Documentary about the career of sheffield pop group pulp, featuring footage from their last ever concert in 2012 at. This affectionate, humorous documentary is as much about the spirit of the northern english city of sheffield as it is about pulp, the legendary britpop band led by. And in them, the audience sees the empathy, leftfield humor, and social mores also coursing through the veins of pulps songs. This, however, is one of the most unique and interesting takes on the concert film. Post jobs, find pros, and collaborate commissionfree in our professional marketplace. Regardez streaming death and nightingales streamingvf. Twenty five years and 10 million album sales later, they return to. The brit pop bands story, told through live performance and staged tableaux starring regular people from the streets of sheffield. As much a testament to the band as it is to the city and inhabitants of sheffield, pulp weaves exclusive concert footage with manonthestreet interviews and dreamy staged sequences to paint a picture much larger, funnier, moving, and life affirming than any music film of recent memory. Prime members enjoy free twoday delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, tv shows, original audio series, and kindle books.
Dynamic concert footage and hilarious interviews paint a. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. In 2012, they played sheffield, their hometown, for the first time in years, and that show became the subject of the documentary pulp. Pulp a film, about life, death and supermarkets en salles en france le 1er avril 2015.
Pulp found fame on the world stage in the 1990s with anthems including common people and disco 2000. Filmmaker florian habicht captures both the triumphant homecoming show and the views of various sheffield residents in profiling a band with a deep and enduring connection to their local roots. The featurelength film snuck online monday on music site. Later, habicht reveals that hes only doing what cocker already did during the bands final concert in 2012. But thats exactly what director florian habicht does at the start of concert doc pulp. Jarvis cocker, mark webber, candida doyle, nick banks, steve mackey. Their music denigrated the people of sheffield as much as it celebrated them. Sheffields common people pay tribute to pulp in this affectionate. There have been a few documentaries on pulp made over the years that are more standard talking heads and archive footage and are worth seeking out on youtube. As much a testament to the band as it is to the city and inhabitants of sheffield, pulp weaves exclusive concert footage with manonthestreet interviews and dreamy staged sequences to paint a picture. A fine documentary about december 8th 2012 and the bands preparation to that. Supermarkets germanborn kiwi director florian habicht charts the journey of britpop band pulp to their 2012 sheffield farewell concert. Pulp a film about life, death and supermarkets 2014 bfi. Witty, warm, and unconventional, pulp makes up in overall entertainment what it lacks in depth.
Nov 17, 2014 while doc alliance has made the experimental documentary the iron ministry available for 24 hours, is now streaming florian habichts pulp. Habicht never dives too deeply or casts his net too widely, but as a filmic love letter to sheffield, the resulting doc is full of small. Jul, 2014 pulp is partly a concert film of the bands possible last ever uk gig in their hometown of sheffield, but its also a requiem for the city itself. A film about life, death and supermarkets 2014 imdb. Pulp is by no means a traditional concert film or rock doc. Britpop band pulp found fame on the world stage in the mid1990s with anthems including common people and disco 2000. Though culminating with the farewell concert the band played to thousands of adoring fans in their hometown of sheffield, england, pulp is by no means a traditional concert film or rock doc. As much a testament to the band as it is to the city and inhabitants of sheffield, pulp weaves exclusive concert footage with manonthestreet interviews and dreamy staged sequences to paint a picture much larger, funnier, moving, and. Dynamic concert footage and hilarious interviews paint a portrait of a band and city thats funny, moving, and lifeaffirming. Find pulp a film about life, death and supermarkets dvd 2014 at. Pulp is less a documentary and more a love letter to. A film about life, death and supermarkets, which was a joint project with frontman jarvis cockerand that shows, for both better and worse.
As well as singing along with the common people, and interviews with jarvis cocker and band musing on everything from ageing to fishmongering, habicht reunites with his love story cowriter and cinematographer to pay. A film about life, death and supermarkets 2014 user. Documentary about the career of sheffield pop group pulp, featuring footage from their last ever concert in. A film about life, death and supermarkets, thats for sure. While doc alliance has made the experimental documentary the iron ministry available for 24 hours, is now streaming florian habichts pulp. A film about life, death and supermarkets bfi player. Oscilloscope laboratories is taking its rock doc pulp. Sheffields docfest played host to the european premiere of pulp. Florian habrichts witty, innovative documentary follows the legendary titular band perhaps the smartest and most charismatic in all of britpop as they prepare. Dynamic concert footage and hilarious interviews paint a portrait of a band and city thats funny, moving, and life affirming. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. If youre a pulp fan, you know that cutting lead singer jarvis cocker off just as he starts to pick up speed is tantamount to blasphemy. Gangly geek jarvis cocker is the most unlikely looking rockstar ever, but seeing the front man of the british indiepop group pulp ignite frenzied crowds of a packed stadium, you realise that he is, in fact, one of the very best.
Nov 19, 2014 but habichts film never goes beyond idol worship since his film only succeeds at reproducing cockers myopic vision of his band. Nov 17, 2014 in 2012, they played sheffield, their hometown, for the first time in years, and that show became the subject of the documentary pulp. A film about life, death and supermarkets dangerous minds. A film about life, death, and supermarkets 2014 special edition retail rental. Whatever the reason, this truly is a film about life, death, and supermarkets, which means its a far better film about pulp than any mere record of their final concert would have been.
Pulp a film about life, death and supermarkets 2014 tweet. Legendary britpop band pulp return to sheffield for their final performance in a rock doc like no other. With pulp, jarvis cocker, nick banks, candida doyle. A film about life, death and supermarkets 2014 on imdb. If you knew nothing about pulp before watching a film about life, death, and supermarkets, youd be forgiven for thinking that pulp was comprised of a charismatic lead singer, and a backup band. Twentyfive years after leaving sheffield to find fame in london, pulp return for a farewell concert. Following a disastrous farewell show in their hometown, pulp move to london in search of success.
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