It Might Get Loud
David Guggenheim:
It Might Get Loud (USA, 2008)
97 min. - English
It Might Get Loud is one of the most considerable music documentaries made in the last few years. A lot has been put into this film's production, and it shows. The beautiful shots and the spectacular soundtrack should be enjoyed in the quality surroundings of a film theatre. It is not often that documentaries about musicians are portrayed as intimately and captivatingly as Davis Guggenheim does in It Might Get Loud. This film had its Finnish premiere in Oulu Music Video Festival in August.
Although in the surface It Might Get Loud is a film about guitarists and guitar playing, it manages to gain something more. In their reminiscings and discussions together The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White reveal their childhood dreams about becoming a rock star and the reasons why they grabbed the guitar fot the first time. It Might Get Loud reveals how a furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a painter from London and a school boy from Dublin fell for music and created their own sound that raised them into super stardom. The inspiring film suits for everyone. As the film ends in a mutual jamming session of the three stars, the viewers don't have to be guitarists to understand the unique vibrations of the situation. It Might Get Loud is a wonderful film about playing and creativity.
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David Guggenheim
After graduating from Brown, Guggenheim moved to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking. He was executive producer for the film Training Day and director of Gossip, both released in 2001. In 2002, Guggenheim’s documentary The First Year, which chronicled the challenges of novice public-school teachers in Los Angeles, won a Peabody Award in broadcast television and the Grand Jury Prize at the Full Frame Film Festival, the premiere U.S. documentary film festival.
David Guggenheim directed and executive-produced the 2007 Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which featured former Vice President Al Gore and garnered worldwide box office receipts of more than $50 million. Guggenheim has been a producer and director on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Deadwood as well as such critically acclaimed television series as The Unit, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, and Party of Five.
