take place, as usual, at the 50,000-capacity Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. Last year's headliners were Coldplay and Nine Inch Nails.
In the meantime, the festival will be the subject of the two-hour retrospective documentary "Coachella," which will premiere January 19 at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theater and roll out January 24 to additional U.S. theaters.
"Coachella" rounds up some of the most iconic performances from throughout the fest's history, stretching back to Morrissey at the inaugural 1999 show up through a 2005 clip of the Arcade Fire. In between is footage of such acts as Bjork, Radiohead, the Pixies, the White Stripes, the Chemical Brothers, Oasis, the Flaming Lips, Iggy & the Stooges, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kool Keith and Beck, among many others.
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http://www.netmusiccountdown.com/inc/news_article.php?id=9370
Coachella Festival Set For April 2006
Depeche Mode rumored to headline the two-day festival.
By Krista Desens
INDIO, CA Wednesday Dec.14.2005 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- The seventh annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is set to take place April 29th and 30th in Southern California, organizers announced this week.
The festival will once again be held in the city of Indio at the Empire Polo Field.
Depeche Mode is rumored to be headlining the first night of Coachella, according to Billboard.com. However, at press time, the official Coachella web site did not list any performers.
The line-up for the two-day festival is expected to be announced in the coming weeks, as acts are confirmed.
Coachella is one of the best known and regarded alternative music festivals in the United States and, in the past, has drawn such acts as Radiohead, Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, Beck, and the Whites Stripes.
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In related news, on January 24th, the documentary "Coachella" will be released in theaters across the US.
Directed by Drew Thomas, the two-hour feature film includes highlights from past Coachella including performances by Radiohead, Oasis, the Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the White Stripes, the Arcade Fire, Morrissey, the Mars Volta, the Chemical Brothers, Bjork, and many more. The "Coachella" documentary also features appearances by Beck and Josh Homme.
For more information on the Coachella Festival or the forthcoming documentary, visit www.Coachella.com.
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Coachella documentary in the works
Over the last several years, the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., has hosted the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and now the event's excitement will be transferred to the big screen.
Coachella, the first documentary about the annual festival, is set for theatrical release Jan. 24. Featuring performances from The Arcade Fire, the Pixies, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Bright Eyes and several others, the film promises to be a fairly comprehensive look at a festival with its finger on the pulse of modern music.
Additionally, the dates for Coachella 2006 have been announced. The festival will be held April 29 and 30 at its usual desert locale. Currently, the only act confirmed is first-day headliner, Depeche Mode, but more will be soon be announced.
For more information, including the lineup as it gets announced and updated, visit www.coachella.com. |
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Contest to win a pass to the movie here.
http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/01/19/when_the_lights_go_down_in_the_city.php
January 19, 2006
When The Lights Go Down In The City
Our concert picks for the week of 1/19-1/25.
One more reason why SF is a great city for music: the feature length film about the annual Coachella music festival is showing here this week. The film showcases one song each from a long list of performers, including Bjork, Radiohead, Oasis, The Crystal Method and many more, plus acts you may not have had the chance to see live like Morrissey, Fischerspooner, Polyphonic Spree, Pixies and Wayne Coyne in his giant plastic bubble. Interspersed throughout are short artist interviews, footage of the concert grounds, vignettes about attendees, shots of art installations and more. The filmmakers portray the event as more of a life experience than merely a weekend-long concert. ("It's as important as a colonic or the right diet," says Perry Farrell.) Watching a windblown Arcade Fire play to an endless crowd beneath a purple desert sunset might inspire you to make the road trip in April.
"Coachella" the film opens on Friday the 20th and runs through 1/26 . Enter to win a pass that's good for the entire run of the film at the Roxie. (Our contest-o-tron will pick a winner at 2pm tomorrow.)
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Alt-rock festival film packs a lot in, but it also lacks a lot
Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Pop Critic
Friday, January 20, 2006
Coachella: Musical documentary.
Starring the Flaming Lips, Pixies and Stooges. Directed by Drew Thomas. (Not rated. 115 minutes. At the Roxie Cinema.)
What does it take to draw jaded Hollywood hipsters out to the barren Southern California desert besides outlet malls, gleaming Indian casinos and the promise of cheap methamphetamines?
Six years ago, the organizers of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival bet that an enormous two-day European-style concert that bills alternative-rock heroes alongside buzz-worthy new bands and fashionable electronic artists would do the trick. Since then, nearly 50,000 music fans from all over the world have faithfully made the annual pilgrimage to a polo field in Indio (Riverside County) to witness once-in-a-lifetime performances by the likes of Radiohead, the Stooges and Pixies, as well as a slew of lesser-known acts that are just as feverishly worshiped.
This documentary attempts to cram all the highlights from the past six years of the festival into just under two hours. Mostly it hits the mark, give or take the odd pointless backstage interview or lingering clip of an inscrutable on-site art installation. But it also leaves out a lot, including much-talked about live sets by Nine Inch Nails, Beck and Queens of the Stone Age. Even last year's headliners Coldplay get the shaft.
Whether this is because of record company intervention or bad judgment is open to question. Either way, it's up to a handful of standout performance clips to make up for it: Belle & Sebastian's euphoric, purple-sunset performance of "The Boy With the Arab Strap"; Morrissey's impassioned reading of "November Spawned a Monster," the only number that prompts a stage invasion by the unusually well-mannered Coachella audience; and the Pixies' all-guns-blazing return with "Where Is My Mind?"
Directed by Drew Thomas, whose previous credits include cinematography on television specials for Carlos Santana and surfer Kelly Slater, the rest of the film has a tentative feel about it, as if it doesn't know what to do between the musical clips. There is a detour about the challenges of keeping a tent up in the windswept desert. There is a dull meeting with nearby fishermen. Thomas even grafts together a fake, inane political debate between spoken-word artist Saul Williams and Oasis' Noel Gallagher, using two entirely unrelated pieces of footage. Why?
Unlike D.A. Pennebaker's great concert documentaries such as "Monterey Pop" and "Don't Look Back," "Coachella" doesn't quite capture the stretches of tedium and fits of excitement that come with actually being at an event like this (and, no, the slow-motion shots of people twirling glow sticks and lasers in the dance tent don't count).
But the film does ultimately get the point across that something special is happening out in the desert, and for its creators, that might just be enough.
-- Advisory: Strong language and shirtless rock stars.
E-mail Aidin Vaziri at avaziri@sfchronicle.com. |
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Coachella on the big screen
Bruce Fessier
The Desert Sun
January 23, 2006
"Coachella," a documentary on the Coachella Valley's most important two-day tourism event, arrives at the Regal Palm Springs Stadium 9 on Tuesday for a one-night-only screening of a film that is generated raves.
Variety calls it, "An excellent overview of the ambiance and showcased talent at arguably the best annual U.S. rock festival."
The film, which premiered Thursday at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, features some of the most important artists to play in the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival since its debut in 1999 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. It features one song each from 25 artists including Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the White Stripes, Bjork, the Pixies, Oasis, Morrissey, the Mars Volta, Kool Keith and Prodigy.
It also captures the annual festival's ambiance by showing the uniqueness of its fans and their interaction with the performers and the interactive art pieces that help define the festival.
Promoter Paul Tollett of Goldenvoice, which produces the film and the festival, said first-time director Drew Thomas and his crew began filming the festivals to document the bands in its first year. He said they began trying to capture the flavor of Coachella after deciding to seek a theater release last year.
"We think it represents what going to Coachella is like," Tollett said. "That's the main thing we're trying to get across - not necessarily to put it next to other festival films throughout the years - (but) the feeling of going to the show."
Festival documentaries have been rare since MTV began producing musical biographies, and record labels and publishers became more proprietary about the music and images of their artists.
"Coachella" doesn't include appearances by such major past acts as the Cure, the Killers, Rage Against the Machine, Moby, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age and Beck, although Beck and QOTSA leader Josh Homme are interviewed in the film.
Tollett said that was only partly due to licensing problems.
"It's a combination of what we were able to film, what we could afford to film, what film came out that wasn't dark," he said. "It mostly just comes down to your resources."
Goldenvoice wasn't able to secure last year's headliners, Coldplay and Nine Inch Nails, even though Coachella gave their most recent CDs a huge boost.
"It's been difficult," Tollett said. "No one's been hard to deal with, there's just been a lot of bureaucracy. I didn't realize how slow that it was."
But "Coachella" captures the multidimensional feel of the event, starting with its brief history on the east valley.
The film starts with reggae rapper Spearhead speaking intelligently about the war in Iraq, which is representative of the level of discourse at the festival.
This festival isn't just a lot of ranting and raving about youth-oriented liberal politics.
The early segments also capture the fun and confusion of the early hours of the event. Viewers see a concertgoer who has lost a friend who has all her money. There's a woman who says she was trying to find a hotel online and "everyone was laughing" at her futile efforts. And there's a guy walking around with his head in a small aquarium of water, reflecting the need to have lots of water on the hot Coachella days.
The melodious Belle & Sebastian also are seen messing around on the song, "The Boy With the Arab Strap," which is typical of daytime acts having trouble connecting to the hot and restless daytime audiences.
The film begins to pick up when Thomas shows some cinematic style in capturing Cut Chemist and Nu Mark in a DJ duel that creates a ripple through a tent audience. That provides just a taste of what it's like in those sauna-like tents, where the music is so powerful it's impossible to stand still no matter how hot it is.
Perry Farrell, the Jane's Addiction frontman who has played every Coachella, makes an important point about another of the festival's secrets to success. While you may not be able to trust radio and most music providers to offer a consistently high level of music, "you can put your faith in Coachella," he says.
The film doesn't build to a linear climax and that, too, is consistent with Coachella. The great music spreads out, adding canvases to fill by showcasing diverse musical genres. As at the festival, if one genre doesn't thrill, there's another down the way.
That's how this festival film differs from other festival films such as the "Monterey Pop" DVD, which reveals how rock became a cultural force, but features more songs by the Mamas and the Papas than Janis Joplin.
"Coachella" is filled with historical moments in its two hours. It shows the performance by the Pixies in 2004 that cemented their place in pop music history. There's also the reunited Iggy & the Stooges performing "I Wanna Be Your Dog" as if they were 30 years younger.
And it sidesteps the flaws of other festival films by depicting a representative slice of life without turning it into a showcase for one particular act.
"Coachella" deserves a place in the pantheon of great festival documentaries, although Tollett says that wasn't the film's point.
"You can't re-create those films," he said. "You have to do the best you can based on what your show is."
http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/profile/284415?cslink=cs_movies_2_3
Movie
Coachella Premiere 
For one night only (Jan. 24), see performance footage from the Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Bjork, the Pixies and more former stars of the sweaty, dusty desert music fest that is Coachella.
Rated: R
Length: 02:00
Movie Info
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Distribution: NCM
Movie Profile
While the music world waits with bated breath for Coachella to unveil its 2006 lineup, the festival has produced a documentary starring, well, itself. The reel includes live footage from the likes of the Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Bjork, the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Kool Keith, Iggy & the Stooges, Radiohead and more bands that have performed at the sweaty, dusty desert music fest over the years.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 on the day of the screening, which is Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. It will be playing at various movie theaters throughout the county and in Irvine too.
Coachella will be held at the Indio Polo Fields near Palm Springs on April 29 and 30.
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Coachella the Movie...Woodstock for the New Millenium at a Theatre Near You!
By June Caldwell
January 25, 2006
Coachella, the documentary, features two-hours of highlights from the previous six years of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Check it out at theatres in your area. Visit www.coachella.com for more information on the movie and presale for the festival.
Reviewed as described by Rodger Caldwell:
How can you capture the vibe of that pagan love-fest in the desert disguised as Coachella Arts & Music Festival in 500 words or less? Ya can’t. However in a documentary film you can at least capture enough to stir up the imagination of those who have never been & to awaken the memories of those who have & make them say, and I quote one festival goer from the film that was heard to say while crossing the Mexican border “I don’t care what I have to do… I am going to Coachella!”
The first few segments where you are weaving out into the desert with the freeway signs whipping past you (with increasingly mysterious sounding Indian desert street names) capture that feeling of excitement & anticipation of going to an adventure on that other planet…. Coachella…. that mythical, surreal planet that enlivens our senses, propels us into a mystical dream state for two days & then when its done leaves us dazed & disoriented knowing we can never go back to our old lives, our old jobs, our view of the world we came from forever changed, & musing over returning next year to the desert once again to do it all over in a completely different way.
Some of the more memorable clips from the film were performances that I wish I had not missed. The compelling beauty of Bjork’s voice, the musical artistry of Flea & John Frusciante classically toned duet intro to Caifornication, the Pixies hypnotizing us w/ harmonies & lyrics that leave us for days after wondering, “What is that song about?”, Radiohead with their layer upon layer of mind altering sound. The list goes on….
The rest of it made me grateful to have been there for unforgettable moments that are forever planted in my psyche.
As the sun sets, Wayne Coyne, frontman for the Flaming Lips, goes for a stroll across the crowd in his Space Ball & emerges to lead us in the world’s largest & best singalong version of Yoshimi & the Pink Robots, the Chemical Brothers fill the tent to capacity until the party spills out on all sides into the desert night that is now a thick blanket of darkness broken up by distant stage lighting & random lasers highlighting silhouetted partiers dancing till they drop, only to rise again the next day & do it again.
You can’t capture it in words, but the film captures just enough to put you there momentarily. Pulls you out of your seat into that place of mind where you know… I am going to Coachella! |
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Film documents renowned music festival
Leonard Martinez
El Paso Times
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Each spring for the past six years, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been one of the most popular live concerts put on, showcasing dozens of the biggest bands.
It is a who's who of the best from rock to alternative to hip-hop and dance music.
If you were one of the thousands who attended one of the festivals at the polo field in Indio, Calif., or wish you had, you now get a chance to get a condensed look at it through the documentary film, "Coachella." The film will be shown this weekend at the Telshor 12, 2811 N. Telshor, in Las Cruces.
Rolling Stone magazine has called the festival "The Best American Festival," and England's NME has called Coachella "probably the best festival in the world."
The bands in the two-hour film include The Arcade Fire, Morrissey, Bjork, The Mars Volta, and Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
For many, though, Coachella 2004 is the most unforgettable. Besides the above-100-degree temperatures, it featured a concert lineup that is never likely to be topped.
Several performers from 2004 are featured in the film, including Belle and Sebastian, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips and the Pixies.
"The Pixies took it all," said Central resident Cilla Calderon, who attended Coachella in 2004. "Just to see them get back together and play that well was great. I had seen Frank Black (Pixies lead singer) perform solo before, but this was the best I had seen him perform."
The film is in extremely limited release across the country; only a handful of theaters are showing the film, mostly for only three days at a time.
Leonard Martinez may be reached at lmartinez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6152.
Leonard Martinez / El Paso Times
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2004.
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=37562&category=22133
We Know Where the Action Is! • Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2006
Hippies Ruin Everything
It's a Fact, and Coachella's No Exception
BY ERIK HENRIKSEN
The idea of the concert film is simple: Capture a live performance and make it accessible for wider or repeated viewing. Problem is, you can count on one hand the number of truly great concert films—turns out that for a concert to make the leap from the stage to celluloid, it needs to be one hell of a show.
Likewise, the appeal of the music festival is a simple one—to create a wide-ranging, long-lasting showcase of different musicians, styles, and performances.
So—in theory, at least—it's hard to fault Coachella, a concert film that showcases some of the biggest performances from the Coachella Valley Music Festival. But while there are a couple of killer performances, none of them quite transcend the shift in mediums—and what's worse, you're stuck watching all the really crappy artists too. Unlike a real music fest—where you can wander off to find something else if you're not digging who's on one stage—here you're stuck watching whatever the filmmakers find interesting.
So, here's the good stuff (at least for me, and of course this is just absurdly subjective): A solid/standard White Stripes performance, a pleasant appearance from Belle & Sebastian, a fun/depressing turn by Iggy and the Stooges, Björk, the Pixies, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, a so-so Fischerspooner bit, and Wayne Coyne crowd surfing inside a giant plastic bubble.
But that adds up to about a third of Coachella's running time, which means you've also got to listen to that retard from Spearhead, or a lullaby from Oasis, or some of Bright Eyes' whining, or Kool Keith (?) dressed up as Elvis (!?), or an amazingly embarrassing bit from Prodigy. And then there are the bands that're hard to summon any reaction to at all: the Chemical Brothers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morrissey, and Zero 7. And then there are the MOTHERFUCKING HIPPIES. Hearing some douche wax poetic about how music is an "escape" to a "land of dream" isn't the thing I'd want to do at the real Coachella, and it isn't what I want to hear in a film about it, either. After all, what's the point of making a movie if you can't edit out the shitty performances? And the hippies?
Coachella
dir. Thomas
Opens Fri Feb 24
Clinton St. Theater
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/BREAKING/302280004
The Coachella festival has grown into what many critics call the most important alternative festival in the world and a recently released documentary film made over several years shows moments of music history made there, including the reunion of The Pixies.
http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/01/4406143087788
Coachella (the movie)
The festival may rock, but the film is a flop
By Nick Buono
March 01, 2006
When I first heard about the Coachella Festival when it started many years ago, I was excited about the idea and disappointed that I couldn’t attend. After all, Iggy and the Stooges were to be performing, and it would have been worth any price to me to see that. After seeing “Coachella,” a documentary that combines interviews with fans and performers with a selection of performances from the last two festivals, I am happy to say that I am no longer disappointed at my failure to attend this event. Why, you ask? Simply put, if the festival is anything even remotely like this film, then it is something that I would go far, far out of my way to avoid.
The backbone of any good documentary is its interviews, and “Coachella” is sorely lacking in this arena. Most of the time the filmmakers seem to focus wholeheartedly on finding the most stoned person in the entire crowd and asking them to elaborate on the meaning of the festival, which ultimately leads to 10 minutes of regurgitated, stale flower-power bullshit about the musician’s responsibility to share energy with the attendees, or a pseudo-political rant about the power of people united against evil.
The funniest part about it is that, while going on and on about materialism and greed, no one seems to notice that everyone there paid $200 to get their dreadlocked heads into the damn festival. The filmmakers never really bothered to interview any musicians, either, with the notable exceptions of Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and Noel Gallagher from Oasis, who unsurprisingly chided the naiveté of everyone at the festival’s boring “summer of love” attitude. And that’s it for the interviews. No elucidation on the festival’s history and origins, examination of different perspectives on the event, or anything relevant and interesting like that, just some doofus-y white kids with activist complexes spouting the same “music is togetherness” bullshit we’ve all heard a hundred million times.
Despite these crippling flaws, the film does manage to have some entertaining performances, which couldn’t save it from being an utter waste of time, but at least punctuated the grueling ordeal with moments of enjoyment. Iggy and the Stooges, being the greatest rock band in history, ended up dominating the rest of the acts. I’ve never seen anyone so sinewy as Iggy, and his dancing skills haven’t faded with age.
The White Stripes turned in a so-so “Hotel Yorba.” I really would have preferred a higher energy song to rouse me from my near catatonic state, but it was nevertheless a highlight.
Bjork was of course good, but it’s fun just to look at her so she really couldn’t have fucked anything up on stage. The Flaming Lips did an alright “Yoshimi.” The Pixies’ performance of “Where Is My Mind” clearly showcased Kim Deal’s overall badassery. I would have preferred a different song, but as with all the other acts in the film, the band was shown playing its main hit, which I thought was an annoying and hacky move on the filmmakers’ part. It just gave me the impression that no one involved in the film knew anything at all about music, which is too bad since Coachella brings together a diverse slew of musical acts.
The movie also forces you to sit through some truly bad, and many irrelevant, performances. Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst lost-little-boy whimpering was brutal, and the shots of crying, bandanna-clad girls in the audience brought forth the bile from the back of my throat. The awfully overrated Morrissey performed, with bouncers prying middle-aged women off him for his entire set. The mere existence of The Prodigy is embarrassing, let alone seeing their baggy-pantsed selves jumping around the stage. And, while I admit that I once enjoyed The Chemical Brothers, their set was so boring to watch that any fond remembrances I might have had of them are now completely erased.
Another inexplicable inclusion in the film was a whole group of fringe electronica acts that I had never heard of, which might have been interesting if a) they hadn’t sucked and b) their sets hadn’t been accompanied by video medleys of people dancing with fucking glow sticks. I mean, come on people, what is this, 1996? And this happened during like three or four performances, so it wasn’t just a filmmaking fluke. Nope, the director intentionally scheduled several five-minute blocks for the burned-out raver montage.
I could go on forever about this movie, but at the risk of alienating you, dear reader, with my invective, I will say this: If you have two hours to kill and don’t plan on paying attention all the time, rent this when it comes out for the handful of good musical performances. Being trapped in a theater hearing every hemp-headed bozo’s comments about “togetherness, man,” was truly excruciating. I wouldn’t wish that on my enemies, let alone you.
Swan song: Bjork’s performance at Coachella is one of the highlights of the film. |
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 6:00 pm
GO COACHELLA Just as SoCal was ripe for a multigenre, Euro-style music festival, so was Coachella ready for a documentary that captured the euphoric excitement of watching live bands and dancing to pulsating electronica in a sweaty, glow-stick-lit tent. Director Drew Thomas forgoes focusing on the festival’s history — Goldenvoice president and Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett makes only a brief appearance — and much of the backstage antics in favor of on-the-stage and on-the-field action, from fan and artist testimonials (“When I was in college, it was the Pixies and R.E.M. that changed my life,” proclaims Radiohead’s Thom Yorke) to six years’ worth of performances: Iggy Pop, all rippling muscles and bulging veins; the Prodigy, all incoherent scowling; and the Mars Volta, all jerky fits and guitar-swinging antics that are straight out of Santana doing “Soul Sacrifice” during Woodstock. (Mind-altering drugs, dancing to tribal beats, one regrettably spotted Dead sweater: Aren’t we really just this generation’s hippies?) From the swaying palm trees to the desert sun dipping behind the San Jacinto Mountains, Coachella imparts a fly-on-the-speakers feel, especially when Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips decides to roll over the audience in a giant plastic bubble like a human beach ball. But all this love for the mom-and-pop, alterna-indie, little festival that could — going against what Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has called a “giant, corporate, kiss-ass, stiff affair” — nevertheless raises the question: Why Madonna? (Selected theaters) (Siran Babayan) |
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Posted on Tue, Apr. 18, 2006
'Coachella' on DVD inspires
SOLVEJ SCHOU
Associated Press
Various Artists, "Coachella" (Goldenvoice/Anti-)
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is California's premier Woodstock-esque mecca, an indie ode to music spanning two days, multiple genres and thousands of fans since its 1999 inception.
"Coachella," the DVD of the feature film chronicling the festival's six-year rise, is being released as anticipation builds for this year's heat-soaked explosion of bands on April 29 and 30.
In trying to capture the Indio, Calif.-fest's feisty, sun-burnt ethos, the movie has mostly succeeded.
First of all, it's beautifully filmed, from shots of attendees baking underneath blue skies to attention-grabbing sculptures.
But it's the performances - ranging from Iggy Pop and Radiohead to the Pixies and the White Stripes - that indeed rock, reminding us why Coachella has soared where Lollapalooza dropped off.
A twisted seizure of muscle and veins, Iggy Pop brings his audience to a collective boil performing "I Wanna Be Your Dog" with his '70s band the Stooges.
Eccentric rapper Kool Keith lends some hip-hop cred, while pop-rock ensemble the Arcade Fire roars through "Rebellion (Lies)" as wind and dirt swirl, a moment almost poetic in its energy.
Interjected into the mix are philosophical ramblings from a spate of musicians, including Oasis' always dry-witted Noel Gallagher, and politically minded poet Saul Williams.
Yes, the film leaves out memorable performers such as Jane's Addiction and spastic dance troupe Junior Senior. And the DVD's extras section should have been padded with music footage.
But the film itself shines with the healthy glow of a festival boosted by the quality of its lineup, and supported by its fans.
Same thing here-oddly, with a couple of bits taken out:
http://www.newsone.ca/piercelandherald/stories/news-00177631.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/weekend/14390964.htm
Posted on Fri, Apr. 21, 2006
Coachella,a musical stunner
By Rob Watson
Inquirer Staff Writer
It wasn't supposed to be this way.
Dan DeLuca's article on the Thrilladelphia Music Festival had no influence on this reviewer's picking the Coachella DVD, a documentary chronicling six years of performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival held at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif.
It just turned out that way, stars being aligned and all that. The coincidence works totally in your favor, though.
Like Thrilladelphia, Coachella is about progressive music experiences, but on a much larger scale. It's the kind of festival that Lollapalooza creator Perry Farrell envisioned before the commercial entities stepped in and ruined it. With eight stages encompassing hip-hop, electronic, rock and folk, mixed with some really "out-there" art exhibitions and films, Coachella already is being compared to a Woodstock-like experience. Somewhere around 100,000 people attend the two-day affair on the last weekend in April every year.
The performances on the DVD are simply stunning. Acts including the Mars Volta, Bjork, Radiohead, the White Stripes, Morrissey, Nu-Mark and Cut Chemist, Saul Williams, Squarepusher, and many others (yes, there are more) take the stage. Most of these groups wouldn't even exist if it weren't for bands such as the Pixies, Iggy and the Stooges, and the Black Elvis himself, rapper Kool Keith. Those groundbreakers perform as well.
Seeing Iggy still trying to wreck the stage (thank goodness someone was smart enough to strap down the speakers) while plowing through "I Wanna Be Your Dog," a throng of thousands singing along to "Where Is My Mind" by the reunited Pixies, or Kool Keith "smackin' them up" in the techno tent will take you to another level. If you aren't there already.
In addition to the music, in some clips fans criticize their tents or tickets, artists discuss their odd works (pedal-powered Ferris wheels, metal dragonflies, and fire-breathing robots, for instance), and musicians such as Mos Def and Beck chime in about how important Coachella is, not just for fans but for them as well.
The second disc has interviews with musicians, artists and fans. These are all pretty short and pretty inconsequential. We would have preferred more history about the event, but after seeing the main feature that might be a little greedy.
A large collection of photos and concert posters from every year of the festival rounds out the second disc, most of which also are in the collector's booklet. If there were a way to print large versions of these for your private consumption, it might be worth the effort. No one here has tried, though.
The disappointing extras shouldn't play a part in deciding whether to purchase this disc. All the talented bands here are too important, the performances too strong, and the crowds too appreciative not to listen, watch and maybe dance.
Coachella
With Spearhead, the White Stripes, Bjork, Radiohead, the Pixies, Iggy and the Stooges, Mos Def, Beck.
Price:$29.98
(2 discs)
Parent's guide: R (profanity)
The movie:Not reviewed.
The extras: ** Interviews, slide shows, poster art, keepsake booklet.
Contact staff writer Rob Watson at 215-854-5608 or rwatson@phillynews.com.
http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=21986
DVD Review
Monday, April 24, 2006
Various Artists COACHELLA
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has firmly established itself as the United States' quintessential postmodern musical jamboree in little over half a decade. In the wake of the alterna-stench of Lollapalooza and the violent hippie nightmare of Woodstock '99, Coachella has surpassed considerable odds to become the congregation of choice for some of today's most forward-thinking artists, both big and small. To celebrate this burgeoning legacy comes the new retrospective documentary, simply titled "Coachella," which compiles some of the festival's most memorable moments since its birth in 1999.
The newly released DVD acts as a sampler plate of sorts, offering up a small taste of performances by Bjork, Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the White Stripes, the Arcade Fire and many others.
Aside from the big-name attractions, the film has modest representation of the musical acts that share Coachella's smaller stages, from the sweaty, neon orgies of the dance tents (where Fischerspooner delivers a Zoolander-esque performance) to outdoor deejay sets from Nu-Mark and Cut Chemist.
Some highlights include a joyous Radiohead performing "Planet Telex" from their 2004 headlining slot. And what would any decent Coachella documentary be without Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tumbling around in his giant inflatable "space bubble" on top of a mass of sweaty twentysomethings?
And of course there are awe-inspiring performances from the reunited Pixies, who perform their classic "Where is My Mind?" and the Stooges with "I Wanna Be Your Dog." What's here is great, but you'll be pining for footage of entire sets from these bands after seeing these cruelly short snippets.
As a film whose primary concern is the music, "Coachella" does a surprisingly good job at documenting the many aspects of attending the concert that are separate from the musical scavenger hunt. Concert-goers are shown dealing with smoldering heat, getting lost from friends and feebly trying to set up tents in the unforgiving desert wind.
Elsewhere in the film, Belle & Sebastian performs a quiet passage from "The Boy With the Arab Strap" when suddenly Dave Grohl's manic howl penetrates the sound barrier from a nearby stage, dropping a heavy metal deuce all over the unsuspecting Scots. But hey, that's rock n' roll, right?
The film also draws attention to the fact that with such a wide range of music, the experience is entirely different depending on whom you ask, including the artists. In one of the film's most intriguing moments, spoken-word and hip-hop artist Saul Williams expresses the importance of rock festivals as potential political forums, while a typically sour Noel Gallagher of Oasis argues for the shut-up-and-play mentality. Perhaps the only message here is that Coachella functions best as an open-air festival in the most laissez-faire sense. As the Pixies' Kim Deal sings at one point, "You've got your good thing, and I've got mine."
So in the end, what does the film achieve? Well, it's an even smaller sampling of the massive cross-cultural and stylistic cornucopia that the festival tries to represent. It's also a poor substitute for attending the concert, since everything here is merely touched-up cursorily.
Yet while neither a completely satisfying concert film nor documentary, "Coachella" feels like it succeeds on its own terms. The film illustrates that the experience of the concert is as much about unity and the celebration of life and art as it is about getting your rocks off. Fans and artists alike gush in disbelief that they're about to see the Pixies perform, and let's face it, that is pretty sweet. It's a loving if not nostalgic reflection that functions above all else as a great souvenir for anyone who was there.
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I bought it and watched it. It felt like something I would do as a documentary - try to capture the feeling of being at the festival, and I think it succeeded. In DTS, the soundtrack is spectacular.
I enjoyed all of the musical performances, and also the candid conversations with the artists and fans alike.
It seems like a majority of people enjoyed this film, but I'm mystified at some of the negative reviews which didn't like some of the very things I thought were great about it. The feeling of community, the "hippies", the varying political and musical viewpoints? Those are negative things? I don't think so.
The only thing I didn't like was that 1) It ended. I was ready for a disc 2 of more performances. The second disc has a couple fairly worthless, very short interviews and some pictures. That's it. 2) The final performance from Zero 7, a band I like when Sia's singing. The guy, I don't care for. Mediocre song to end the movie with from a band with son many great songs. Bleh.
Otherwise, awesome!
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Wouldn’tstock
Kids today and their crazy, far-out rock ’n’ roll music
~ By ANDY KLEIN ~
 iven my relative senescence, there is no way for me to write
about the two-DVD set Coachella: The Film without first putting on my geezer hat. (It’s a lovely gray fedora with a slightly curved brim, and, lemme tell ya, the chicks go for it in a big way. That Estelle Getty nearly jumped my bones.) There ya go … .
The Coachella Festival? Isn’t that the big carrot expo Bugs Bunny was heading for when he made that left turn at Albuquerque? Is this a movie about root vegetables? What? Speak up, dammit! Directly into the horn! It’s a music festival? In a nice, sunny locale in California? A convenient drive from L.A.?
You whippersnappers! Why, when I was your age, we slogged 10 miles through freezing mud to go to music festivals … high on bad drugs … waiting for the inevitable violence! And you know why?
Because we were idiots, that’s why. What the fuck were we thinking?
To judge by Drew Thomas’s film, things are a lot better organized now, which also means less daring and edgy, but then daring and edgy kinda lose their charm when you’re soaked to the bone and haven’t slept in 48 hours and are surrounded by smiling, floriferous morons.
Coachella may not be Woodstock – for better or worse – but Thomas’s film certainly shows the influence of Michael Wadleigh’s 1970 documentary of that event, what with the various musical acts intercut with interview snippets of musicians and attendees alike, and some judiciously applied split-screen editing and aerial shots. On the up side, Thomas allows most of the acts to play an entire song; on the down side, he occasionally cranks down the sound in the middle of the song in order to aurally superimpose an artist interview.
Among the roughly 25 numbers – apparently assembled from several years’ worth of festivals – are a bunch of good things. Björk’s “All Is Full of Love” is great, plus it’s nice for us film buffs to see her without a blowhole and not being abused by Lars von Trier. The Pixies play both a brief “In Heaven” and a fine “Where Is My Mind?”
I appreciate Iggy Pop as a cultural icon and all, but I thought the music sucked 35 years ago, and I still do. Oasis and the Polyphonic Spree do some good retro pop, though the latter should really get new outfits. But Morrissey? What the fuck? I can do an off-key Bryan Ferry impression too. And how old is that guy? He makes Iggy look like a junior citizen.
The roster is pretty deficient in black acts, but then, compared to the audience, the stage looks like Showtime at the Apollo. (Amusingly, the black attendees we hear the most from are a middle-aged trio who never heard of the festival, but stumbled upon it while out fishing.)
It’s comforting to know that there are still wholesome activities to keep middle-class white suburbanites off the streets (and out of the malls).
Speaking of wholesome, one big difference between Coachella and Woodstock is that there’s barely a mention of sex or drugs in the film; rock ’n’ roll must feel lonesome.
The film is on disc one; the extras on disc two are pretty disposable and badly programmed. There are galleries of posters and photos; and 18 interview snippets, ranging from 20 seconds to about eight minutes, totaling something under an hour. Unfortunately, there’s no “play all” function, and the end of each snippet returns you to the top item on the menu page, so you have to click around a bunch to find the next track.
Likewise, the packaging is pretty but ill thought out. There are no useful notes. The back of the slipcase has no info other than a list of participants. Inside is a booklet of some 40 pages, all but two of which are devoted to photos and graphics. On those two pages, you can find a list of songs and credits, but without reference to the DVD’s track numbers. And that’s if you can actually read the info, which is not only printed in one of the tiniest available font sizes but also has the song titles “highlighted” in dark green on a black background. : 
Coachella: The Film. Directed by Drew Thomas. With the Pixies, Oasis, Björk, Iggy & the Stooges, Morrissey, Radiohead, and others. Epitaph/WEA; two discs, $29.98.
04-27-06
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/scoop_more.php?id=70568_0_21_0_C
‘Coachella: The Film” presents an overview of
modern rock
‘Coachella: The Film” Three-and-a-half stars (out of 5)
By Mike Moody
The Brownsville Herald
“Coachella: The Film” features great performances by the alternative rock
heavies and up-and-coming artists who have drawn thousands to Southern
California’s annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival since 1999.
The film falters with middling artist and fan interviews about the festival’s
significance.
The DVD, released this month by Epitaph/Wea, presents the beautifully filmed
live performances in high quality sound. The lineup reads like a who’s who of
modern rock, pop and hip-hop including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis,
Morrissey, Kool Keith, Radiohead and many more.
After a pithy history lesson about Coachella Valley — it’s big, hot and surrounded
by desert — the film’s performances kick off with a set by political rappers
Spearhead.
The film unnecessarily cuts back-and-forth from Spearhead’s performance to an
interview with head Spear Michael Franti. He explains his stance on the Iraq war
and politics in general but covers little more than what’s already presented in his
stage act.
Fortunately, the film keeps this intercutting to a minimum, mostly packaging the
interviews in between performances.
Highlights include the 2004 reunion of legendary alt.rockers the Pixies. The band
leaves the crowd in awe with a perfect rendition of “Where is My Mind.”
Scottish chamber pop heroes Belle & Sebastian turn the stage into a dance floor
while running through “The Boy with the Arab Strap” and The White Stripes offer
a raucous blues funk version of “Hotel Yorba.” Iggy and the Stooges sound
surprisingly powerful — considering they’re all pushing 60 — pounding through
“I Wanna Be Your Dog.”
Bjork remains cute and captivating singing the slo-mo ballad ”All is Full of Love”
and the quirky elec-tro-pop troupe Fischerspooner hypnotize fans with pulsating
beats and a bizarre stage show.
Baroque rockers The Arcade Fire, Austin’s Polyphonic Spree and DJ Cut Chemist
don’t disappoint with their live sets.
Music fandom is at the center of the film, with artists like Queens of the Stone
Age frontman Josh Homme and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta
confessing their affection for Iggy and the Stooges.
“He looks like a piece of chewed up wire,” Homme says about Iggy Pop.
Even Beck and The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne take a few seconds to gush
about their favorite artists.
The film ends with performances by U.K. trip-hop act Zero 7 and Coyne crowd
surfing inside a giant plastic bubble during the Flaming Lips live performance of
“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.”
It’s easy to whine about the number of Coachella performances by great artists
the film leaves out — no Mos Def, Gang of Four, Wilco or Weezer? — but,
hopefully, they’ll be in the sequel.
mmoody@brownsvilleherald.com
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds32540.html
Coachella Festival movie to be released
Saturday, May 6 2006, 04:37 BST - by Dave West
A film about the Coachella Festival will be released next month.
The feature-length production – called Coachella - will offer performances from the
festival's six-year past.
These will include Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Pixies, The White Stripes and
Morrissey.
A bonus DVD will contain over an hour of interviews with artists including Tenacious D,
The Bravery and Belle & Sebastian, and a gallery of over 300 exclusive photos from the
event in California.
http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2006/04April/MusicNews10-Coachella.htm
You can also check out the ghost of Coachella past with their
new DVD release, which is the same presentation that
swept through theaters earlier this year. It's out now and
features Radiohead, Bjork, Pixies, White Stripes, Iggy &
The Stooges and more.. It was directed by Drew Thomas
and will also feature interviews with past performers and a
photo gallery from all of the previous six years of
festivalness.
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060418/EVENTS17/604180304/1050
'Coachella' documentary is an overview of rock
Bruce Fessier
The Desert Sun
April 18, 2006
"Coachella," a documentary on the Coachella Valley's biggest pop music
event, arrives today in Coachella Valley stores.
The film, edited from footage of the first six Coachella Music and Arts
Festivals at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, earned raves for its January
theatrical release.
Variety called it, "An excellent overview of the ambiance and showcased
talent at arguably the best annual U.S. rock festival."
The film premiered at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles and had
one-time screenings around the country, including Regal's Palm Springs
Stadium 9.
The film features songs from 25 artists including Radiohead, the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, the White Stripes, Bjork, the Pixies, Oasis, Morrissey,
the Mars Volta, Kool Keith and Prodigy.
It also captures the unique fan interaction with the performers and
interactive art pieces.
The 2006 Coachella festival is April 29-30 in Indio.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/movies/14374734.htm
Posted on Fri, Apr. 21, 2006
LACK OF PALOOZA
'Coachella' concert DVD notable mostly for what it left out
By Jen Chaney
THE WASHINGTON POST
The Coachella festival might not have the name recognition of, say, a Lollapalooza or a
Vans Warped Tour. But in the indie-rock world, it's considered the queen mother of
music shows, a freewheeling, two-day concert held each year in Indio, Calif., that
showcases the best artists in alternative, electronica, hip-hop and reggae music.
This year's Coachella fest is April 29-30, which makes this week's release of the
concert film Coachella on DVD a timely one. Featuring interviews with fans and
snippets of performances by Bjork, Bright Eyes, the Flaming Lips, Belle & Sebastian,
the Stooges, the Pixies and many others, it's a beautifully photographed, kaleidoscopic
overview of the energetic musical celebration's six-year history.
But as pretty as Coachella looks, the DVD ultimately disappoints. Dull interviews with
the throngs of concert-goers who camp out every year -- giving the concert the much-
ballyhooed vibe of a modern-day Woodstock -- provide little context for the Coachella-
clueless.
Musically, several of the performances soar, particularly the Arcade Fire's spirited
version of Rebellion (Lies) and the Flaming Lips' typically trippy take on Yoshimi Battles
the Pink Robots. But with six years' worth of stellar lineups, there should be more
concert footage to relish. The list of superb bands omitted from the DVD -- Wilco,
Jane's Addiction, the Roots, Beck, the Doves -- goes on and on. Clearly it would be
impossible to include them all in a two-hour movie. But the second disc of bonus
material seems like the perfect place to add the songs and sets that had to be cut. And
yet, astonishingly, the extras don't include a single minute of music; instead, we get
additional interview snippets, photos, and that's it.
With several concert movies breaking new ground in theaters -- Dave Chappelle's
Block Party and the Beastie Boys' Awesome; I ... Shot That! among them -- it's a shame
Coachella doesn't continue the trend on the small screen. As a member of the Latino
funk band Kinky says during one of the bonus interviews, "The people who come here
really come for the music, not for all the bull--." Amen, my brother.
Most Unsettling Bonus: The Art of Recycling snippet, found on the bonus disc, allows
viewers to peek at an exhibit of elaborately decorated recycling bins displayed at last
year's Coachella festival. The most disturbing contribution comes from the late Hunter
S. Thompson, who committed suicide last February. His bin is indented in several
spots by pellets shot from a BB gun, a bizarre precursor to the gunshot wound he
would eventually inflict upon himself.
dvd review
'Coachella'
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· Coachella (R) The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival annually
brings together some of the biggest names in music along with buzzed-about
up-and-comers. This concert DVD features performances by the Arcade
Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Björk, Bright Eyes, the Chemical Brothers,
the Crystal Method, Fischerspooner, the Flaming Lips, Iggy & the
Stooges, Kool Keith, the Mars Volta, Morrissey, Nu-Mark & Cut
Chemist, Oasis, Pixies, the Polyphonic Spree, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Roni Size, Saul Williams, Spearhead, Squarepusher, the White
Stripes and Zero 7. There are also interviews with the likes of Belle &
Sebastian, Ben Harper, Mos Def, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis, Tenacious D
and Thievery Corp.
http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/22975
Coachella movie on the way
Radiohead, The White Stripes and Pixies
feature
A feature length film about the Coachella Festival
is to be released next month.
'Coachella', out June 19, features performances
from a host of the stars from the Californian bash's
six-year history. Among those featured are
Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Pixies, The White
Stripes and Morrissey.
A bonus DVD features over an hour of unseen
interviews, including Tenacious D, Kinky, Rilo
Kiley, The Bravery, Thievery Corporation, Mos
Def and Belle & Sebastian.
There will also be a bonus photo gallery of over 300
exclusive photos from Coachella's six-year history,
as well as guest appearances by Beck, Josh
Homme, Mos Def and Perry Farrell.
For the full lowdown on this year's Coachella, be
sure to get next week's NME, dated May 13, on sale
nationwide from Wednesday May 10 at all good
newsagents.
Radiohead
Picture: Sebastian Artz
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2003048884_coachella09.html
Friday, June 9, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Movie Review
"Coachella": Cutting-edge sounds — with
little talk
By Patrick MacDonald
Seattle Times music critic
"Coachella" captures the fun, beauty and
excitement of the annual summertime
rock festival of the same name, held on
the wide green expanse of a polo field
surrounded by palm trees and mountains
in Indio, Calif.
The film shows the sun-drenched days,
purple and gold sunsets and nights bright
with laser beams, strings of colored
lights and fire-breathing "monsters," like
those at the annual desert hippie
happening, Burning Man.
But the movie concentrates on what has
made Coachella one of the most
successful festivals in the world: cutting-
edge music.
More than two dozen acts are featured,
ranging from established envelope-
pushers, like Iggy & the Stooges, Red
Hot Chili Peppers and the Pixies, to new
ones, including the Arcade Fire, Bright
Eyes and the Mars Volta.
Each one gets at least one full song,
uninterrupted by the usual cutting away
to interviews, backstage shots, etc. So
you get Morrissey crawling on the stage
and lying on his back while singing the
witty, stinging "November Spawned A
Monster." You see the Flaming Lips'
Wayne Coyne roll across the
outstretched hands of the crowd in a
clear plastic bubble, during "Yoshimi
Battles The Pink Robots," and marvel at
Björk in yet another ugly, cumbersome
dress (like a white garbage bag with a
green sash), warbling "All Is Full Of Love."
Some of the best music comes from the lesser-knowns, including rocking hip-
hopper Kool Keith and rap group Zero 7. There are some short interviews of
concertgoers and entertainers, but they're seldom interesting or informative.
"Coachella" is having its Seattle premiere today through Thursday at
Northwest Film Forum. It was released on video April 18, with a bonus DVD of
other performances and a photo gallery from the festival's first six years.
Patrick MacDonald: 206-464-2312 or pmacdonald@seattletimes.com
Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
Björk and Radiohead, with lead singer
Thom Yorke, are among the performers in
"Coachella," a music documentary about
the annual summertime rock festival.
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke.
Movie review 
Showtimes and trailer
"Coachella," a documentary
with the Flaming Lips, Red Hot
Chili Peppers, the Pixies,
Morrissey, Radiohead, the White
Stripes and other musical acts.
Directed by Drew Thomas. 115
minutes. Rated R for language.
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