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Director
  
Gorman Bechard

Screenplay
  
Gorman Bechard

Country
  
US

7.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary, Music

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
2011

Writer
  
Gorman Bechard, Hansi Oppenheimer (based on an original idea by)

Producers
  
Gorman Bechard, Jan Radder, Hansi Oppenheimer

Cast
  
Robert Voedisch
(Himself),
Tommy Ramone
(Himself),
Tom Arnold
(Himself),
Dave Foley
(Himself),
Grant Hart
(Himself),
Terry Katzman
(Himself)

Similar movies
  
Related Gorman Bechard movies

Tagline
  
The potentially true story of the last best band.

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Color Me Obsessed, which made its film festival debut in April, 2011, is a rockumentary by Gorman Bechard about the legendary American alternative rock band The Replacements.

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Plot

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Eschewing the traditional rockumentary methods of archival performance and interviews, director Gorman Bechard instead relies on fans to tell the story of The Replacements. Some of these fans are more well known than others, as members of Hüsker Dü, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Hold Steady, The Decemberists, The Gaslight Anthem, Babes in Toyland, and many other famous musicians retrace the band's story from their humble beginnings in Minneapolis to their legendary onstage breakup on July 4, 1991. The heart of the story, though, comes from "ordinary" fans. Some saw the band hundreds of times during their tenure; others only saw a show or two. Bechard not only covers the highs of their early shows and recordings, he also honestly discusses the controversial firing of guitarist Bob Stinson and the gradual softening of their sound. According to The Village Voice it's the "rock version of Rashomon (film)." While David Browne in Rolling Stone called it one of "the seven best new music documentaries of the year."

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The film is being distributed by MVD Entertainment, and was released on DVD in November 2012. It is also available on iTunes, Hulu, and Video-on-Demand.

Release

Film screenings included the following:

  • Tampa, Florida - Gasparilla International Film Festival, March 26, 2011
  • Madison, Wisconsin - Wisconsin Film Festival, March 5, 2011
  • Chicago, Illinois - CIMMfest 2011, April 15, 2011
  • Boston, Massachusetts - Independent Film Festival Boston, April 28, 2011
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota - Sound Unseen Festival, May 4 & 5, 2011
  • Duluth, Minnesota - Sound Unseen International Duluth Film & Music Festival, June 11, 2011
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada - NXNE Festival and Conference, June 17
  • Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Sled Island Music and Arts Festival, June 21, 2011
  • San Francisco, California - Frozen Film Festival, July 9, 2011
  • Boulder, Colorado - DocuWest, September 2011
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Philly Film & Music Festival, September 24, 2011
  • Bay City, Michigan - Hell's Half Mile, September 30, 2011
  • Seattle, Washington - Northwest Film Festival, October 21, 22, and 23, 2011
  • Los Angeles, California - Downtown Independent, November 3 and 4, 2011
  • New Orleans, Louisiana - Zeitgeist Cinema, January 20 and 21, 2012
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico - Guild Cinema, January 26 through February 1, 2012
  • Washington, DC - Black Cat Bar, March 9, 2012
  • Melbourne, Australia - Gerschwin Room, March 29, 2012
  • Stockholm, Sweden - Bio Rio, April 12, 201
  • Atlanta, Georgia - The Earl Bar, April 12, 2012
  • Providence, Rhode Island - Cable Car Cinema, April 21, 2012
  • Austin, Texas - Alamo Drafthouse, April 30, 2012
  • Columbus, Ohio - Reelin' & Rockin' at Gateway Film Center, October 17, 2012
  • Cleveland, Ohio - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, December 12, 2012

    • Critical reception

  • Rolling Stone named it "one of the 7 best documentaries of the year".
  • Pop Matters named it "one of the Top 5 most anticipated music documentaries".
  • Chart Attack rated it 4.5 out of 5 stars, describing it as a "love letter to music
  • Vinyl Me, Please wrote: "It’s pretty damn ballsy to make a documentary about a band and not include any interviews with or footage of that band, but somehow it’s a perfect fit for Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements. How do you cover a band that never took the easy way out of anything? Well, you tie one hand behind your own back as a filmmaker and see what happens, I guess. In this case, the constraint (a means of saving money, maybe?) results in a uniquely affecting film that has to be seen to be believed, and you should definitely check it out."
  • Filmmaker (magazine) wrote: "Gorman Bechard’s Color Me Obsessed is the rare music documentary that lavishes admiration not only onto its subject, rowdy Minneapolis cult rock band The Replacements, but on the band’s fans as well."
  • PopDose said: "It seemed like an impossible task: Can you tell the story of a band without interviewing any of its members or using any of its music? If you’re Gorman Bechard, the writer/director/producer of Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements, the answer is a resounding yes."

    • References

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