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I watched Sacha Gervasi's wonderful documentary Anvil!: The Story of Anvil one afternoon and was overcome with a warm and fuzzy feeling I had never felt when consuming anything to do with heavy metal music. In fact, I realized while watching his film that I have always judged the hairy meathead metal dudes that tend to populate this genre of music as sweaty, smelly and, most probably, angry, not-nice guys. But by five minutes into my Anvil adventure, I wanted to hug these metal monsters! They were actually more considerate and responsible than most people I know with short hair. I love that
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Following a breakout hit like In Search of Mozart was never going to be an easy task, even if you have been making documentaries for 25 years. But Phil Grabsky's latest feature, Escape from Luanda, a touching portrait of Angola's one and only music school, more than lives up to his reputation. Having premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in September 2007, the documentary then opened in the UK with a special screening for members of the Houses of Parliament. Despite the difficulties of getting cinemas to screen another film about music in Africa, Escape from Luanda played to sell-out