This banned piece of film history had a brief life at the Sundance film festival of 2002 before officials at the White Stripes demanded director George Rocca stop showing it as the band did not give their permission to his showing of the film. Since then very few copies exist and not even on ebay could one pick up a copy.
The film itself was shot in shaky b&w with a dash of red added throughout. Captured over the duration of the band's 3 night stint at the Bowery Ball room in 2003 with the Strokes and Brendan Benson. There's pretty good insight into the bands backstage antics including Jack singing 'Crazy little thing called love', Jack and Brendan Benson discussing Kirsten Dunst. Meg watching cable network porn and the supposed Brother & Sister having close intimate chats.
The sound quality is pretty poor throughout and there are numerous continuity errors e.g. Jacks guitar changes throughout songs, the colour of Meg's top. This is nothing like their Blackpool Lights DVD in that it is not a whole performance but highlights mixed with backstage goings on and even following the Stripes from the Bowery to their hotel rooms.
Still all in all a brilliant watch, if you're a mega Stripes fan. As it is suspended from release indefinitely it makes it A holy grail for all bootleg collectors!
The film itself was shot in shaky b&w with a dash of red added throughout. Captured over the duration of the band's 3 night stint at the Bowery Ball room in 2003 with the Strokes and Brendan Benson. There's pretty good insight into the bands backstage antics including Jack singing 'Crazy little thing called love', Jack and Brendan Benson discussing Kirsten Dunst. Meg watching cable network porn and the supposed Brother & Sister having close intimate chats.
The sound quality is pretty poor throughout and there are numerous continuity errors e.g. Jacks guitar changes throughout songs, the colour of Meg's top. This is nothing like their Blackpool Lights DVD in that it is not a whole performance but highlights mixed with backstage goings on and even following the Stripes from the Bowery to their hotel rooms.
Still all in all a brilliant watch, if you're a mega Stripes fan. As it is suspended from release indefinitely it makes it A holy grail for all bootleg collectors!