By Popular Demand, Radiohead "Meeting People is Easy" Screenings Added Through June.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 30, 1999-- Home Video and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Release Moved to May 18th Following sold out screenings in Austin, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Chicago, Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI, located in Hollywood, California. Its headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. and Seventh Art Releasing have added additional screenings of the Radiohead film Meeting People Is Easy in Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Ithaca and Seattle, with additional markets to be confirmed. The film premiered at Austin's South By Southwest music conference in March, and was held over for extra weekends in Los Angeles and New York after all scheduled screenings sold out and fans had to be turned away. With the new screening dates and the broadcast premiere on the film scheduled for May 16th on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , the street date of the film has been moved to May 18th from May 4th. An edited 50 minute broadcast version will air on MTV's "120 Minutes" at midnight on Sunday, May 16th as part of a Radiohead special, featuring exclusive interview and performance footage. Radiohead have built an impressive following, all the while defying popular conventions in writing, recording and promoting their music. Their last album, OK Computer, stands as an unique achievement in rock and roll history, and was recently selected as one of The Essential Recordings of the '90s by Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person , along with The Bends. Shot during the year of promotion and touring for the Grammy-winning platinum record, Meeting People is no different: "Were it about anyone other than Radiohead, Meeting People would come across as the indulgent whinings of coddled rock stars. But director Grant Gee (who also shot "No Surprises") winds up beautifully detailing the emptiness at the eye of the hurricane of hype." Craig McLean, Spin "It's not exactly news that rock stardom is a tedious gig, but it's never looked this bad before, and you can't take your eyes off it. Gee uses all of his technically stunning effects to turn the tour into a jittery, nearly colorless blur of images, a ninety-four minute psychedelic collage of road fatigue." Rob Sheffield Rob Sheffield is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. In addition to writing music reviews and profile stories, Sheffield also writes the Pop Life column in the Mixed Media section of the magazine. , Rolling Stone "This is in a different league to most rock longform video. Chilling and gorgeous to look at and listen to, this sets the standard." Stuart Maconie, Q "(Meeting People) stands as a compelling, distinctive document" Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety "...(an) innovative road film...shot in an engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. style by Grant Gee, the film captures the tedium of touring." Alternative Press "Gee's arresting shots of New York...Barcelona, London, Paris, Berlin and Tokyo are interspersed with live show and studio footage as well as numerous scenes of the band exhibiting pre-show and post-show emotions." Roxanne Ruben, Allstar Screening dates currently confirmed are as follows. -0-
April 30-May 6 Boston, MA Brattle Theatre - 10:00 PM
(WBCN will sponsor the screening on May 3rd)
May 1-2 Cleveland, OH Cleveland Film Festival:
Cleveland Cinemateque - 9:30 PM
May 2 Detroit, MI 89X Screening: The Magic Bag -
Doors at 8:00 PM
May 7-8 Detroit, MI Main Art Theatre - midnight
shows
May 13, 14, 16 Ithaca, NY Cornell Cinema - 9:00 PM
June 11-12 Seattle, WA Egyptian Theatre - midnight
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