The Toronto International Film Festival is among the best annual movie happenings in the world. As a music festival, it’s not bad either.Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street BandElton John: Never Too LateAnd there are still debuts yet to come this week, including John Maggio’sTakin’ Care of BusinessOn the feature side, eight-time Grammy award winner Anderson .
In a film world where there seems to be more music docs than ever, . Seemingly ordered up by record labels, the products are more music video and electronic press kit than true films.director Tyler Measom“But I would dare say any of the filmmakers you talk to at TIFF didn’t feel any pressure by either the artist or the labels or management to tell the story outside of the way they wanted to tell it.
Of course, there is another reason: Screening the films is an easy way to get more stars to the festival. So far, there have been red carpet sightings of the Bruce Springsteen , Andrea Bocelli, .Paak and Elton John. The surviving members of the Tragically Hip took part in a public sing-along on the street after the premiere screening ofTIFF has a long history with music royalty.
“There’s a certain generation that loves to watch documentaries about the songs of their youth,” Measom explained. “Moreover, musicians live fascinating lives. They do interesting things – they create fantastic works of art from nothing but thin air.” Measom’s documentary tells the story of Bachman’s relationship with his 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins model guitar. He wrote some of the best known songs by the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive on that orange electric instrument before it was stolen in 1976. The film suggests the guitar is “magical,” and that, without it, Bachman lost his mojo .at Roy Thomson Hall on Sunday night, Springsteen suggested the documentary about his current world tour “showed how the sausage is made.