An Editorial

From hollywood-elsewhere.com:

Amazing Mystery of Anvil


So how did Sacha Gervasi's Anvil! The Story of Anvil manage to win two IDA Documentary Awards -- i.e., best feature-length doc and best music documentary -- last night while not even making the Academy's feature-doc shortlist? How could there be such a huge disconnect from between the Academy's documentary committee and the IDA? Especially with Anvil's recent nomination for a Best Doc Spirit award?

Is it that the IDA and the Spirit committees are younger, hipper, less stodgy? Except Anvil! is about balding heavy-metal musicians in their 50s afraid of losing their mojo. The film is about struggle, rebirth, redemption. It's primarily a heart movie. The ending is pure Hollywood. How old and blinkered and plugged up do you have to be to consider Anvil too hip for the room? 85?

Anvil producer Rebecca Yeldham told me this morning that "one of our most amazing screenings was up at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival where the median age was 55. And when it ended we got a rousing standing ovation from an audience of upper middle-class Jews. It's really a movie for everyone. Hopefully people will open their minds [after last night's win]."

An editorial from me: Do yourself a favor and rent this movie!