PREVIEW: The Sparks Brothers (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

(as themselves) Ron Mael, Russell Mael, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Beck, Flea, Jonathan Ross, Patton Oswalt, Scott Aukerman, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Visconti, Mike Myers, Giorgio Moroder, Fred Armisen, Neil Gaiman, Earle Mankey, Harley Feinstein, Todd Rundgren, Nick Heyward, Steve Jones, John Hewlett, Christi Haydon, Leslie Bohem, Björk, Alex Kapranos, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Vince Clarke, Stevie Nistor, Andy Bell, Lance Robertson, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Jane Wiedlin, April Richardson, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino, Tosh Berman, Pamela Des Barres, Mark Gatiss, Adam Buxton, Jack Antonoff, Thurston Moore, Edgar Wright

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead), director; George Hencken (Soul Boys of the Western World), Nira Park (Hot Fuzz) and Laura Richardson (The Kid Who Would Be King), producers; Jake Polonsky (Senna), cinematographer; Paul Trewartha (Joud), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Director Edgar Wright and a host of celebrity fans pay glorious tribute to the eccentric music career of siblings Ron and Russell Mael, who form the pop and rock group Sparks…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Filmmaker extraordinaire Edgar Wright turns to the documentary format for the first time with a beautifully upbeat and characteristically oddball tribute to the cult music duo of Sparks, along with an extensive long-list of celebrity interviewees and hardcore fans of the duo’s wildly undefinable work.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 29TH JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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