new movie about black metal: "Until The Light Takes Us"
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[Apr 24,2009 1:33am - bradmann ""]
harmony korine is in this for some reason
http://www.blackmetalmovie.com/
[Apr 24,2009 7:33am - MikeOv... ""]
I've been waiting to see this for awhile. I'm sure the Vikernes interview will be quite interesting.
[Apr 24,2009 9:13am - thuringwethil ""]
awesome!
[Apr 24,2009 9:27am - Conservationist ""]
No one likes black metal. It's anti-liberal, and not as simple as "MOAR TITS OR GTFO."
[Apr 24,2009 10:25am - dreadkill ""]
harmony korine is a black metal fan. there's all kinds of black metal in gummo.
[Apr 24,2009 10:34am - goatcatalyst ""]
Movies about lusty nubile nuns in bewitched convents > movies about black metal.
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[Apr 24,2009 10:39am - Yeti ""]
hahaha i go to Ralphs to see Ipsissiumus play and i end up with Ryan stoned out of my gourd watching Alucarda in fast forward in the front seat of a car. interesting night.
[Apr 24,2009 10:54am - goatcatalyst ""]
Hehe. Werewolf mode.
[Apr 24,2009 3:10pm - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
dreadkill said:harmony korine is a black metal fan. there's all kinds of black metal in gummo.
And he put on a gallery of black metal portraits a few years back
[Apr 24,2009 3:27pm - MikeofdecrepitudE ""]
The soundtrack to Gummo is better than the film. Fuckin' Mystifier and Absu!
[Apr 24,2009 3:30pm - Yeti ""]
hmm....this seems like it might not suck.
[Apr 24,2009 3:35pm - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
MikeofdecrepitudE said:The soundtrack to Gummo is better than the film. Fuckin' Mystifier and Absu!
The only decent part of the entire movie was Gonz wrestling a chair.
[Apr 24,2009 3:52pm - dreadkill ""]
the chair wrestling scene is my favorite part.especially the guy who looks like ted dibiase. fuckin hilarious.
[Apr 27,2009 1:58am - bradmann ""]
BobNOMAAMRooney said:
dreadkill said:harmony korine is a black metal fan. there's all kinds of black metal in gummo.
And he put on a gallery of black metal portraits a few years back
i don't think either of these things classifies him as a reliable source of information on the subject...growing up listening to Burzum in your Xenia, Ohio bedroom means nothing
[Apr 27,2009 8:29am - Conservationist ""]
I think they're celebrating him for promoting metal with "Gummo."
Academia is numb on black and death metal because they're not thoroughly liberalized genres. Then again, they even fail it on crustcore. Where to find experts?
I mean, other than Hessians.
[Apr 27,2009 10:51am - xmikex ""]
Conservationist said:"MOAR TITS OR GTFO."
Now you're speaking my language.
[Jun 29,2009 12:37pm - deathchick ""]
Special screening at the Brattle theater in Cambridge August 1st, 7:30.
[Jun 29,2009 12:51pm - bradmann ""]
nice! thanks for the update mal
[Jun 29,2009 10:42pm - Burnsy ""]
Also screening on July 11 at 6:30 at as220.
[Aug 11,2009 1:37pm - Conservationist ""]
Interesting review:
Something draws all of us to metal, and no one has asked yet what it is -- until now. Two brave indie filmmakers set out to learn about the phenomenon of Norwegian black metal from the early 1990s, and explain to us why it happened. In doing so, they hope to show us our world in a new light: how modernity has made culture, history and even truth dubious and lost in a flow in chaotic information.
"Until the Light Takes Us" review
About time someone put metal on the big screen and tried to explain it.
[Aug 11,2009 5:49pm - arktouros ""]
Cool, now I actually want to see it.
[Dec 2,2009 7:21pm - Conservationist ""]
Update:
More big news. It's getting crazy here. (This is all for the US/Canada, but we are working on several things on other continents, and will announce separately once finalized. As always: do not reply to this message, we won't get it. You CAN reach us with a NEW email sent to untilfilm@gmail.com.)
The film opens this Friday Dec 4th in NY, Providence and Grand Rapids and continues in Detroit. We're very excited. Check theaters for showtimes. Directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell will be present for Q & As at Cinema Village in NY at the opening weekend, Friday/Saturday evening screenings. www.cinemavillage.com
* Tones of Death is throwing a Premier Party on Dec 3rd at Fontanas in NY's Lower East Side.
8 PM – Until the Light Takes Us NYC launch party upstairs
9 PM – Sea of Bones (replacing Goes Cube) - 10 PM – Liturgy - 11 PM – Cable
FREE, 21+...The show is FREE with free beer/beer specials.
20% of poster sales from the show will go to Waggytail Rescue, a NYC
nonprofit dog rescue http://www.waggytailrescue.com
New York:
Bring your ticket stub to Forbidden Planet 840 Broadway between Dec. 4th and Dec. 10th to receive 15% off art books and graphic novels! No other discounts apply, ticket stub must be presented at point of sale to be valid. You can also visit them online at www.fpnyc.com
Providence:
Check out the amazing selection of metal and other music at Armageddon Record Shop at 436 Broadway. You can also order online at www.armageddonshop.com - these guys are helping to get the word out on the film - huge thanks to them.
Michigan:
Vertigo Music- Vertigo music in Grand Rapids, MI, would like to offer $1.00 off any CD in store with a ticket stub from the film. You can also visit them online at www.vertigomusiconline.com.
Green Brain Comics is offering 25% off the cover price of any one graphic novel in stock with ticket stub from the film. You can find Green Brain Comics at http://www.greenbrain.biz/ and their address is - 13210 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn.
Our friends at Record Time in Roseville, MI would like to offer 20% off any one item in stock with a ticket stub from the film! You can also visit Record Time online at http://recordtime.com
Thank you to our wonderful friends at Forbidden Planet, Vertigo Music, Armageddon Record Shop, Green Brain Comics and Record Time. Way cool. I hope you all will take advantage of this and continue to support independent artists and shops.
*LA run begins Dec 11 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5. Directors will be there for evening Q & A on Dec 11 and 12.
*We're having a special LA opening party and everyone's invited.
Thursday, December 10th, from 6pm-8pm
Vacation Vinyl - 4679 Hollywood Blvd
We'll be in store to talk about the film, sign posters, and celebrate the LA opening. Live DJ, no cover, free drinks - so come down and say hi!
For more info check out www.vacationvinyl.com. Thanks to Pete at Vacation Vinyl and Luis at Tones of Death/Red Distribution for setting this up!
LA facebook group is here, please join and invite your friends:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=175110541066&ref=nf
* Invisible Man limited edition run of shirts to support the film. All ordering info is through their website: http://shop.commissarystores.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=IM16
* Posters are available here: www.blackmetalmovie.com
* Confirmed cities are below, with many more being added very soon. If your city isn't yet listed, please consider calling your local indie theaters and asking if the film is coming there and very very nicely letting them know that there is a community of people who hope it comes - it really does help, as long as it's very polite and concise. People have been doing this - and it IS working! Canada - ditto. ALSO! People have started making Facebook group pages to bring the film to their city. Here are some pages that people have made, feel free to make your own, just invite all your friends and send me the link! You can also do it on myspace. Here are sample pages, if you're in these towns please join, if you're not, feel free to start your own:
Detroit/Grand Rapids: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=169254968841&ref=ts
Detroit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Li...akes-Us-Detroit/170554787443?ref=ts
Grand Rapids: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Li...pids-MI-Chapter/158765569817?ref=ts
Massachusetts: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Li...search&sid=1260305673.1324498103..1
Seattle: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-the-Li...Seattle-chapter/185881722602?ref=nf
Orlando: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=156956003589&ref=ts
Milwaukee: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000511545287&ref=ts
Milwaukee Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/untilthelightmilwaukee
Toronto: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=352374445155
SF Bay Area: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=208700001423
Los Angeles: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=175110541066
NYC: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNTIL-THE-LIGHT-TAKES-US/150246122114?ref=ts
STREET TEAM: Join us! We need you help! Please send a NEW EMAIL to untilfilm@gmail.com with your city in the subject line. Thank you very much! Please DO NOT reply to this email.
Distribution efforts continue throughout the world and there is much progress. Stay tuned!
US THEATRICAL: Confirmed Cities (NEW!)
New York, NY - starts Dec 4th @ Cinema Village on 12th St.
Austin, TX - starts Nov 20 @ Alamo Ritz, downtown
New Orleans, LA starts Nov 24 @ Zeitgeist
Detroit, MI starts Nov 27 @ Burton Theater
Grand Rapids, MI starts Dec 4 @ Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA)
Providence, RI starts Dec 4 @ Cable Car Cinema
Los Angeles, CA starts Dec 11 @ Laemmle Sunset 5
Houston, TX starts Dec 10 @ Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks
CHICAGO! starts Jan 8 @ the Gene Siskel Film Center
SEATTLE! starts Jan 15th @ Grand Illusion Cinema
MILWAUKEE! starts Jan 22 @ Times Cinema
Denver, CO starts 1/29 @ Starz Theater
Canadian Premiere: Jan 15th, the film will be projected onto a giant ICE SCREEN in Winnipeg. More details TBA. AND more cities nearly finalized.
This list of cities will grow in the coming days and weeks. Many of you are part of the reason why. Our eternal thanks and appreciation. As always, please come out opening weekend whenever possible.
DVD: We are working on it, no release date yet.
Thank you,
Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites
www.blackmetalmovie.com
mailing list: untilfilm@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20217005803
http://www.myspace.com/blackmetalmovie
http://twitter.com/blackmetalmovie
Winner of the Golden Athena in the Music and Film Selection, the top documentary award, at the Athens International Film Festival, Sept. 2009 in Athens, Greece.
[Dec 2,2009 7:25pm - swamplorddvm ""]
goatcatalyst said:Movies about lusty nubile nuns in bewitched convents > movies about black metal.
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This movie was pretty damn cool.
[Dec 2,2009 8:16pm - theif ""]
Can I download this movie anywhere yet? I dont want to go sit with butpirates in dimmu borgir shirts to watch this.
[Jun 9,2010 4:34pm - Conservationist ""]
You can now get the film on DVD:
http://www.factorytwentyfive.com/until-the-light-takes-us/
You can also get it through Netflix:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Until_the_Light_Takes_Us/70128352
Artists:
In order of appearance:
Mum - Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records
Darkthrone - Kaatharian Life Code
Ulver - Not Saved
Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
Mayhem - Chainsaw Gutsfock
Burzum - War
Gorgoroth - Destroyer Or About How to Philosophize With the Hammer
Mayhem - The Freezing Moon
Burzum - Rundgang um die Transzendentale Saule der Singularitet
Ulver - Eittlane
Mayhem - Pure Focking Armageddon
Darkthrone - Quintessence
Darkthrone - In the Shadow of the Horns
Ulver - Farger
Thorns - Home
Boards of Canada - Gyroscope
Burzum - Han Som Resite
Boards of Canada - You Could Feel the Sky
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Black Dice - Motorcycle
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Burzum - Die Liebe Nerpus'
Thorns - Stellar Master Elite
Sun O))) - Sin Nanna
Burzum - Gebrechlichkeit II
During Credits:
Mum - Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records
Enslaved - Entrance-Escape
-What Fenriz plays on vinyl at his place is Mayhem - Chainsaw *beep*
-What is playing in the background while Fenriz talks about recording riffs and the cassette player is King Crimson - Epitaph then on later scenes, the song Moonchild.
-While Korine dances, Bethlehem - Die Anarchische Befreiung Der Augenzeugenreligion plays in the background.
[Jun 9,2010 5:08pm - arilliusbm ""]
Still have yet to see this.
[Jun 9,2010 5:57pm - Pires ""]
Conservationist said:
You can also get it through Netflix:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Until_the_Light_Takes_Us/70128352
Format:
DVD availability date unknown
[Jun 9,2010 7:19pm - Conservationist ""]
Download only for now
[Jun 27,2010 8:05pm - TheBenFo ""]
Where's the power metal documentary's.
Until the Pegasus Takes Us.
[Jun 28,2010 8:18pm - Loose Sinks Shit Lips ""]
Grindcore:
Until the Purulence Takes Us
[Jun 28,2010 10:35pm - AndrewBastard ""]
hip hop: until AIDS takes us...
[Jun 28,2010 11:50pm - bobnomaamrooney ""]
Courtesy of my buddy who lives in Glasgow:
the directors were at the screening i went to, and they were banging on about "recontextualizing" black metal and the imagery and basically sounding like a bunch of overgrown grad students with aspirations of one day being undergrads. some scottish guy screamed "THAES NOH WHAE BLACK MEH-AL IS ABOUH" at them really loudly and it was beautiful
[Jun 29,2010 1:16am - Loose Sinks Shit Lips ""]
Emo:
Until The Pain Takes Us
[Jun 29,2010 2:01am - goatcatalyst ""]
bobnomaamrooney said:Courtesy of my buddy who lives in Glasgow:
the directors were at the screening i went to, and they were banging on about "recontextualizing" black metal and the imagery and basically sounding like a bunch of overgrown grad students with aspirations of one day being undergrads. some scottish guy screamed "THAES NOH WHAE BLACK MEH-AL IS ABOUH" at them really loudly and it was beautiful
Ahahahaha. That's rich. Those poncey hairdressers aren't worthy of hanging out with Fenriz!
[Jun 29,2010 4:13am - Samantha ""]
Pires said:
Conservationist said:
You can also get it through Netflix:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Until_the_Light_Takes_Us/70128352
Format:
DVD availability date unknown
Or if you're a broke loser like me, you can watch it for free here: http://www.now-movies.com/movies/Until_the_Light_Takes_Us.html
[Oct 21,2010 8:24am - Yeti ""]
Yeti said:hmm....this seems like it might not suck.
now that i've seen it i don't think it completely sucked, but it wasn't very good. way too incoherent, way too much time spent on pretentious douchebags who have nothing to do with the history. like Harmony Korine. what the fuck does he have to do with anything? that artist Bjarne Melgaard was lame too, his art sucks. overall this was meh, the highlight was when Frost started going nuts at the art show. also the best interview wasn't even in the film, the one with Ivar Bjornson.
[Oct 21,2010 9:09am - Harmony Korine ""]
retext
[Oct 21,2010 5:57pm - frankofhell ""]
Yeti said:
Yeti said:hmm....this seems like it might not suck.
now that i've seen it i don't think it completely sucked, but it wasn't very good. way too incoherent, way too much time spent on pretentious douchebags who have nothing to do with the history. like Harmony Korine. what the fuck does he have to do with anything? that artist Bjarne Melgaard was lame too, his art sucks. overall this was meh, the highlight was when Frost started going nuts at the art show. also the best interview wasn't even in the film, the one with Ivar Bjornson.
Where is this Ivar interview? I agree completely with the gay Korine shit, him dancing around like a fag and that homo artist who if you delve into most of his art you notice he is obsessed with tieing homosexuality into everything.
[Oct 21,2010 6:27pm - quarantined ""]
got this in my Netflix queue...now if only I could remember to return the movie I have
[Oct 22,2010 7:23am - Yeti ""]
frankofhell said:
Yeti said:
Yeti said:hmm....this seems like it might not suck.
now that i've seen it i don't think it completely sucked, but it wasn't very good. way too incoherent, way too much time spent on pretentious douchebags who have nothing to do with the history. like Harmony Korine. what the fuck does he have to do with anything? that artist Bjarne Melgaard was lame too, his art sucks. overall this was meh, the highlight was when Frost started going nuts at the art show. also the best interview wasn't even in the film, the one with Ivar Bjornson.
Where is this Ivar interview? I agree completely with the gay Korine shit, him dancing around like a fag and that homo artist who if you delve into most of his art you notice he is obsessed with tieing homosexuality into everything.
the DVD has a second disc of all of the cut interviews. full ones with Garm, Ivar Bjornson and Dirge Rep, Abbath and Demonaz, Varg, Fenriz, Frost, and a few others. it also has one of the gayest things i have ever seen, a section called "Black Metal University" with Fenriz. it's a 45 minute interview where he explains how to be or do black metal properly. i made it about 5 minutes in and wanted to gouge my eyes out.
[Nov 18,2010 7:38am - largefreakatzero ""]
I finally watched this last night. Overall, it annoyed me. I got tired of hearing how wonderful and ingenious these guys thought they were, and how everyone else were posers, and waaaah black metal is ruined. Shut up, write some music, burn some churches, kill some fellow metal guys, or gtfo.
[Aug 7,2012 8:12am - arilliusbm ""]
Just saw this for the first time. Awful. Pitiful filmmaking, horrible interviews. No real substance other than rehashing Varg's story and following Fagriz around.
[Aug 7,2012 8:25am - Yeti ""]
i stand by my previous judgment. it isn't awful, but it isn't spectacular either. i just watched it again the other day, i get the biggest kick out of Varg lying. he lies so blatantly that you can tell even he believes it. plus the part where he says "they found Dead dead in the bed" makes me laugh.
[Aug 7,2012 9:38am - arktouros ""]
the best part about it is playtime with fenriz. i thought it was a well-put together film that ultimately parodies itself. some good interviews and footage mixed with a lot of blackmetal self-service.
[Aug 7,2012 9:39am - arktouros ""]
i haven't seen the cut interviews but would love to see the garm and ivar interviews. and frost is a giant tool.
[Aug 7,2012 10:12am - KEVORD ""]
Sad Fenriz walking through the black metal photo display interplayed with faggot Frost is that entire movie. I love that part. Everything else was blah.
[Aug 7,2012 10:14am - arilliusbm ""]
I LOLd at Fenriz's apartment.
[Aug 7,2012 10:19am - arilliusbm ""]
Also, does OP Paul intentionally try to look like Fenriz or is that a coincidence?
[Aug 7,2012 10:25am - Burnsy ""]
I saw it at some small theater in providence. There were people there who clearly got some assignment at school and had to write a faggy paper about it. There were cackles and pfffffts when that a capella ulver song played. IMMATURE. Movie was lame on the whole. A couple cool parts but it was an old news story that everyone already knew.
[Aug 7,2012 10:31am - goatcatalyst ""]
Yeti said:hahaha i go to Ralphs to see Ipsissiumus play and i end up with Ryan stoned out of my gourd watching Alucarda in fast forward in the front seat of a car. interesting night.
Best post in this shit thread