A new documentary about the fast times and life of debauched Motorhead reprobate Lemmy Kilmister is being feted in a film tentatively titled “Lemmy.” Slated for release in 2009, the doc is set to feature interviews with the many past and present members of the band and such admirers as Slash, Dave Grohl, the Clash’s Mick Jones, Alice Cooper, Steve Vai and WWE wrestling celebrity Triple H. [Billboard]
The Abel Ferrara documentary about the infamous Chelsea Hotel, in New York, “Chelsea On The Rocks” will have a score by G.E. Smith, Tony Garnier, Robert Burger and Jim White with additional music by Sonic Youth and Love and Rockets. Music and archival footage of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious appear in the documentary and the soundtrack will come out via Atlantic records. Re-enactments of famous Chelsea events — including famous folks like Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, Janis Joplin — will be performed by Bijou Phillips, Jamie Burke, Adam Goldberg, Giancarlo Esposito and Grace Jones. [SetList]
“It was life-changing, nothing short of. The big ambition is to get people to change the discourse on the war a little bit, to get people started. ” – Eddy Moretti, c0-director of “Heavy Metal In Baghdad,” a documentary about Iraq’s only metal outfit, Acrassicauda. The film opens in New York and L.A. this weekend. [New York Times]
Richard Dreyfuss is getting back to comedy. Or at least getting back to the comedy that should be Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, “W.” The actor has been cast as perennially vexed VP, Dick Cheney. We still think Brian Cox would have been a much fiercer choice for the irascible Veep. [Hollywood Reporter]
According to IMDB, Toby Jones (the uber-fey Truman Capote in “Infamous”) will play Karl Rove [IMBD]
