Spotlight: "White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights"

The Trylon is one of only a few cinemas in the country to screen this White Stripes documentary before its release in the band's box set coming in March.

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
February 25, 2010 at 9:10PM
Jack White in "The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights"
Jack White in "The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights" (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

WHITE STRIPES: UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS

With help from the Sound Unseen film-and-music festival, the Trylon is one of only a few cinemas in the country to screen this White Stripes documentary before its release in the band's box set coming in March. Director Emmett Malloy followed Jack and Meg White on a tour across Canada in celebration of their 10th anniversary. The film shows the typical rock venues, but more special are the free daytime performances the duo played everywhere from a bus to a boat to a bowling alley. The interviews are insightful, although you can almost count on one hand how many words Meg says in the entire film -- she's so quiet that subtitles are used when she speaks. And the footage -- both on and off stage -- is great. "Lights" concludes that the Stripes have stayed pretty much the same in their 10 years together -- proof that change isn't always a good thing. (6, 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Wed., Trylon Microcinema, 3258 Minnehaha Av. S., Mpls. $8 at www.take-up.org or www.soundunseen.com).

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