Bittersweet Motel (2000)

Director:

Todd Phillips

Release Date:

5 July 2001 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Bittersweet Motel is a documentary about the popular rock band Phish. The film focuses on Phish's music, with little emphasis on their die-hard fan base.

Plot Keywords:

Phish | Rock Band | Trey Anastasio | Rock Music | Rocker

Cast

Trey Anastasio	...	Himself
Jon Fishman	...	Himself
Mike Gordon	...	Himself
Page McConnell	...	Himself

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:o.Al.

Company:

Aviva Entertainment

Quotes:

Trey Anastasio: I think as long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music. But I take it seriously because it gets me off. So the more I take it seriously, you know, practicing and stuff like that, the more I get off.

Movie Connections:

References Pumping Iron (1977)

I must watch it again and again.

Well if you love Phish you really should get this DVD, but you knew that! It has plenty of full length extras on it (PYITE, BBFCFM) and is quite hilarious at times. The complaints that I hear about this movie are sound, however. I didn't like the interviews with the fans, and the songs ARE clipped for time. I don't know why they bothered clipping the songs to make this movie run a lean 84 minutes, in most cases they should have just let them play and made the movie 2+ hours. Everybody is going to have a list of songs that they wish had been included, so I'm not going to complain about certain songs that I believe should definitely be in any Phish movie but were left out. I certainly love this movie and will watch it a hundred times if this first week is any indication of things to come.

This thing is worth buying for the killer NYE and Great Went footage alone.