Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor on the new Shayne Carter documentary 'Life in one chord'

The new documentary on musician Shayne Carter titled 'Life in one chord' has been described as one to watch in the cinemas by flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall.

He told Francesca Rudkin that, "the need for volume in a Shayne Carter documentary is very important, and it's also beautifully filmed.'

The documentary will be shown in cinemas around New Zealand next week.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks, EDB Times.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Talking Entertainment Now, and I'm joined by Steve Newle, editor
at flickstock Co dot m Z.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning, Good morning, back in the hot seat.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, good to have you back. I'm trying to remember
how we do this show. It's slowly coming back to me.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Let's start with some words. Can you say some words
and I'll say something then we'll kind of get into
the groove.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Very amazing a little bit of Shane Canter there with Dimmer.
I am very keen to see the doc o Life
on one Quarter. I didn't get the chance to see
it at the New Zealand International Film Festival, but very
much looking forward to seeing it when it hits cinemas.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, this is in limited release in cinemas this coming
week and I was lucky enough to see it that
it's screening here in Auckland. It was kind of a
late bookend to the festival here. They held the screenings
around the country until it had its world premiere in
Dunedin as it should have.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
It should have absolutely, but it.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Was a great experience seeing it on the big screen,
and while you know, the kind of biographical elements of
a documentary kind of sometimes you kind of think, like,
I'll just watch it on the couch. The need for
volume and a Shane Carter documentary is very important and
it's also beautifully beautifully filmed, So catch this one in
cinemas if you can. Kind of recounts his life story.

(01:20):
Shane published a fantastic memoir a couple of years ago,
Dead People I Have Known, which really revealed an uncannyability
with the written word of Shane Carter's He told his
life story and his experience and bands from board games
A double Happy Straight Jack. It fits to dinner and
beyond great read. Thoroughly recommend it, and this documentary kind

(01:40):
of draws on that a little bit. But it's got
the advantage of being able to hear the music, you know,
not just not just read about it. Essential and he's
one of New Zealand music's great rock stars. I think,
Shane and his own and with a very New Zealand sentiment,
because there's a there's a rice cynicism to so much
of his personality that I think there aren't many like

(02:02):
him of any So this is a limited release good
time is any plug flicks dot coto en z where
you can see everywhere that a film is playing. So
Shane card Life on one cords the name of the doco.
It's not playing everywhere, so yeah, hit to flex and
find out where it's playing in a cinema you and
go see with a bunch of people and have some
good reminiscences afterwards.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Absolutely, the Toxic Avenja.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Now this is from one extreme into the other.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I know where I'm going from one extreme other Is
this a couple of years old, but it's finally.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yes, So this was this is sat around for a
minutes and I think part I'm not totally down with
the back room discussions around it. But look, here's the deal.
I grew up in the video store era. I saw
the Toxic Avenger looming down at me from the video
store shelf for years before I saw a mutant. A mutant.
Yeah this is so it's made in eighty four and
so this sort of been a huge beneficiary of the

(02:51):
VHS era, right Like there would have been a copy
of this and most videos stores in the Western world,
I'm sure, and you know would have cost nothing to make.
This is an ultimate like B movie on a C
movie budget. Go to the mutant face holding a mop
and a two two. It's called the Toxic Avenger and
it had a red star grown up because that stuff
was restricted. Man, this was bad boy movie business. Of course,

(03:13):
you know, some things do or do not live up
to their covers, but this had such a formative effect
on people, and director mac and Blair has been tasked
with making this remake. He also grew up with the
same kind of experience and it was one of the
films that inspired him to make movies on the VHS
camera in his backyard with his best friend Jeremy. The
Jeremy here being Jeremy Saunier, who's the filmmaker who made

(03:34):
Green Room and Rebel Ridge. There's a really great streak
of his own films. So this new version really keeps
the ethos, but it's obviously a little bit bitter made
in the twenty twenties. But I think the problem is
it's a bit hard to release the movies. Sometimes when
dudes get their arms ripped off by mutant dudes and
blood spurts, it's like this is a very glory movie totally.

(03:56):
And in New Zealand it has an R sixteen rating,
which is deserved. So I think it might just be
the case that, you know, studio remakes a movie that's
from I'm a beloved franchise and kind of gets what
they asked for, yeah, and then doesn't quite know what
to do next. This caston this is excellent. Peter Dinklage
plays Winston Goose, who's the guy that turns into the

(04:19):
Toxic Avenger, a humble janitor who develops superpowers, muscles, and
a beautiful face after the toxic waste incident. Kevin Bacon's
in it, Elijah Woods in it, the fantastic Julia Davis
would be maybe best known for the show ninety Niners.
In it had a hell of a good time. It's
great to sort of celebrate this school of filmmaking ripple

(04:41):
down into the modern era. And again this has been
a really nice one to see in a cinema with
a bunch of other people having a good time. This
is in cinemas now, Second Bank, this one between now
and Thursday, and then go and see the Shankarda Doca.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Thank you so much, Steve. The two films that we
spoke about were the Shanekada doco Life in One Chord
and The Toxic a Adventure.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Avenger, Sorry, Avenger, Toxic Avenger. Sorry. I call it the
Toxic Adventure, which is probably something slightly different. I'm picturing.
I'm picturing cute animals, but it all goes wrong. Okay,
the toxic notice fallen, right?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
No, we must, we must get that right.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
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