Director: Emmett Malloy
Year: 2009
Cinematographer: Giles Dunning
The 2007 tour of Canada that opened up their 6th full-length release, Icky Thump. Its a more comprehensive look into Jack's philosophy, although does a good job by not letting him talk too much during the documentary, because, although full of music history and theory, lets face it, we'd rather here him make music with Meg than pontificate about himself.
The concerts are an extremely interesting subject for a concert film, as some of the venues are so small and unconventional that you really get an enormously genuine and personal performance every time, not to mention being more visual interesting.
Feel like Jack should get a co-direction credit here for choosing the locations and times and circumstances of the shows. He helps the filmmaker by giving him a great subject, and Malloy covers a lot of the main bases, but ultimately I wanted more. I wanted not just a glossy praising of Jack White, but a gritty look into whatever conflicts surround him, I wanted to see him planning, wrestling with himself, fighting others for his creative freedom... its fun to just see them be cool, but not as interesting... on the other hand, I LOVE the choice to shoot actual film, looks like 16mm in many places, it suits the band and their music. The music is great, my personal favorite if you are talking concert films, beat out only by Jimi Hendrix maybe. I was especially moved by their cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene".
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