Adventures of Power
Feature Film
On DVD/VOD January 25, 2011. Please join email list for live screening and charity auction info. Thanks! I won't spam you, but I will send you some songs from the soundtrack!
"This Spinal Tap-caliber cult item maintains a perfect balance. Writer-director Ari Gold (real name) stars as Power, a gangling spaz whose compulsive air-drumming to classic rock makes him village idiot of a New Mexico copper town beset by labor strife. Fired from the mine and estranged from his union-leader father (Michael McKean), he sets out to conquer big-league air-drumming in New Jersey. Bizarrely imaginative sight gags and laugh lines are timed like Neil Peart solo, but the film also inexplicably succeeds as a melodrama and a heartfelt pro-labor statement. The wonderful cast includes the sublime Jane Lynch (Best in Show) and a raft of people we should have heard of already."
- The Chicago Reader
Adventures of Power premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the top Audience Awards at the Vail and Memphis Film Festivals, and the Grand Jury Prize at the both the TriMedia Colorado Film Festival and the San Antonio Film Festivals, Best Comedy at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, and was ranked the best US comedy by audiences at the Karlovy-Vary International Film Festival. Theatrical release: Variance Films (join email list for info).
Check out Official Adventures of Power site!
Reviews
"An enthusiastic Drums Up... Totally awesome." - L.A. Times
"Crazy, hilarious, bizarre, insane... And all in the best ways possible." - Ain't it Cool News
"A huggable bit of indie fearlessness." - TimeOut New York
"Platinum-level." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Hilarious. Universally entertaining." - UGO.com
"The best rock movie in many a year." - Neil Peart
"Rowdy response to 'Power's' midnight unspooling at Sundance establishes the pic's cult-movie cred. Gold's a gifted comedian." - Variety
"Audience Award winning film 'Adventures of Power' took the Vail Film Festival by storm." - Real Vail Magazine
"Optimism is making a comeback, but perhaps not as big a comeback as air-drumming after audiences see Adventures of Power... Perhaps the most hilarious opening to an indie comedy ever... Without apologies or irony, this is the kind of earnest go-for-your-dream movie that might have been made in the 1980s like Flashdance or Karate Kid. And thats what works so well about Adventures of Power, it is simultaneously hilarious and heartfelt and better yet, it all feels real. This film will single-handedly bring newfound respect for the art of air-drumming and dreamers everywhere." - Chris Gore, ChinaShop Magazine
"ADVENTURES OF POWER gets it right... Gold's vision is fully realized in a movie that blends place and theme, and a wicked ass soundtrack, wonderfully." - Christopher Stipp, Quick Stop Entertainment
Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sundance Film Festival
GRAND PRIZE - San Antonio Film Festival
GRAND PRIZE - Trimedia Colorado Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Karlovy-Vary Film Festival
WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD Vail Film Festival
WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD Indie Mephis Festival
WINNER - BEST COMEDY Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
Cast
Michael McKean, Adrian Grenier, Jane Lynch, Shoshannah Stern, Steven Williams, Chi Ling Chiu, and Ari Gold.
Production
Read about the making of the movie on Ari's blog, Power the Power.
