Morphine: Journey of Dreams

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    Morphine: Journey of Dreams - Feature + Extras

    Contains the full 93 minute film PLUS 40 minutes of bonus features!
    Bonus Features Include:
    - Dana Colley Journals
    - Dana Colley Interviews
    - Jerome Deupree Interview
    - Billy Conway Interviews
    - Henry Rollins Interviews
    - Steve Berlin Interviews
    - Joe Strummer Interview
    - Mark Sandman's Photographs
    - 'Morphine: Journey of Dreams' World Premiere Q&A from the 2014 Austin Film Festival

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    Morphine: Journey of Dreams

    The band Morphine blazed like a comet across the global music scene in the 1990s with its innovative "Low Rock" sound. Fronted by two-string bassist/vocalist/songwriter Mark Sandman, the trio rose from local Boston clubs to indie and major label record deals, international touring, and wide critical acclaim until their tragic and untimely demise in 1999. In "Morphine: Journey of Dreams," the group's surviving members and associates tell their story intercut with passages from saxophonist Dana Colley's vivid tour journals. Rare live performances from throughout their career woven into the story display why their unique and mesmeric sound continues to resonate with music lovers today. This artfully delivered documentary doesn't just get behind but rather inside the music and the soul of the group to honor Morphine's notable artistic achievements and the creative bond the musicians shared.

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    Contains 40 minutes of bonus features! Includes:
    - Dana Colley Journals (French Tour, Phone Call, Hotel Room, Immigration Sax Tones)
    - Dana Colley Interviews (Nel Nome Del Rock [The Day After], He Belonged to the World, Double Sax)
    - Jerome Deupree Interview (Recording the Cure for Pain Album)
    - Billy Conway Interviews (Music Archives, Making of a Band)
    - Henry Rollins Interviews (Morphine Live, Sandman Visits, On Morphine)
    - Steve Berlin Interviews (Mark's Loft, Sax Space, The News)
    - Joe Strummer Interview (The Whole Joe)
    - Mark Sandman's Photographs
    - 'Morphine: Journey of Dreams' World Premiere Q&A from the 2014 Austin Film Festival

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The Boston-born Low Rock band Morphine blazed like a comet across the international music scene in the 1990s, rising from local small clubs to indie and major label record deals, high and wide critical acclaim, and packed shows until the band's untimely demise. The trio's unique and mesmeric sound continues to resonate with its fans and music lovers as the group ascends to legendary if not iconic status. The documentary is the definitive, in-depth tale of this unique musical act's compelling career and life together and their resonant musical creativity. The film doesn't just get behind the music but inside the band as its story is primarily told by the trio's surviving members, saxophonist Dana Colley and drummers Billy Conway and Jerome Dupree plus the close-knit familial coterie that worked with them as well as Sandman's girlfriend Sabine Hrechdakian. It's punctuated by incisive commentary and observations from such friends and admirers of the group as Henry Rollins, Joe Strummer and Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. A wealth of live performance footage gathered from across Morphine's career recalls and amplifies the band's innovative yet at the same time classic, timeless and beautifully bottom-heavy sound, as Rolling Stone praised it. Viewers ride and fly along with the hard- touring band's road experiences, vibrantly brought to life as Colley reads from his tour diaries at key points in the film as well as through his accompanying Polaroid pictures and Super 8 films. Morphine: Journey of Dreams is not just a tale of music business struggle, triumph and tragedy, but also a love story - among its members and team as well as Sandman and Hrechdakian - as well as an adventure, drama, travelogue, and something of a roller coaster ride. Plus, when all is told, an evocative and loving tribute to a rock band that was like no other.

  • The best music documentaries simultaneously humanize and immortalize their subjects... the viewer should walk away with a deeper understanding, appreciation and emotional involvement with the artist. Shuman's doc succeeds on all levels.

    — Nathan Carson, Willamette Week