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Johnny Physical Lives screens with We Are X, Japan's most successful band you probably never heard of. Produced by the team behind the Oscar winning Searching for Sugarman, We Are X is an intimate portrait of a deeply haunted, but truly unstoppable, band.
The long-awaited New York City Premiere of Johnny Physical Lives will be held at DOC NYC on Monday, November 14 at 5 p.m. at the IFC Center at 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street in Manhattan. The film will be part of a shorts program called "L-O-V-E," alongside 6 other super cool films that each explore what love means. Here’s the link for tickets.
What do Ad Reinhardt, Alex de Corte, and Johnny Physical have in common? All "Highbrow Brilliant" according to New York Magazine's Approval Matrix.
"Yes, it's a story about cancer, but it isn't a cancer story. Instead of the teary-eyed farewells and saintly messages of love and life we're used to seeing in tearjerkers like The Fault in Our Stars, we see Jonathan, a young musician (and Buddy Holly doppelgänger), in oversized pajamas rocking out in front of an audience at a cancer treatment center. While he battles cancer, he maintains the spirit of a rock star, continuing to record music and play gigs at the hospital in between rounds of treatments. The doc itself intersperses film footage shot during Jonathan's treatment with animations
As a little boy growing up in Paramus, New Jersey, Jonathan Neuman would fall asleep listening to Buddy Holly’s songs and dreaming about becoming a rock star. As a teen, he broadened his musical horizons by listening to the free form, independent radio station WFMU and fell in love with the early punk that sprang from New York City in the 1970s. Joshua Neuman was a guest on WFMU's "Prove It All Night!" show with Pat Byrne to talk about Jonathan's rock 'n' roll legacy, what WFMU meant to him, as well as the two improbable moments when he and Joey Ramone crossed paths. The segment starts at
Take a trip into the fantastical, rock 'n' roll universe of Johnny Physical and learn how the downtown scene of 1970s New York City inspired it in this exclusive interview.
Director Joshua Neuman tells the story of the Kickstarter campaign that helped bring his brother Jonathan back from the dead.
Join us for the London Premiere of Johnny Physical Lives at the Doc'n Roll Film Festival. The film will screen with 4 other music-inspired shorts from around the globe at the W Hotel Leicester Sq. (10 Wardour St, Leicester Square, London W1D 6QF). Tickets are £5 via this link.
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