Le documentaire tant attendu sur le groupe et filmé durant le Lost Highway Tour sera présenté en avant première le 29 Avril 2009 au Tribeca Film Festival à New York.
Le DVD sortira certainement très vite ensuite ...

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Voilà l'image inédite choisie par le Backstage pour annoncer l'avant première du documentaire.
Une photo qui a été prise il n'y a pas longtemps au vue de la coupe de cheveu de Jon (la même que pour le concert Jon Bon Jovi and Friends) :

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Mike. Je me suis fait la même réflexion pour la coupe de cheveux........tu crois qu'ils ont l'intention de se recycler dans la vente de chaises ?

merci pour la photo

Et encore une p'tite photo:
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Je me le suis tellement passé et repassé que j'suis sûr que c'est plutôt une saisie du très joli clip de Whole Lot Of Leavin'

Bien vu, c'est vrai
J'suis d'accord avec toi, c'est un joli clip qu'ils nous ont fait là

Des précisions intéressantes, le pourquoi du noir et blanc et la "censure" de Jon sur ce que sera le doc in fine, Richie voulait notamment parler de ses soucis avec l'alcool ms Jon a voulu le couper il me semble ...
Enfin bref, à lire

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Visual flair lies at the heart of Bon Jovi documentary When We Were
Beautiful. Shot by photographer-by-trade Phil Griffin, shown at Tribeca
as a work in progress. His black and white photography recalls that of
Anton Corbijn - and we all know how well his move from still
photography to the moving image worked out. This isn't a slavish biopic
tracking the band from their beginnings through the height of their
success, but rather a snapshot of where they are now, both physically -
tracking them through their Lost Highway tour - and emotionally, as
they speak about the psychology that has kept them together down the
years. Insightful and great to look at, this is sure to please fans who
want to know more about what makes Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Tico
Torres and David Bryan tick but there's plenty here for the casual
observer to admire as well. The only thing that I can think that may
still need to be done to the film is some colour correction, since
oddly the tone of the black and white seemed to shift slightly through
the course of the movie.

After the screening, I asked him why he'd chosen to shoot in
monochrome. He said: "I'm a photographer as well as a filmmaker and
When this film was originally conceived I had taken a series of
photographs of Jon in Minnesota when he was performing. And he saw one
particular shot, which was a black and white shot, which he loved, and
asked me to go on tour with the band so I could do more photography.
So, I joined the Lost Highway tour just after Minnesota and did a month
with them on the road doing stills, all of which were black and white -
they always look good like that. And then he said: 'I really like this
one picture, it's me - it's a grumpy old guy who sits in the corner
moaning about things. I'd like you to make a film like this
photograph.' And I said: 'Well, okay, this is your 25th anniversary and
as long as you allow me to expose the band like those black and white
photographs, I will do it.'

So the working title of the film was 25 Years In Black And White and
black and white not because of the colour but because black and white
is the truth."

He went on to say he shot around nine months of footage. When asked
about the 'work in progress' moniker attached to it here, he said: "In
many ways it is complete but I wanted to see what people thought of it,
because if they left me I would work on it for another...
There's so much footage and so many scenes we could add and so much
honesty in what the guys said to me that I wanted to see it on a screen
and in a cinema before I said, it's done."

When asked how Jon reacted to the film, he says it was "mixed". He
adds: "There were a lot of conversations about what would be included
and what wouldn't be included. He felt quite exposed by some of the
things that I managed to get him to say, as did Richie, and we had many
conversations about that. He's a very good collaborator because he
knows what he's good and and he knows what he's not good at, but he has
a very big opinion about what he's not good at at the same, but if you
talk long enough and hard at him he will give in, because he just gets
bored.

"My final comment with some of the lines that he wanted removed from
the film was that if Richie's prepared to sit on a boat with me and
talk about his addictions, then you should be willing to talk about how
great but tiring your life is."

He adds that he was "absolutely not" a fan of the band before he
began to work with them. He says: "I think there are many pluses to the
fact that I knew nothing about their history - and I didn't read
anything about them either. I did a little bit of Googling about who
each character was and got their Wikipedia stuff up but I wanted to go
into those conversations with them not knowing much, so I could learn
something."

He also says it was a conscious decison both to focus on the band
themselves, not their families, and to keep their current position at
the forefront, without going over the ashes of the past. He adds: "We
wanted to refer to the past but I wanted this to be a contemporary look
at a band that have lasted a long time and I didn't want it to be a
Behind The Music because then I didn't think it would be a film, it
would just be a retrospective, I wanted to hear what they had to say
now."

On devait apprendre pleins de choses backstage, c'est ce qui avait été dit au départ du projet il me semble...........j'ai l'impression qu'on ne verra rien de nouveau et qu'on n'apprendra rien de plus que ce qu'on sait déjà..........j'espère que je me trompe, et aussi j'aurais aimé que Jon ne mette pas son véto sur les propos des membres du groupe, quels qu'ils soient. Bref, je réserve mon avis définitif pour quand on pourra visionner le DVD. Franck de nous dénicher toutes ces infos.

Le DVD devrait être dispo avec l'édition Deluxe du CD "The Circle".
Et le documentaire devrait passer sur une chaine américaine d'ici quelques semaines.

Visible en exclusivité sur la chaîne câblée Showtime le 24 Octobre

Citation:

News [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image] THERE’S NO HIDING IN THE SPOTLIGHT; SHOWTIME® TO PREMIERE BON JOVI: WHEN WE WERE BEAUTIFUL September 24, 2009 First-Ever Bon Jovi Documentary Explores a Band’s Journey through 25 Years of Brotherhood Premieres Saturday, October 24th at 9 PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME LOS ANGELES, CA – (September 24, 2009) – Bon Jovi has built one of the biggest success stories in rock music history – now that story will be told by the band themselves. The documentary, WHEN WE WERE BEAUTIFUL, premiering Saturday October 24th at 9 PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME offers an intimate glimpse at these globally celebrated icons who remain, at their core, a band of brothers from New Jersey. Directed by filmmaker and photographer Phil Griffin and produced by Academy Award®-and Emmy-winning producers @radical.media, the documentary was filmed on the road and behind the scenes with the band during their 2008 Lost Highway World Tour, which famously came to a close with a historic concert in New York City’s Central Park. At the height of their success—with another number one album and the number one grossing tour of 2008 in Billboard magazine-- Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful reveals the secrets behind this legendary band’s determined and charismatic leader Jon Bon Jovi, and band members Richie Sambora, David Bryan, and Tico Torres. Threading intimate band-member interviews with scenes of life on the road, WHEN WE WERE BEAUTIFUL vividly portrays how the band made it through the rough patches, how they reach consensus on their priorities, and how Jon leads them with strength and compassion. Avid Bon Jovi fans will find plenty of new reasons to be so devoted, but anyone can revel in this exploration of the work that goes into the success and longevity of this band’s magnitude. “Throughout the process of working with Bon Jovi, I was amazed at the candor and humility Jon and his band showed me,” said director Phil Griffin. “The result is not a neatly wrapped up bundle of staged interviews and musical interludes, but rather a series of open and sometimes difficult conversations, explored against a backdrop of music spanning 25 years. It is a film about the peace of Tico, the complexity of Richie, the drive of Jon and the brutal honesty of Dave. It is their willingness to share their stories that gives us what I hope is a very human story—that humanity is what I believe has seen this band stand the test of time.” Bon Jovi has set the bar for more than two decades as one of the most successful rock bands in the world, and was 2008's top touring act in the world, coming in at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Tour chart. Globally, they have sold more than 120 million albums and performed more than 2,600 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans. A new studio album, The Circle will be released on November 10th and the new single “We Weren’t Born to Follow” is climbing the radio charts at record speed.. In addition to the documentary, Harper Collins will release a 192-page companion book on Oct 27th also titled When We Were Beautiful. Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation, owns and operates the premium television networks SHOWTIME®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ and FLIX®, as well as the multiplex channels SHOWTIME 2TM, SHOWTIME® SHOWCASE, SHOWTIME EXTREME®, SHOWTIME BEYOND®, SHOWTIME NEXT®, SHOWTIME WOMEN®, SHOWTIME FAMILY ZONE® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ XTRA. SNI also offers SHOWTIME HD®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ HD, SHOWTIME ON DEMAND® and THE MOVIE CHANNELTM ON DEMAND. SNI also manages Smithsonian Networks, a joint venture between SNI and the Smithsonian Institution. All SNI feeds provide enhanced sound using Dolby Digital 5.1. SNI markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SHOWTIME PPV®.

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