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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
U2 and Pearl Jam documentaries to be shown at Toronto film fest
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 July 2011
A film following U2’s career from the release of 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’ to the present day will open this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Beginning on 8 Sep, this will be the first time in the festival’s 36 year history that it has been opened by a documentary.
Entitled ‘From The Sky Down’, the film was directed by Davis Guggenheim, best known for his Oscar-winning work ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, who told reporters: “In the terrain of rock bands – implosion or explosion is seemingly inevitable. U2 has defied the gravitational pull towards destruction, this band has endured and thrived. The movie ‘From The Sky Down’ asks the question why”.
Why, indeed. The festival will also feature a documentary about Pearl Jam’s 20 year career. Entitled ‘PJ20’, it was directed by former Rolling Stone editor Cameron Crowe. After its premiere at the film fest on 10 Sep, the movie will be rolled out across the US and then aired on PBS as part of the station’s ‘American Masters’ series on 21 Oct.
The trailer for that film features part of a tad awkward interview between PJ frontman Eddie Vedder and cult director David Lynch, and an appearance from Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, and you can check it out here:
Pearl Jam Twenty from Pearl Jam on Vimeo.
