Documentaries

METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER

Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
USA 2003
140 min
V'04

Early in 2001, Metallica, one of the longest-lived and most popular heavy-metal bands, went into a converted military barracks in San Francisco to begin working on a new album. The group, which had just lost its bass player, was accompanied by a therapist named Phil Towle, and also by two filmmakers, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Though the next two years were full of creative and interpersonal struggle, they yielded serendipitous results: a fierce, brooding record called «St. Anger», and a fascinating documentary. Berlinger and Sinofsky have uncovered the mysterious dynamics of Metallicas collaboration, a relationship that is, superficially, both an artistic bond and a business partnership but that is also a deep, bubbling source of identity and anxiety for each man. (A. O. Scott)

http://www.movienet.com/metallica.html
http://www.filmmonthly.com/Profiles/Articles/Metallica/Metallica.html
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/0/f71e0eab2598355388256ead0056327e?OpenDocument
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/metallica.php

Credits
  • James Hetfield
  • Kirk Hammett
  • Lars Ulrich
  • Joe Berlinger
  • Bruce Sinofsky
  • Robert Richman
  • Michael Emery
  • David Zieff
  • Kirk Hammett
  • James Hetfield
  • Metallica
  • Bob Rock
  • Lars Ulrich
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