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  1. From the Sky Down, a documentary about U2 by American Davis Guggenheim, is to open the Toronto International Film Festival.

    Guggenheim, who produced and directed the Academy Award-winning environmental film An Inconvenient Truth, also directed the rock documentary It Might Get Loud and Waiting for Superman. He has been following the Irish band on its 360 tour.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/07/26/tiff-opening-films.html#.Ti7dIC4TrA4.facebook


  2. That sounds promising!!!
  3. Excited for this. It will be very, very poorly received, but I'm excited about this.


  4. Why would you think that? Guggenheim is a genious! I highly recommend his recent documentary 'Waiting for Superman' about USA school system.
  5. i bet it wil never surface in Italy for example
  6. Sounds good to me
    Might probably give a better view on the 360°-tour than the Rose Bowl dvd.
  7. Pretty sure the documentary is about Achtung Baby, not the 360 tour.
  8. From the press release for the Toronto Film Fest:

    "Last year, festival co-director Cameron Bailey broke with tradition and chose a non-Canadian film for opening night. This year, he went a step further by selecting the documentary by Guggenheim, who won an Oscar in 2007 for "An Inconvenient Truth." The filmmaker is no stranger to Toronto, having appeared at the fest for 2008's guitar doc "It Might Get Loud" (which featured U2 guitarist the Edge) and his 2010 look at the U.S. education system, "Waiting For Superman."
    Handling said "From the Sky Down" offers an inspiring glimpse of artists at work, documenting U2 as they make their 1991 album "Achtung Baby" and grapple with their identity as a band.
    "This year we felt the most appropriate film was to go with something just a little bit different that kind of celebrated the whole act of creativity," said Handling, adding that the Irish rockers will almost certainly be in town to walk the red carpet.
    "This is one of these bands that went through a moment in their career when they were trying to re-establish themselves as a band and I think we kind of responded to it because it's a little bit like what we are going through as an organization, TIFF. You're trying to reorient yourself and find a new direction, become perhaps bigger or truer to yourself or whatever and I think that resonated with us."
  9. Is this why they filmed the songs in Winnipeg I wonder?
  10. Can't wait to watch this one. I am doubtful that it will be included with the AB reissue, however. Too soon to put on DVD - unless it's going "straight to DVD!"
  12. Thoughts on the title? From The Sky Down.
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