Anonymous Club

Name: Anonymous Club
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: July 15, 2022
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Courtney Barnett

2022

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: July 15, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Courtney Barnett

Summary: Shot on vivid 16mm film over a three-year period, Anonymous Club chronicles notoriously shy, Melbourne-based musician Courtney Barnett’s ups and downs on the world tour for her album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Featuring Barnett’s unguarded narration from her audio diary, recorded on a dictaphone provided by filmmaker Danny Cohen, the filmShot on vivid 16mm film over a three-year period, Anonymous Club chronicles notoriously shy, Melbourne-based musician Courtney Barnett’s ups and downs on the world tour for her album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Featuring Barnett’s unguarded narration from her audio diary, recorded on a dictaphone provided by filmmaker Danny Cohen, the film delivers frank and unprecedented insight into Barnett’s creative process, the sacrifices and inner conflicts set in motion by fame, and the sometimes dark backdrop to her whimsical, relatably poetic compositions. [Oscilloscope]… Expand

Director: Danny Cohen

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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IndieWire Susannah Gruder

Jul 14, 2022

Anonymous Club is undoubtedly a film that Barnett fans will adore — but if you’re not familiar with her music, or perhaps not that into it, you may emerge a fan by the end. Or at least a fan of Cohen, who, through his sensitive lens, reminds us that the music of the best singer-songwriters is inspired by their own feelings — of joy, or sorrow, love or solitude — and can transcend the boundaries between the crowd and the person singing it. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Apr 13, 2022

Anonymous Club’s power is in its meditative nature, reflecting on the intersection of celebrity and creativity. Read full review

NME Jared Richards

Mar 22, 2022

As a meditation on depression, anxiety and touring, Anonymous Club isn’t just valuable viewing for Barnett’s die-hard fans, though they will no doubt cherish this film which captures the artist at her most open, outside of her music. For the first time, we’re invited into the club. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jul 14, 2022

Barnett muses on the contradiction of how, in one performance, she might be “vivid and alive” and in the next “distant,” even though she’s going through the same motions with each show. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jul 27, 2022

The low-key music documentary “Anonymous Club” — ostensibly a portrait of Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett — kind of feels like a movie about someone who doesn’t really want to be in a movie. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Dec 19, 2022

While the film is not particularly groundbreaking in its approach to the music documentary, it’s unusually candid and open in what it reveals about the cost of the creative process. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 14, 2022

Anonymous Club isn’t an invitation. Don’t know the lyrics? Kind of hard to make them out. Underwhelmed by this guitar snippet or that one? Well, she does like the label “slacker garage rock.” Leave this one to the fans. Read full review

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