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Summary: Get It NOW
Review: If you are even reading this these reviews......Then Buy it!!! You will not be sorry
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Summary: Fugazify your life
Review: If you are reading this review then i can assume a couple things. 1. you know who fugazi is, 2. you know what DIY/indy means. If you are as big a fugazi fan as i am, then this is a must have. awesome footage spanning their 1st 10 years. intense performances and interviews with the band and a bunch of fans.now going back to those assumptions i made. if you know what DYI is and you like Fugazi, then please dont order the DVD here. I am only posting this review to show my love for fugazi and their music... go to the Dischord website and order through them. Keep indie sacred.
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Summary: Nice film, a few minor critiques
Review: It's cool to see all of the old footage. Cohen did a great job on this film. Many of the bits filmed between playing or recording are kind of funny but still irrelevant. The movie as a whole does seem to conform to the self-indulgent band-documentary format that has quickly become stale as of late. I would have preferred more formal interview over the inside joke parts, but overall lots of content, fun to watch, great film, amazing band.
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Summary: ....This is an instrument....
Review: Its like hearing Fugazi for the first time again. This film just reinforces everything good about playing music, about giving a sh*t, about wanting to move people and to be moved by music. What a beacon, a reminder...
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Summary: Just watched it last night!
Review: Moving and inspiring, in everything from the film style to the music to the attitudes of the band. My personal favorites: Guy describing Ian's guitar doubling when they're recording Red Medicine, the 8th grade girl interviewing Guy and Ian (with mastery and poise), and any of the crowd confrontation scenes between Ian and out-of-hand crowdmembers (especially, "...ice-cream eating motherfu**er, that's what you are..."). Makes you wish everybody would be like these guys. In a non-cloning sense, of course.
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Summary: Breathtaking...
Review: Ok, "Slo Crostic" [opening song] and "Shut the Door" [Live] key off this video and leave my eyes watering and my ears wanting more. Guy's dancing is exactly what dancing should be, pure, free, unrestricted movement, escaping from the body. I love this video, but it's got one draw back...only complaint i have is there are boring parts that cut into the great live scene. SEE THIS FILM.
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Summary: Breathtaking...
Review: Ok, "Slo Crostic" [opening song] and "Shut the Door" [Live] key off this video and leave my eyes watering and my ears wanting more. Guy's dancing is exactly what dancing should be, pure, free, unrestricted movement, escaping from the body. I love this video, but it's got one draw back...only complaint i have is there are boring parts that cut into the great live scene. SEE THIS FILM.
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Summary: For best results, view repeatedly
Review: On first viewing I was torn between fascination and frustration with this video. Horrendous editing of excellent songs (e.g. cutting the last 20 seconds off "great cop" and giving us only the first and last notes of "smallpox")seemed designed to disappoint their fans, and mar what is otherwise an entertaining and thoughtful look at what is probably the most interesting American rock band. But as is typical of Fugazi recordings, a second viewing expanded my original perceptions and I thought maybe the director was right to cut the hits and focus on the instrumentals. The third time through I realized this video is priceless. Although I still want the last 20 of great cop.
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Summary: A self-determined device
Review: Since biographical documentaries tend to concentrate on event depiction along a chronological time-line it is hard to categorize this as such... which is perfectly suited to the subject since Fugazi has been just that [hard to categorize] from the moment they formed. For the last 12 years Fugazi has set the standard for what it means to be a self-determined body, existing completely and independently from the music industry. The fact that their music is utterly moving has not hurt them one bit either. Cohen's camera does not try to PORTRAY the band in any particular way. Had that been his approach, this project would have failed. Cohen does not attempt to tell us the story ABOUT the subject. His camera simply LISTENS TO the subject. The fact that he has a wonderful eye for placement and propriety doesn't harm him in the slightest. His assembly of image is not unlike Fugazi's approach to sound. Both are very authoritative with tension, space and overall dynamic... the composition can be loose because the composer can be counted on to make good on his obligations to the others involved... each segment is the model of its' type. Cohen achieved what not many people would have been able to do: represent Fugazi in a manner that complimented the band's philosophy, principles and personality. The beauty of this project is that the filmaker, in rendering a subject that has answered his questions in anthems, produces a psalm of his own.
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Summary: Excellent, Inspiring and honest.
Review: The first music video, that really is a 'music video', Jem Cohen's filming, and Fugazi music go well together. After watching the film, I felt I understood better what the band is, which is pretty simple, they're just a band doing their thing. Many press releases' make out that there something else, but there only band.
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