Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out

[schwenko]

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is showing a series of rock films, including Julian Cope's "Glastonbury". a documentary on Mission of Burma, and Stewart Copeland's history of the Police film, "Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out", a film composed of his own filming of the Police throughout their existence. This film has been shown intermittently at film festivals throughout the world (LA, Toronto), and now makes a NYC appearance. August 5th 2006

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/rock ... tares.html

[schwenko]

I saw this film at Lincoln Center last night... quite well done with footage I gurantee you haven't seen elsewheres!
Just a few quick notes...

Stewart Copeland was there to introduce the film ("Just remember it's only home movies") and for an extended Q & A afterwards. Quite the extrovert!

He announced that "NOw that you are all here tonight, I want to tell you that this film will be shown tomorrow (August 6, 2006) on Showtime". Also, the film (+20-25 minutes of extra material) will,be released on DVD in September.

I asked if there would ever be a commercial dvd release of Urgh. He answered that many people had asked him that question and that the movie seemed to have a cult following ("it showed in LA last night"), but he doubted that it would ever be released. This was after an extended explanantion of the difficult process of obtaining permission to clear the rights to the songs and television material in his film. For example, for a song, he needed to get the permission of the singer, the songwriter, the music publisher and the record company (who owns the rights/original tapes).

After a few photos, collages, spoken explanation etc, the film begins in 1978, when after the Police had achieved a small measure of success in England, Copeland had some spare change in his pocket which he used to purchase a Super 8 camera. The resulting "home movies" of the police form the rest of the film. I suppose that some of the time that people other than Copeland was holding the camera since he was in the film most of the time. The film itself consists of what you might envision, small clips of performances, backstage, studio footage, hotel rooms, screaming fans, sheep in Australia, video shoots, etc etc.

And the music! Sounded great on the sound system (this IS Lincoln Center, you know[:)]. I was thinking to myself that I needed to refresh my aural knowledge of the Police since, while the songs sounded Police-ish I wasn't immediately recognizing things. Copeland later explained that he had "deconstructed" the music, hence my confusion. But with Copoeland's voiceover commentaries, captions and the glorious music I would highly recommend a viewing.

PS Before heading to Lincoln Center I dropped into an oldtime NWO citizen, Mr W Waukena himself, who was looking mighty fit, having lost 60 pounds in the last 6 months! Good to see you again Wayne!

np Fallout

[MARV]

Wow, that sounds extraordinary, Schwenk! A Q&A with Stewart Copeland, never before seen home movies of the Police, a deconstructed soundtrack and all of this at NYC's Lincoln Center.....incredible [|)] Let us know when the DVD drops! Thanks for sharing, as always!

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[Mechi]

I'm glad you've described the film for us!!! [:D]
I hope that it gets to Argentina.

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[schwenko]

From Sting's website:

Stewart Copeland's movie about The Police 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' will be broadcast several times this month on the SHOWTIME and SHOWTIME 2 channel in the USA.

Scheduled broadcast dates and times are as follows:

August 6 @ 8.30pm ET
August 9 @ 10pm ET
August 12 @ 11pm ET
August 18 @ 10pm ET (SHOWTIME2)
August 22 @ 6.45pm ET
August 24 @ 6.15pm ET (SHOWTIME2)
August 30 @ 9pm ET (SHOWTIME2)
August 31 @ 6.45pm ET