What a wonderful night at the screening of #REMTV at the DIrectors Guild Theater in NYC! I managed to sneak in a couple of snaps with my iPhone: there’s Bertis introducing the film, and Michael and Mike, along with director/producer Alexander Young and editor David Leopold, doing a post-screening Q&A.
This Saturday, R.E.M. BY MTV, the new documentary on the band by Alexander Young, will premiere on both VH1 and Palladia at 9pm EST. Check out a clip here.
Paste Magazine’s Michele McManmon looks at REMTV in an article posted earlier today:
(L-R) David Leopold, Editor, Alexander Young, Director and Producer and Mike MIlls last week in NYC. Another showing of the documentary takes place tomorrow night at Sunshine Cinema on Houston St, NYC.
And here is a good article on R.E.M. BY MTV in director Alexander
Alexander Young, director of R.E.M. By MTV is featured in this article in his hometown newspaper… check it out here
Check out “Losing My Religion” live from Madison, Georgia, @ MTV’s 10th Anniversary celebration with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The performance, from 1991, is included on REMTV, the 6-DVD retrospective set, due out November 24 on Rhino Records.
Having seen Big Star THIRD a few times now, I can safely say it has probably never been performed more brilliantly than Saturday night in downtown Athens. The whole night was transcendent with more than two hours of music, dozens of musicians (spanning about 5 decades of age and
Diffuser.fm has an excellent article at their site on “R.E.M. By MTV.” Read it here.
Several screenings of the new R.E.M. By MTV documentary are set for
Tuesday, November 18th @ 7:00 p.m. The Alexander Young directed documentary will show in the following cities:
ATLANTA, GA: @ the Midtown Art Cinema
BOSTON, MA: @ the Kendall Square Cinema
CHICAGO, IL: @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
LOS ANGELES, CA:
Check Out This Fascinating Article on Uberlin Written by Comparative Literature Professor Katarzyna Jerzak Published in the New Haven Review.
Watch the Video for Uberlin here.
Last night saw a special screening of R.E.M. By MTV in New York City with many friends and colleagues from across the years all enjoying this tremendous documentary, which chronicles the band’s thirty years of activity on the various MTV and associated networks all over the world . . .
Check out the band performing “Daysleeper” from the 1998 MTV EMA.
This track is one of many featured on the ââ¬ËREMTV’ box set, with over 14 hours of footage on 6 DVDs including the new feature-length documentary ââ¬ËR.E.M. On MTV’ plus live performances from around the world! It’s
The War Child Benefit Auction features custom designed Carparelli guitars from Iggy Pop, Michael Stipe, Gus Van Sant, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Dave Stewart, Shepard Fairey, Matthew Bellamy, Robby Krieger, Pearl Thompson, AIKO, Sterling Ruby, Slater Bradley, Zevs, Ginger Gilmour, Michael Adamson and Steve McNiven.
The guitars, which will be auctioned at
By popular demand (two quick sellouts), a third screening of R.E.M. BY MTV has been added at 3:30 p.m. on November 23 at Cine in downtown Athens.
All proceeds from the pre-release viewing party will benefit Community Connection of Northeast Georgia and Family Connection-Communities In Schools of Athens.
There will
Mike is in Athens this weekend for the Big Star Third show on November 8th. He recently spoke with Flagpole about a number of topics including Big Star, Baseball, and the music business. Check it out here.