MPI Press Release: John Mellencamp: It's About You Coming To MPI Blu-ray And DVD On June 5, 2012
05.22.2012 -
MPI Press Release
An Intimate Portrait of a modern music legend and the hartland america that bred and inspires him. John Mellencamp: It's About You
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Is Seen in Concert and Recording His Latest
Album in the Revealing Film, Coming to MPI Blu-ray and DVD on June 5,
John Mellencamp has scored dozens of Top 40 hits, has been Grammy-nominated
13 times, and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but not even his
biggest fans have seen the artist revealed in the intimate music documentary
JOHN MELLENCAMP: IT’S ABOUT YOU. The movie, which follows the singer on tour and
in the recording studio, comes to high-definition, audio-enhanced Blu-ray and
DVD from MPI Home Video on June 5, 2012, with SRPs, respectively, of $29.98 and
$24.98. Over a career spanning 35 years, John Mellencamp has drawn inspiration from
his native Midwest to create songs that speak to all of America and the world.
His classics, like “Small Town,” “Jack & Diane” and “Pink Houses,” tell
powerful, poignant stories of ordinary people trying to live their lives with
meaning and integrity. JOHN MELLENCAMP: IT’S ABOUT YOU is the first inside look
at the man behind those beloved songs.
The movie’s co-directors, famed photographer Kurt Marcus and his son Ian,
travel along with Mellencamp on his 2009 concert tour with Bob Dylan and Willie
Nelson. They also film the writing and recording of Mellencamp’s universally
acclaimed 2010 album No Better Than This, the sessions for which took place at
several American musical landmarks. We see Mellencamp at Sun Studio in Memphis,
where Elvis Presley recorded his breakthrough classics, and recording (with a
mono tape recorder more than half a century old) in the same San Antonio hotel
room where legendary bluesman Robert Johnson created his seminal work.
The Markuses shoot in Super 8 to visually echo the authentic Americana that
resonates in Mellencamp’s music. Along the way, the rocker reveals an emotional
and contemplative side never before seen by the public, in a career-spanning
film that becomes a soulful meditation on his beloved heartland.
JOHN MELLENCAMP: IT’S ABOUT YOU received widespread critical praise upon its
theatrical release by MPI. “[Mellencamp’ music] digs deeply into the soil of
working-class American life in songs that express the defiance, despair and
nobility of people who refuse to go down without a fight,” wrote Stephen Holden
of The New York Times. “Markus and his son capture the poetic melancholy of a
mostly rural America with an eloquence that recalls the photographs of Robert
Frank,” said Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor.
Movieline’s Stephanie Zacharek called the movie “startling in its
perceptions,” while The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern called it “a
touching little film.” And Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said it’s “an
unhurried, visually compelling look at a man and his music – as well as of a
bygone America.”
JOHN MELLENCAMP: IT’S ABOUT YOU
Street date: June 5, 2012
Prebook: April 30, 2012
SRP: $29.98 (Blu-ray), $24.98 (DVD)
Running time: 80 minutes
Not rated
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