Whoops, we should have got to this sooner. The White Stripes documentary, “Under Great White Northern Lights,” has started screening in select cities around North America. Based on a cross Canada 2007 tour — and when we say “across,” we mean it — the pair covered the entire nation, even hitting wintry cities that not even most big Canadian acts bother to play (too cold, too far off the regular concert tour path).
Music video director Emmett Malloy (Silversun Pickups, Weezer, Wolfmother, Metallica, Avril Lavigne; one half of the video directing team the Malloys) captured the experience and distilled it into this 93 minute film.
The doc premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, will screen at SXSW 2010, and comes out on a fancy, White Stripes Box-set that you can pre-order and comes out on March 16 (seems like a good gift for a White Stripes obsessive).
These screenings have passed, but hopefully you caught them.
February 26th SEATTLE – Northwest Film Forum @ 9:00pm
TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 9:15pm February 27th
SEATTLE – Northwest Film Forum @ 9:00pm
TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 9:15pmFebruary 28th
TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 4:30pm and 7:00pm March 1st TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 7:00pm
Here’s the screenings that are left.
March 2nd
TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 9:30pm
March 3rd
MINNEAPOLIS – Sound Unseen @ 6:00pm, 7:45pm and 9:45pm
TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 9:00pm
March 4th
PORTLAND – Mcmenamin’s Bagdad Theater @ 7:00pm
TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Theatre @ 7:00pm
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia – Cape Breton Island Film Series and East Coast Music Awards at Empire Theatre at 9:30 pm
March 8th
PHILADELPHIA – Trocadero Theatre @ 6:45pm
CHICAGO – The Music Box @ 7:30pm
March 9th
LOS ANGELES – The Egyptian Theater @ 8:00pm
March 10th
NEW YORK – IFC Center @ 8:00pm
ATLANTA – The Plaza Theatre @ 7:30pm
OTTAWA, Ontario – Mayfair Theatre @ 9:00pm
March 11th
SAN FRANCISCO – Variety Screening Room @ 6:30pm
NEW YORK – IFC Center @ 7:00pm and 9:00pm
DETROIT – Burton Theater @ 9:00pm
OTTAWA, Ontario – Mayfair Theatre @ 9:00pm
March 12th
WASHINGTON DC – AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center @ 9:30pm
AUSTIN – SXSW Film Festival Premiere, Paramount Theater @ 10:00pm
EDMONTON, Alberta – Metro Cinema in the Citadel Theatre @ 9:00pm
March 13th
KANSAS CITY – The Screenland Armour @ 7:00pm and 9:00pm
SALT LAKE CITY – Tower Theater @ 7:00pm
BOSTON – Brattle Theater @ 9:45pm
EDMONTON, Alberta – Metro Cinema in the Citadel Theatre @ 9:30pm
March 14th
EDMONTON, Alberta – Metro Cinema in the Citadel Theatre @ 9:00pm
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan – Broadway Cinema @ 7:00pm
March 15th
SAN FRANCISCO – Roxie Theater @ 9:45pm [TripWire for reminding us we should have posted this before some screenings were over]
here’s the trailer again if you missed it and a few clips.