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New Rush documentary interviews with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Wed, Jun 9, 2010@11:55AM | comments removed/disabled

UPDATE - 6/15@11:04AM: Here are some reviews from Rotten Tomatoes; it's 100% on the Tomatometer! (thanks 1-2-bucklemyshoe)

UPDATE - 6/14@3:17PM: Here's a video news clip from Artisan News Service covering the theatrical release. It contains an interview snippet with Geddy and Alex along with the filmmakers (thanks RushFanForever).

UPDATE - 6/14@3:07PM: Here's a nice review from Las Vegas Weekly.

UPDATE - 6/11@11:01PM: Here's a great review from Geeks of Doom (thanks kevin).

UPDATE - 6/11@10:42AM: Here's a nice little article from WickedLocal.com which talks about the documentary and female Rush fans (thanks to Donna Halper for the link).

UPDATE - 6/11@8:31AM: More reviews:

Toledo Blade: ['Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage': Rush documentary even for non-fans]
The Buffalo News: [Last Laugh]
St. John's Telegram: [Rush, the movie, won't be here long]

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UPDATE - 6/10@4:24PM: Reader YYZ let me know that the documentary will be showing at the Donington Download Festival this weekend. This isn't listed on the official site so I thought it would be worth mentioning. Here's the complete Download Festival cinema schedule.

UPDATE - 6/10@1:40PM: Here's a great review of the documentary from Metal Tim over at Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles.

UPDATE - 6/10@8:06AM: The documentary will be shown tonight in theaters across the US and Canada so a flood of interviews and reviews are coming out in today's papers. There's a feature in today's edition of NOW magazine which includes an interview with Geddy and Alex complete with a few audio snippets, an interview with the filmmakers, and a 4 out of 5 star review. There's also a feature in today's National Post which also includes this review of the film. There's also an interview with the filmmakers in the Times Colonist. Here are some more reviews:

Artvoice.com: [Priests of the Temples of Syrinx]
Toronto Sun: [Rush doc doesn't care for cool]
Metro News Canada: [Humour is at the heart of Beyond The Lighted Stage]
Canwest News Service: [Getting closer to the heart of Rush]
theVarsity.ca: [ON SCREEN: Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage]
The Montreal Gazette: [Movie review: Closer to their heart]

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UPDATE - 6/9@10:25PM: Here are a couple of 3 out of 4 star reviews; one from the Toronto Star and another from The Globe and Mail. There's also yet another interview with Geddy and Alex discussing the documentary in today's Toronto Star.

UPDATE - 6/9@3:48PM: Reader Psico just pointed out that the documentary will be shown in several theaters in Brazil next week on June 17th. Check out this link for theaters and showtimes.

UPDATE - 6/9@3:05PM: Here's a short B+ review of the film from Entertainment Weekly.

A trio of new interviews with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee were published yesterday by various news publications, all of which centered on the Rush documentary Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage. There's not much in the way of new information in any of the interviews but they are interesting reads nonetheless. The first comes from Spinner magazine for an article titled Rush Doc Gets 'Beyond the Lighted Stage' and Closer to Their Heart (thanks RushFanForever). The article talks about the documentary and contains a few interview snippets with Geddy Lee along with filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scott McFadyen. Metro News Canada published a short article yesterday titled Rush documentary captures 40 years of 'one foot in front of the other' which contains one interview snippet each from Geddy and Alex. The longest of the three articles comes from EyeWeekly.com. In this interview EyeWeekly's Stuart Berman sat down with both Geddy and Alex and asked them a few questions about the documentary including a question about the video for Subdivisions, where Berman inquires as to whether it was the band's first attempt at a narrative video:

... Lee: That�s true. It was kind of a homemade project, really, we did it with our friend Norm Stangl, who went on to make so many different productions for the tour. His forte was really special effects, so he just got some of the people he worked with together and jammed a little script together, as it were � I mean, the song is a script, it kind of says it all; they just basically brought the song to life.

Lifeson: We were actually in a rehearsal hall at Universal up on Steeles, and we just filmed it on one of our rehearsal days.

Lee: Yes, we actually shot it in the suburbs! ...

You can read the entire interview at this link.

Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage is being released to theaters across North America and Europe this week. A list of US cities/theaters can be seen here, a list of Canadian cities/theaters are at this location, and European release information can be found here. The documentary will be released on DVD/Blu-ray on June 29th in the US/Canada and July 5th in the UK. It will get its television premiere on VH1 and VH1 Classic on June 26th. You can check out all the coverage of the documentary's world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival including photos, videos, reviews, interviews and news articles in this post; for Canadian premiere coverage at Hot Docs see this post. The official trailer for the film can be viewed at this link along with these 2 preview clips.