Anvil! The Story of Anvil News

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of the final group of 15 films that will contend for the Best Documentary Feature award this week, and with said announcement comes a twinge of bittersweetness.

Prominent documentaries including Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story," James Toback's "Tyson," Sacha Gervasi's "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" and R.J. Cutler's "The September Issue" failed to make the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 15-film shortlist for feature docs.

Sacha Gervasi a ' the director of "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" , a mockumentary-like true account of fiftysomething Canadian heavy-metal practitioners Robb Reiner and Steve "Lips" Kudlow who, after a desultory European tour with their band ANVIL , decide to record a 13th album in a final attempt to fulfill their boyhead dreams of stardom a ' ...

According to indieWIRE , ANVIL 's acclaimed documentary, "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" , has been nominated in the "Feature Documentary" category at the International Documentary Association 's 2009 IDA Documentary Awards competition.

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There is much to amuse and admire in Anvil! The Story of Anvil , the award-winning "rockumentary" directed by Sacha Gervasi.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil was named DVD/film of the year Monday evening in London at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards.

Film Independent's Spirit Awards are moving from the beach in Santa Monica to downtown's L.A. Live complex.

Vera Farmiga and James Caan have been set to star with Keanu Reeves in "Henry's Crime," the romantic comedy that will be directed by Malcolm Venville .

This report marks one side of a two-part look at how the industry feels about Oscar's new rules.

The new cinema at the Warch Campus Center has been busy this term. Along with faculty and student groups sponsoring film screenings, there is the ongoing Movies at Midnight on Fridays and the Independent Film Series that plays regularly on Wednesdays.

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It's hard to imagine a film that's taken a more circuitous route to awards season, or a public screening, than the Canadian heavy-metal documentary " Anvil : The Story of Anvil." Premiering with high expectations at Sundance nearly two years ago, Sacha Gervasi's surprisingly poignant look at an underachieving group of middle-aged, big-haired ...

The guessing game can end for another season. The first official 2009Academy viewingscreener was mailed Thursday to the nearly 6,000-person membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and should be in their hands this weekend.

First we rock, then we go out and get those Oscar votes, then we rock Michel Gondry's Green Hornet movie so hard that it explodes! That's the plan for aging rockers Anvil, the subjects of Sacha Gervasi's head-banging documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil .

As Halloween approaches, the week's new DVDs tend towards the horrifying, whether it's the reason for the season in Trick 'r Treat , against sagging body parts in Nip/Tuck , against your ears in Anvil: The Story of Anvil or against your gag reflex in Man vs.

A spectacular restoration of a Disney classic and an improbably compelling documentary about a hard-luck rock band are among this week's platinum picks on DVD.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Those are the chilling last words of Roman Polanski and Robert Towne's great dark tale of politics, murder, and family secrets in '30s Los Angeles.

Tuesday's new DVD releases include "Year One," "Imagine That," "My Life in Ruins" and "Anvil! The Story of Anvil." Cavemen , rockers and imaginary friends come to DVD today.

At fourteen, they made a pact to rock together forever. They meant it. Anvil! is a documentary about a long-running heavy metal band struggling to earn recognition and respect while still slaving away at grueling day jobs and dud concerts.