Product Details

• Actors: Various Artists
• Directors: All Tomorrow's People and Jonathan Caouette
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warp Records
• DVD Release Date: November 24, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002QXIMSQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,013 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "All Tomorrow's Parties" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Have you ever wondered what summer camp with Nick Cave, Daniel Johnston, and Iggy Pop would feel like? This stunning documentary should give you some idea, conjuring a glorious kaleidoscope of the bonfires, drunken hedonism, make out sessions, and music, music, music found at an All Tomorrow's Parties event.

Made from Super8, camcorder and mobile phone footage contributed by
filmmakers, fans and musicians over the festival¹s recent history, with key
contributions from co-director Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation) and
cinematographer Vincent Moon (The Take Away Shows, Arcade Fire's Miroir
Noir), it captures the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.


A truly immersive experience, All Tomorrow's Parties runs the gamut from
raucous energy to magisterial grace.



Featuring:
Belle And Sebastian / Grizzly Bear / Sonic Youth / Battles / Portishead /
Daniel Johnston / Grinderman / Lightning Bolt / David Cross / Animal
Collective / The Boredoms / Les Savy Fav / Mogwai / Octopus Project / Slint
/ The Dirty Three / the Yeah Yeah Yeahs / the Gossip / GZA / Roscoe Mitchell/ Seasick Steve / Iggy and the Stooges / A Hawk and a Hacksaw / Fuck Buttons/ Micah P Hinson / Two Gallants / Mars Volta / Akron/Family / Jah Shaka /Saul Williams / Shellac / Patti Smith / John Cooper Clark


EXTRAS


- full length performance cuts

- commentary from ATP promoters Barry Hogan and Deborah Kee Higgins

- 40 page full colour booklet, including 10 years of ATP artwork and
programme introductions

- this DVD is also a key that can be used to unlock exclusive bonus content
online, including Vincent Moon's footage from ATP New York, interviews, more
full length performances and lots more

83 mins + 55 bonus footage / colour / English / NTSC Region 1

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun festival doc that could've been more complete, November 29, 2010

By 

noizyme (Escondido, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Tomorrow's Parties (DVD)

After watching this, I'm still confused on a lot of how these events came to be (and continue to exist). The video aspect is fine, but the experience ends up being like going to see one of your friend's friend's bands...you just want to leave at times but you can't, and your curiosity gets the best of you in the end. I won't be watching this doc over and over so I gave it one-less star than I would have if it was more informative and less about the drunk or high kids who attend the festival. I think it would be an excellent recap if instead of lumping the years together, why not release each year as its own DVD. That would provide time to look at the fans as much as the artists, and it would give time to some of the better acts that were at the festivals instead of a local trio playing outside their room. (No hate towards those bands, but there are a lot of established popular artists who never got represented by this doc at all.)

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GET THIS DVD AND TURN IT UP LOUD!, November 14, 2009

By 

David Egan (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Tomorrow's Parties (DVD)

I saw this at the Seattle International Film Festival this spring. Made largely from fan-submitted footage, the DIY nature of the festival is perfectly emulated here. There's full-up high-def, multicamera footage next to super-8 and cellphone video. The editing here makes the movie though, and it is some of the best I've ever seen. Every single minute of this movie is totally stunning. I and the other pepole lucky enough to have seen during the spring this walked out of the theatre with our heads spinning, and the glow lasted for days. GET THIS DVD AND TURN IT UP LOUD!