Isaac Brock, Modest Mouse front man and songwriter, will compose the score for the upcoming feature film Queens of Country.
Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, the writing and directing team behind the film, are best known for their music documentaries including Blood Into Wine, The Heart Is A Drum Machine and Moog. The pair have placed an equal amount of importance on the scores to their films with both The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd (The Heart Is A Drum Machine) and Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer (Blood Into Wine) having contributed to their films.
Queens of Country stars Lizzy Caplan and Ron Livingston with supporting actors Joe Lo Truglio and Maynard James Keenan. The film centers on Lizzy Caplan's character Jolene and a lost iPod, which the obsessed country music fan is convinced belongs to her soul mate. Jolene quickly finds herself in a hilarious adventure of mistaken identities,...
Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, the writing and directing team behind the film, are best known for their music documentaries including Blood Into Wine, The Heart Is A Drum Machine and Moog. The pair have placed an equal amount of importance on the scores to their films with both The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd (The Heart Is A Drum Machine) and Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer (Blood Into Wine) having contributed to their films.
Queens of Country stars Lizzy Caplan and Ron Livingston with supporting actors Joe Lo Truglio and Maynard James Keenan. The film centers on Lizzy Caplan's character Jolene and a lost iPod, which the obsessed country music fan is convinced belongs to her soul mate. Jolene quickly finds herself in a hilarious adventure of mistaken identities,...
- 6/28/2011
- by MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
The Heart Is A Drum Machine is a music documentary with a laundry list of notable interviewees, from film (Jason Schwartzman, Tim & Eric, Fairuza Balk, Elijah Wood) and music (Isaac Brock, Kimya Dawson, George Clinton, John Doe). The Heart Is A Drum Machine (The Score) is, of course, the music behind the movie, created by The Flaming Lips’ multi-instrumental genius, Steven Drozd. Its dozen tracks—all but one an instrumental—are about what you’d expect from the guy who helmed the spacey, vocals-free interstitial music of modern-day classics like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, with ...
- 1/18/2011
- avclub.com
Lizzy Caplan stars in the upcoming comedy The Twinkle Cash Company announced today that principal photography on Queens of Country, a quirky comedy set in a rural southwestern town starring Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, Hot Tub Time Machine, True Blood) and Ron Livingston (Office Space, Band of Brothers, Sex and the City), begins on May 3 under the direction of well-known music documentarians Christopher Pomerenke and Ryan Page (Blood Into Wine, Moog, The Heart Is A Drum Machine).
Queens of Country centers around beauty queen and line dancing champion Jolene Gillis (Lizzy Caplan) who stumbles upon an iPod filled with her favorite country songstresses in a local truck stop bathroom. Convinced the owner, who has strikingly similar taste in country music, is her soulmate, Jolene upends her world to track down the man of her dreams.
The film's cast is rounded out by Joe Lo Truglio (Superbad, Role Models), Matt Walsh (The Hangover,...
Queens of Country centers around beauty queen and line dancing champion Jolene Gillis (Lizzy Caplan) who stumbles upon an iPod filled with her favorite country songstresses in a local truck stop bathroom. Convinced the owner, who has strikingly similar taste in country music, is her soulmate, Jolene upends her world to track down the man of her dreams.
The film's cast is rounded out by Joe Lo Truglio (Superbad, Role Models), Matt Walsh (The Hangover,...
- 4/22/2010
- MovieWeb
Blood Into Wine, the documentary about Maynard James Keenan (front man for Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle) and vineyard partEric Glomski's mission to bring notoriety and credibility to Northern Arizona's burgeoning wine industry, continues to expand to more U.S. cities.
Blood Into Wine was co-directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, the team behind critically acclaimed documentaries Moog and The Heart Is a Drum Machine). FilmCritic.com called the film: "a rock 'n roll version of Sideways," the Los Angeles Times said "The frisson between his [Keenan] well-crafted personal mystique and the way the film presents him as a dedicated new winemaker learning his craft is intriguing" and the San Diego CityBeat added: "It's a behind-the-curtain peek at a notoriously publicity-shy celebrity, but more than that, it's a fascinating look at pioneers braving the Arizona elements to create drinkable art."
Upcoming Screenings
Az - Flagstaff - May 22 - Orpheum TheatreAZ - Tempe - Mar.
Blood Into Wine was co-directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, the team behind critically acclaimed documentaries Moog and The Heart Is a Drum Machine). FilmCritic.com called the film: "a rock 'n roll version of Sideways," the Los Angeles Times said "The frisson between his [Keenan] well-crafted personal mystique and the way the film presents him as a dedicated new winemaker learning his craft is intriguing" and the San Diego CityBeat added: "It's a behind-the-curtain peek at a notoriously publicity-shy celebrity, but more than that, it's a fascinating look at pioneers braving the Arizona elements to create drinkable art."
Upcoming Screenings
Az - Flagstaff - May 22 - Orpheum TheatreAZ - Tempe - Mar.
- 3/25/2010
- MovieWeb
Musician Maynard James Keenan is out to transform Arizona into a wine Mecca in this hilarious new documentary
Musician Maynard James Keenan is a notoriously elusive and very private guy. He's also a very hard interview. And he hates being on camera. Which begs the question, "Why would he want to make a documentary about himself?" Directors Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke provide that answer with their hilarious and heartfelt plunge into the Tool frontman's personal life Blood Into Wine. For Keenan, it's all about the art of fermentation. This explorative documentary traces Maynard as he leaves Los Angeles for a small ghost town in Arizona, where he plans to transform the world of wine into something new, unique, and riotously delicious.
A wine enthusiast, Keenan has long dreamed of creating a new world class wine region within the barren Verde Valley alongside his mentor Eric Glomski, a former David Bruce...
Musician Maynard James Keenan is a notoriously elusive and very private guy. He's also a very hard interview. And he hates being on camera. Which begs the question, "Why would he want to make a documentary about himself?" Directors Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke provide that answer with their hilarious and heartfelt plunge into the Tool frontman's personal life Blood Into Wine. For Keenan, it's all about the art of fermentation. This explorative documentary traces Maynard as he leaves Los Angeles for a small ghost town in Arizona, where he plans to transform the world of wine into something new, unique, and riotously delicious.
A wine enthusiast, Keenan has long dreamed of creating a new world class wine region within the barren Verde Valley alongside his mentor Eric Glomski, a former David Bruce...
- 2/18/2010
- MovieWeb
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