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The Sparks Brothers

Fri, Aug 27 / 6:30pm
Sat, Aug 28 / 6pm
Sun, Aug 29 / 8pm
Wed, Sept 1 / 8:55pm
Sat, Sept 4 / 2pm
Sun, Sept 5 / 2pm
Wed, Sept 8 / 9pm
Thu, Sept 9 / 9:05pm
Directed Edgar Wright
2021, UK/USA, 140 min

How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Edgar Wright’s debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, which features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, and more, takes audiences on a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers/bandmates Ron and Russell Mael celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.

Reviews

The Sparks Brothers teams the Maels with a director whose absurdist slapstick sensibility perfectly matches their own.
– Mark Kermode, The Observer
From bucket-of-water tomfoolery to visually inventive biography and witty musicology, this really does have something for the girl with everything.
– Mark Kermode, The Observer
this funny, heartwarming, and thorough documentation of Sparks’ career [is] a benchmark by which all future music documentaries will be judged.
– Lorry Kikta, Film Threat
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