White Stripes Doc May Do Toronto Film Fest

Another close text scoop from the folks at The Playlist: The White Stripes doc (which they amazingly caught reference to in an otherwise longer piece in Self-Titled mag about Jack’s latest band Dead Weather) has a new doc on the way. Per Jack, there are 40 songs to be mixed. And now in Canada’s National Post (do those guys read everything or have the best settings for Google reader?), there is “speculation” that the doc The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights is expected to close out this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Per the Playlist:

The doc was shot on the Stripes 2007 Canadian tour, where they played a gig in every province and territory. A tribute, White says, to his Nova Scotia roots. White says about the tour, “I always thought it was an untapped frontier. We booked a show in every province and territory and we found out that no Canadian band had done that. It was great to be part of a new frontier there for a minute or two.”

I think Anvil played Toronto last year (it certainly opened Hot Docs) so credit Canadian cineastes to getting hip to rock docs. (The As Ugly As I Seem clip above is from Charlie Rose, not the upcoming film.)

Another Rock Star Oenophile

Motley Crue’s Vince Neil got some attention a few years back for starting his own wine label. But Tool’s Maynard James Keenan is taking it a step further, by opening his own vineyard – and in an Arizona desert to boot.

His endeavor is the subject of an upcoming documentary, which is a very quirky rock doc. Keenan is an Arizona native and back in 2006, he discussed how he got hip to wine:

Being in an occupation that requires me to travel quite a bit, you’re just exposed to more cultural things than you would if you were growing up in the suburbs of Boise, Idaho. When you’re drinking warm Coca-Cola and your accountants and managers and booking agents are walking around with these nice glasses with nice red juice in it, you say, ‘Hey, that doesn’t look like what I’ve been drinking in the dressing room. What’s that? I’m not going on stage unless I get to have what you have.’

The recently released trailer is luminously shot (with the much hailed RED camera, which earns its props) and really gives a cool ghostly, mysterious, wild west vibe to what is basically an effete hobby.

The doc is being helmed by Ryan Page, most well known for his films Moog about electronic music pioneer Bob Moog, and the recent The Heart Is A Drum Machine . He’s hoping to finish the film for a 2010 release and I’m hoping one day to get a taste of wine that’s grown in the desert.