Music and Movie Mondays: It Might Get Loud

This season, there are just about as many documentaries slated to come out as there are fictional films, and with all the edu-tainment flying around, its hard to know what's worth your time. I am here to make a humble suggestion.

Davis Guggenheim, the same man who brought us An Inconvenient Truth back in the Bush years has turned to something a little less heady, but no less intriguing. He has based his whole film, It Might Get Loud, on one simple question: What would happen if you put three guitar gods in a room and just started filming? The answer is an intriguing and fun film, both for fans and novices alike.

While Guggenheim doesn't shed any new light on the world of electric guitar, he masterfully tells the stories of three of its heroes: Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin), The Edge (of U2), and Jack White (of the White Stripes). The multi-generational "rock talk" that takes place is interspersed with footage of the director's one-on-one time with each of the three men, and new views into their individual lives, which are often incredibly funny, are laid out. Some of the best moments from the film include:

-All three guys jamming together, each soloing and adding their own spin, but when Page's turn comes, White and The Edge can only sit there and watch him play with looks on their faces that can mean nothing else but "HOLY SHIT."

-White, on his dilapidated farm in Tennessee, making an electric guitar out of a board, a nail, a guitar string, and an empty glass bottle. He silently plays riffs off his new instrument and then looks up at the camera and says with a smirk: "Who says you need to buy a guitar?"

-A hand-drawn cartoon that accompanies White's description of his small room as a child, which was so full with musical equipment that he slept on a mat, diagonally in front of the door.

-Footage of the Edge in his highschool band: big hair and making googly-eyes at the camera during footage of an early performance. Hilarious.





It Might Get Loud continues at the Landmark Lagoon Cinema in Uptown. For showtimes visit the Lagoon's webpage.