By Zachary Swickey
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has been busy in the studio working on his group’s latest album – with Outkast’s Big Boi producing some tracks – but the enigmatic singer has just tacked another project on to his to-do list: scoring a film.
Brock has signed on to provide the audio accompaniment to a western comedy film (don’t see those very often) called Queens of Country. The movie is to be directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke – the same fellas who brought us Blood Into Wine, a wine documentary starring Tool’s Maynard James Keenan. Rather appropriate since the singer is set to appear in the film as the antagonist – a bigger role than the cameos he’s used to.
Meanwhile, the lead actors are Ron Livingston, Sex and the City’s Jack Berger and star of the cult classic Office Space, and Lizzy Caplan of my favorite canceled show,...
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has been busy in the studio working on his group’s latest album – with Outkast’s Big Boi producing some tracks – but the enigmatic singer has just tacked another project on to his to-do list: scoring a film.
Brock has signed on to provide the audio accompaniment to a western comedy film (don’t see those very often) called Queens of Country. The movie is to be directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke – the same fellas who brought us Blood Into Wine, a wine documentary starring Tool’s Maynard James Keenan. Rather appropriate since the singer is set to appear in the film as the antagonist – a bigger role than the cameos he’s used to.
Meanwhile, the lead actors are Ron Livingston, Sex and the City’s Jack Berger and star of the cult classic Office Space, and Lizzy Caplan of my favorite canceled show,...
- 6/29/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
It was a year where documentary blurred the line and smashed the U.S. government's policies on everything like a terrible toddler tempestuously trouncing a trainset. Most of these films are actually acts of fiction, and a few are Warholian examples of installation art. There were plenty of genuine marvels that didn't even make the list: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, which actually pulled off what Sofia Coppola thought she was doing in Somewhere; the madcapped mashup of Intervention and "So You Think You Can Dance" and Jerry Springer that was The Wild Wonderful Whites of West Virginia; the delighfully delusional serious mockumentary stylings of Blood Into Wine about Tool/Puscifer/A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan's quest to bottle fine wines. Not to mention smaller and important efforts like Barbershop Punk, which takes on net neutrality, or the fantastic Lemmy, which will get a release in this coming year.
- 1/3/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Now that September is here, the summer movies are slowly starting to trickle out on DVD... starting with the ones that didn't do so well in theatres, naturally. This week we get the SNL MacGruber movie and Killers starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, and not a heck of a lot else. Festival sleeper Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg also hits stores today, along with a new Special Edition of Wall Street and Blood Into Wine, a documentary about Maynard James Keenan's journey to becoming a winemaker. If you're a fan of Norm McDonald, the gem of the week is definitely The Norm Show: The Complete Series. Also out this week on DVD and Blu-ray: new seasons of The Office, Supernatural, and Smallville. What will you be buying or renting this week? MacGruber [1] (+ Blu-ray [2]) Killers [3] (+ Blu-ray [4]) Solitary Man [5] (+ Blu-ray [6]) That Evening Sun [7] (+ Blu-ray [8]) The Exploding Girl...
- 9/7/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
"Being Michael Madsen" (2010)
Directed by Michael Mongillo
Released by Midnight Releasing
While not as distinguished or meta as "Being John Malkovich," expect this mockumentary about the "Reservoir Dogs" star to be equally surreal as Madsen recruits sister Virginia and "Kill Bill" co-stars Daryl Hannah and the late David Carradine to co-star in this film that sees him accused of murder. Rather than sit idly by, Madsen turns the table on the paparazzi photographer fueling the allegations by hiring a trio of filmmakers to follow his every move.
"Beneath Clouds" (2002)
Directed by Ivan Sen
Released by Cinema Epoch
This Australian drama stars Dannielle Hall and the late Damian Pitt as Lena and Vaughn, a pair of strangers thrown together by circumstance to travel across the country to Sydney where Lena hopes to learn more about her long-absent father and Vaughn hope to leave behind his criminal past and see his ailing mother.
Directed by Michael Mongillo
Released by Midnight Releasing
While not as distinguished or meta as "Being John Malkovich," expect this mockumentary about the "Reservoir Dogs" star to be equally surreal as Madsen recruits sister Virginia and "Kill Bill" co-stars Daryl Hannah and the late David Carradine to co-star in this film that sees him accused of murder. Rather than sit idly by, Madsen turns the table on the paparazzi photographer fueling the allegations by hiring a trio of filmmakers to follow his every move.
"Beneath Clouds" (2002)
Directed by Ivan Sen
Released by Cinema Epoch
This Australian drama stars Dannielle Hall and the late Damian Pitt as Lena and Vaughn, a pair of strangers thrown together by circumstance to travel across the country to Sydney where Lena hopes to learn more about her long-absent father and Vaughn hope to leave behind his criminal past and see his ailing mother.
- 9/7/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Director(s): Ryan Page & Christopher Pomerenke Writer(s): Maynard James Keenan, Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke Starring: Maynard James Keenan, Eric Glomski, Milla Jovovich, Patton Oswalt, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Tim Alexander, Bob Odenkirk Before I get started, I should probably set the record straight; I had no idea who Maynard James Keenan was prior to watching Blood Into Wine. So for the other Tool-deprived souls out there, allow me to summarize: Maynard James Keenan fronts Tool, a multi-platinum metal (a term I am using very loosely) band that formed in 1990. Tool has released four studio albums since its 1993 debut, Undertow. Keenan also fronts the supergroup A Perfect Circle (which has released three albums to date) and Puscifer (a side project, which released its first studio album in October 2007). Keenan is also a winemaker, former Army cadet, comedian (he is featured in a couple Mr. Show cameos – the...
- 2/17/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
This one's been quietly bouncing around for a while, but it's our first time covering it. I don't usually cover documentaries, but this one ... this one is special. Because if there are two things I love in the world, it's family and dogs.
Wait ... this is about neither of those things.
However, if there are two other things that I love in the world, it's rock and roll and alcohol. Blood into Wine is a glorious combination of the two, featuring one of my favorite, and one of the most enigmatic performers ever -- Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of Tool (as well as A Perfect Circle and Puscifer). Keenan, in addition to being an iconic and brilliant musical talent, is also a not-so-amateur winemaker -- in 2004, he founded Caduceus Cellars (named after the ancient symbol for commerce, and the staff of the Greek god Hermes) and Merkin Vineyard, named after ... well ... anyway.
Wait ... this is about neither of those things.
However, if there are two other things that I love in the world, it's rock and roll and alcohol. Blood into Wine is a glorious combination of the two, featuring one of my favorite, and one of the most enigmatic performers ever -- Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of Tool (as well as A Perfect Circle and Puscifer). Keenan, in addition to being an iconic and brilliant musical talent, is also a not-so-amateur winemaker -- in 2004, he founded Caduceus Cellars (named after the ancient symbol for commerce, and the staff of the Greek god Hermes) and Merkin Vineyard, named after ... well ... anyway.
- 1/26/2010
- by TK
San Fransisco music, art and film festival, Noise Pop, now in its 18th year, has announced 2010’s featured films. As you might imagine, they’re all music-themed, but the similarities end there. In fact, the films range from focusing on a nine-year-old rapper (P-Star Rising) to following Tool frontman Maynard Keenan into the world of winemaking (Blood Into Wine) to NYC’s underground music scene of the ’70s (Downtown Calling)....
- 1/26/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Maynard James Keenan has worn a lot of hats: Tool frontman, singer for A Perfect Circle, occasional sketch comedy actor. (Sometimes he doesn’t even wear a hat and opts for a Kabuki mask and a bra.) Most recently, he’s spent time as the owner and mastermind behind Stronghold Vineyards, a winery in the Arizona desert he set up a few years ago. The vineyard is the subject of a new documentary called “Blood Into Wine: The Arizona Stronghold”, whose trailer just hit the Web. The documentary features a lot of interviews and tours with Keenan and business partner Eric Glomski, where they will probably explain just how you plant grapes in the middle of a desert.
Keenan is one of rock’s most wonderful enigmas, and the juxtaposition between his health-consciousness (he also owns an organic produce market) and his musical output (the droning prog-metal of Tool, the...
Keenan is one of rock’s most wonderful enigmas, and the juxtaposition between his health-consciousness (he also owns an organic produce market) and his musical output (the droning prog-metal of Tool, the...
- 6/12/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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