The documentary in the early 80s ”Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, “which had a one-week edition in cinemas as a theater event in October, will have its streaming premiere exclusively on Paramount+ As of March 11 in the United States and Canada, the service announced on Tuesday.
The Cameron Crowe-Directed film will debut the following day, March 12, in the UK, Australia, Latin America, France, Italy and Germany.
When the film rolled out on large screens last fall, it was appointed as the first time this topic by Petty (and Crowe) Lore was seen – at least legitimately – by the audience since it first premiered, with a little fanfare at that time, on MTV in February 1983. Originally, around the time for the release of Tom Petty and Heartbreakers “Long after Darl” album, the film was restored from its 16mm source and reinforced by about 20 minutes from previously invisible bonus content, including withdrawals “and a newly filmed interview with Crowe and the late rocker’s daughter , Adria Petty.
“‘Heartbreakers Beach Party’ occupies a special place in my heart,” Crowe said in a statement and announced Paramount+ Streaming business. “Tom Petty and Heartbreakers leaned to the film with a kind of funny music -filled honesty that still feels fresh forty years later. It was also my first experience as a director. Thanks to Adria Petty and The Petty Estate, together with our fellow film maker Danny Bramson, Phil Savenick, Doug Dowdle and Greg Mariotti, we take it back in all their reckless glory. I am particularly happy to add a postscript with the never seen withdrawal films that I always appreciated. The fact that the original film was Janched from MTV after only one broadcast shows that it was, and is still an Outlandic party for fans in the best way. Turn it up !! ”
At the time of the film’s release in theaters in October, both Crowe and Adria Petty talked to Amount About what the very delayed release of the film after more than 40 years thought for them.
Said Crowe Then he really considers the film as his first director’s effort. “I do,” he told Amount. “I had just done printed journalism, and I was really nervous when Danny Bramson said:” Let’s make a video profile. “I was nervous about being a person on the camera because I had always had problems with people who put themselves in and try to give you their version of the person they document or profile. But then I really started having fun doing it, ask him How he wrote ‘The Waiting’ and ‘I need to know’ the front seat of you who asked Tom Petty how he wrote these songs – this is fun. “” Originally, he had only engaged as a writer and interviewer on the project.
“Then we were in RV, on the way to the video scent for” You Got Lucky “… He played this amazing solo version of Elvis Presley’s” His Last Low “and I got to chill. It didn’t make it the early version of ‘Heartbreakers Beach Party ‘, but we have put it in the withdrawals (for the new edition). I was really fascinated by what we got. And he said: “I will play a song for you.” High, “and it had just come out and did well. He told me he had a stereotype against him that grew up in Gainesville, with long blonde hair – that people thought he was a stoner who was a little thick and not So smart, and that he was always misjudged because of his hair and his look. So he had written this news song called ‘I’m stupid.’ And he said: ‘Pick up the camera. Let me make this song right for you.’
“And I am,” I’m not really the director. I’m just the author and interviewer. ‘And he said:’ Get the camera back. Put me right and film me that makes this song. ‘And so I did. And he makes this song “I’m stupid”, just into the camera. And I remember being hit by a thunderbolt: So here it is to be a director. As if they are doing it right to the camera, you are there, and there is no intermediary, no editor, no tape recorder, there is no transcript. It’s just this is the moment and you’re there. He finished the song, we pressed stop on the camera and he said, “Congratulations, you are a director.”
“I never forgot it,” Crowe added, “and I never stopped directing in one way or another since then. So I always think about it as if it was small with that song,” I’m stupid, “forget the protocol , man. Place the camera on the shoulder and slide it. ‘And it’s a credo worth remembering. “
In a separate interview, Adria Petty told Amount“We have this fantastic archivist who has tested film for vinegar syndrome, and she found a bunch of the raw film rolls for” Heartbreakers beach party “, which we did not realize we had in our possession. They were not marked. We took them to Cameron and we were really happy to restore his movie. And then we thought we should put out a record with it. What do we have from this era? Dark ”who came out last fall.
“It is very interesting to see my dad, with this very strange Cameron Crowe movie with the most misleading title ever, to market something like a beach party! You know, it’s so unpleasant. I love that he thought the whole world would understand that reference to “beach blanket bingo” – and like, we are still trying to explain it 30, 40 years later! “She protects the interviews that Crowe did with her father for the film.” It still has a special place because of it. For even to give more than an hour’s long interview to someone and give them consistent access to his home and his life and His band, which never happened again.
Noted Crowe, “Tom was ahead of his time, really. Because when he saw the first average of this, he said: ‘You know, it’s a little too traditional. Let’s just do it as a joint that passed among friends. ‘And he went to Europe with a camera and filmed some extra things himself – including the sequence where they are led into all these different changing rooms after they played, and one of them is an underground tennis court and is just a ridiculous parade of the wrong dressing room. It was seen by Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner before ‘Spinal Tap’ came out, and they put a version of it (the stage of getting lost backstage) in ‘Spinal Tap.’ So Tom really had the vision of a documentary that cut out the intermediary, which is so I always wanted to do the documentaries that I have been lucky enough to do then, in that tradition: Cut out the middle, make it feel like you are right there with them and their humor. “
