While a bit too up-close-and-personal for the uninitiated, Flaming Lips fans will greet Bradley Beesley's fitful portrait of this great American band like manna from heaven. Named for an Oklahoma City neighborhood football team formed in 1972 by Flaming Lips front-man Wayne Coyne and his four brothers, this is the kind of intimate, deeply affectionate rockumentary that only a close friend of the band could make. Beesley, the man behind many of the band's home movies and early music videos, has been chronicling the Lips' fascinating evolution since befriending Coyne in 1991, when the band was just emerging from their acid-damaged, Butthole Surfers-influenced chrysalis...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins