Now, this will be one to see. And yet it will be difficult for most people to see, since it’s only screening for one night at TIFF so getting tickets for it will be undoubtedly crazy. Ron Howard has two films showing at the festival, the other being the Chris Hemsworth-starring Rush, which opens a couple of weeks following its opening in Toronto. For me at least, Made in America is the film that garners far greater interest, since it features Ron Howard trying his hand for the first time at documentary, a genre that has been exciting territory for traditional narrative directors like Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese to experiment in.
The doc serves as a showcase of the Made in America Music Festival based in Philadelphia and founded only a year ago by Jay-Z. The second edition of the festival is actually taking place presently, at the time of this writing, and so the documentary is likely to offer an interesting look at the festival one year later. The lineup alone makes this a concert movie worth seeing: Pearl Jam, Rum-DMC, Janelle Monae, Skrillex, and Jay-Z and Beyoncé themselves. Although One Direction: This Is Us set the bar pretty high for concert films this year, Made in America could be the one film to top it.
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