Vinyl (2000 film)
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Vinyl is a 2000
documentary film
by Toronto filmmaker/record collector
Alan Zweig
. In the film, Zweig seeks not to talk to people who collect vinyl records to discuss music, but rather to discuss what drives someone to collect records in the first place. Zweig spends a large portion of the film in stylized self-filmed "confessions", where he expounds on his life in regards to record collecting, feeling it has prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of a family.
In addition to celebrities like Canadian director/actor Don McKellar
and American Splendor
creator Harvey Pekar
, Zweig speaks to a variety of record collectors, including a car wash employee who claims to own over one million records and also claims to have memorized the track listing of every K-Tel
collection he owns, a government employee who refuses to organize his collection because he doesn't want people to come over, and a man who threw out his large record collection rather than sell or give it away because he didn't want anyone else to own it.
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
by Toronto filmmaker/record collector
Record collecting
Record collecting is the hobby of collecting music. Although the main focus is on vinyl records, all formats of recorded music are collected.-History:Record collecting has been around probably nearly as long as recorded sound...
Alan Zweig
Alan Zweig
Alan Zweig is a Toronto documentary filmmaker known for often using film to explore his own life.In his 2000 film Vinyl, Zweig explores what drives people to become record collectors...
. In the film, Zweig seeks not to talk to people who collect vinyl records to discuss music, but rather to discuss what drives someone to collect records in the first place. Zweig spends a large portion of the film in stylized self-filmed "confessions", where he expounds on his life in regards to record collecting, feeling it has prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of a family.
In addition to celebrities like Canadian director/actor Don McKellar
Don McKellar
-Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
and American Splendor
American Splendor
American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by the late Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the most recent in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals...
creator Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...
, Zweig speaks to a variety of record collectors, including a car wash employee who claims to own over one million records and also claims to have memorized the track listing of every K-Tel
K-tel
K-tel International is an "As-Seen-On-TV" company, which is most noted for its compilation music albums, such as "The Super Hits" series, "The Dynamic Hits" series and "The Number One Hits" series...
collection he owns, a government employee who refuses to organize his collection because he doesn't want people to come over, and a man who threw out his large record collection rather than sell or give it away because he didn't want anyone else to own it.