Legendary cult doc
Heavy Metal Parking Lot will screen on Thursday, April 7 as part of the Found Footage Festival.
"This year marks the 25th-anniversary of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a documentary hailed by rock and film cognoscenti as one of the greatest rock documentaries of all time. To honor the occasion, the film will serve as the "opening band" for the touring comedy showcase, the Found Footage Festival, in a one-night-only engagement at the Creative Alliance on Thursday, April 7th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $10 and are available at www.foundfootagefest.com.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a mid-1980s time capsule from the golden age of heavy metal. Directors Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, armed only with a camera and sound gear, braved the parking lot of a Judas Priest concert in 1986 and captured 16 dense minutes of raucous and unexpurgated interviews from teenage metal heads. For nearly twenty years, VHS copies of Heavy Metal Parking Lot were dubbed and passed around, slowly building a worldwide cult following. A bootleg copy allegedly became a band-viewing favorite on Nirvana's tour bus, and Cameron Crowe called it "one of the greatest rock movies ever." Since then, the film has garnered a new generation of fans with a special-edition DVD release and a reality-TV series, PARKING LOT. Always a crowd-pleaser, this 25th anniversary tour finally puts HMPL where it was meant to be seen: on the big screen with an audience."
More info at
Broadway World.