Out Friday (27th) by the look of it but I can’t find where it will be available to buy to download or stream in the UK? I’m sure it will appear in several dubious places pretty quickly but I really don’t want to do it that way.
Anyone one better informed than me?
I fear we must not get our hopes up. I was hoping for a section on the Flo and Eddie phase longer than “The Sorrow and the Pity”, but it is not to be: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/frank-zappa-documentary-things-we-learned-1093813/
I was hoping for no Flo and Eddie whatsoever…
It’s only available in the USA so far. It’s fcuking me right off that the people doing the promotion in the USA keep saying “available everywhere” from the 27th.
It seems the non US fans / backers will only get to see it once Alex Winter has found a distributor for the UK / Europe / anywhere that isn’t the US. I reckon there be copies on Pirate Bay long before I get my backers download.
I don’t understand why, if it’s going to be available to buy on iTunes in the US on Friday it can’t be in the UK store as well?
Well, it might be worth looking on Friday just in case. It looks like it will be on Amazon Prime, You Tube and a bunch of other platforms as a pay to view, but I’m assuming it will be US only. I think the US distributor that has picked up the rights there has placed the film on these platforms.
The Kickstarter channel says non US releases are still to be scheduled. I’ve seen details of a screening taking place in the Netherlands on Friday and talk of a distributor called Great Point Media getting involved but nothing more.
I don’t really get how allowing the people who funded via Kickstarter see the film diminishes the sales potential. Like we’re going to pay to see it on iTunes too?
If you can’t wait for a UK release, turns out it’s quite easy to see it – NOT.
I managed to rent the film via iTunes following a circuitous route of purchasing a US iTunes voucher, logging in to a US Apple ID (that I set up a couple of years ago for something else but which is not an easy step in itself), redeeming the voucher (needed a VPN to allow that) and then renting the film. Turns out once you’ve bought it Apple don’t care where you are geographically as long as you log in with the right Apple ID.
Sad as I am, in the end it became more about being able to do it than about actually seeing the film so it better be worth it.
I have it, and the soundtrack album.
Good review over on Mojo’s site…
https://andnowitsallthis.blogspot.com/
I stopped reading this because I fear spoilers.
I have the film but I haven’t watched it yet. I’ll read this… afterwards.
I’ve watched it. It now has the “Fookin boss” MTM otter* of approval.
(*couldn’t find a seal)
It’s on general release here in Australia from Feb 18. Saw a preview last week – it’s brilliant
And I’m doing an interview with Ahmet next week for my radio shoe
And I have the movie via nefarious means…
Opens at cinemas in Oz on 18 Feb just after the most recent lockdown ,hopefully, concludes in Victoria.
Short run and in very small cinemas so if you are thinking of going, don’t dilly dally.
@Mousey -any idea when you will be playing theinterview so I can diarise a reminder?
The film’s just been launched on http://www.altitude.film in the UK and Ireland
Just over 2 weeks ago I received an email, telling me that finally, I would get the download copy I’d signed up for, years back. I’d had a hooky copy since before Xmas, but decided I’d wait until this was available as it woud have extra footage etc.
To get my $35 worth, I was instructed to open a Vimeo account, and then redeem the code I’d been sent, and I could fill my boots. Except – I could only view the fcuking film whilst online, inside the Vimeo app. Still I thought, I’ll just download it and then watch on my main TV. Except – I can’t because although I pledged my money in return for a download, what I’ve got instead is the right to stream a copy. For around double the price of what a regular stream would cost me.
Naturally, a great many backers have been over to the Kickstarter site pointing out this wasn’t the deal. A stream isn’t a download. The response from Alex Winter – “Sorry to hear you’re not happy with your digital copy of “Zappa”! For security reasons we couldn’t leave the movie and its extras vulnerable to non-Backers. Using Vimeo means your copy of “Zappa” is in an archive accessible only with your login. However, we also made sure the digital copy is downloadable on the Vimeo app for offline viewing. In addition, you can watch “Zappa” through a browser, TV app, mirror or cast to a TV.”
Well Alex, my streaming link doesn’t work off line, and I guess it’s just tough tit that I don’t have the means (and even less inclination) to cast it or mirror it. Given I was expecting a download, I didn’t see that I would need to. Support for the downloads closes in 11 days.
There’s an obvious irony in Winter’s position given his TED talks on the Dark Web (back then he wouldn’t use Vimeo to host his work and said as much), his defence of the Silk Road website. His documentry “Downloaded” tells the story of how Napster “democratised” music, but when challenged about how his Kickstarers backers ended up last in line behind cinemas and streaming platforms, he gave it the jazz hands and said “I’m just a film maker”.
I found a Chrome app that allowed me to take my Vimeo stream and democratise it onto my hard drive. I still haven’t watched the film. I will at some point, when I’ve stopped pouting. I know others here backed the film, maybe they see it all differently.
Don’t stop pouting, the camera loves you.
PS. Kickstarers – I saw them at the Phoenix festival in 1998.
You always know just what to say to turn that pout inside out.