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Directed by Brendan Toller Edited by Brendan Toller Director Brendan Toller Initial DVD release 31 July 2010 (USA) | 6.7/10 IMDb Cinematography Brendan Toller Country United States Screenplay Brendan Toller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Distributed by Music Video Distributors Release date March 3, 2008 (2008-03-03) Producers Brendan Toller, Andrew Marino, Jeff Slocum Cast Similar American Music: Off the Record, DIY or Die: How to Survive a, The Distortion of Sound, Upside Down: The Creation, Artifact | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I Need That Record! The Death or Possible Survival of the Independent Record Store is Brendan Toller's first feature-documentary completed in 2008 and distributed by Music Video Distributors in 2010. The project began as Toller's undergraduate thesis at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
Contents
- I need that record trailer
- I need that record the last days of trash american style 1
- Interviews
- Release
- Reception
- References
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Interviews
The film features interviews with: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author Noam Chomsky, Mike Watt of the Minutemen, Lenny Kaye guitarist of the Patti Smith Group, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, guitar composer Glenn Branca, Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen, BP Helium guitarist from Of Montreal and more.
Release
I Need That Record! premiered at Hampshire College on May 3, 2008. It sold-out at the National Film Board of Canada and won the Audience Award at Melbourne International Film Festival. I Need That Record! played around the world at over 60 film festivals, centers, and events (Melbourne International Film Festival, Independent Film Festival of Boston, Raindance UK). After being released to independent record stores on Record Store Day, it was sold at bigger chains on July 27, 2010.
Reception
Jonathan Perry of the Boston Globe has described the film as "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade." Rob Young of Uncut called it a "a rounded and quietly impassioned elegy" for the communities that surrounded independent music stores. Keith Carman of Exclaim! wrote, "However, while I Need That Record is interesting and well laid out enough to be worth a viewing, it's not exactly an epiphany." Daryl Loomis of DVD Verdict described it as "overly wistful" but "definitely worth a watch".