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.