Meet Me in the Bathroom

"An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s."

2022 1h 48m EN

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★5.4TMDB · 20

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Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.

“An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s.”

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Cast

Adam Green
Self - The Moldy Peaches
Kimya Dawson
Self - The Moldy Peaches
Karen O
Self - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Julian Casablancas
Self - The Strokes (voice) (archive sound)
Albert Hammond Jr.
Self - The Strokes (voice) (archive sound)
Nick Zinner
Self - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ryan Gentles
Self - Manager, The Strokes
Paul Banks
Self - Interpol

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Dylan Southern
Writers: Lizzie Goodman
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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Released 4 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Andrew Cross shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Adam Green and Kimya Dawson and Karen O carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt16378298 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Only 20 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Dylan Southern directs. Andrew Cross cuts. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
3International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
4Editor Andrew Cross shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Adam Green and Kimya Dawson and Karen O carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s.".
7IMDB entry: tt16378298 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 20 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
9Classified under 16 themes, including "new york city", "punk rock", "interpol", "y2k".

The technical file

Editing: Andrew Cross
Sound: Greg Gettens
Runtime: 108 min · 1h 48m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $315,239
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022)

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Patrick Martin Jr.2022-12-16
★ 8/10
Another good doc about a place in time (Y2K/9-11) and the people who created art our to pain and desire. Lots of good archival footage and some driving interviews that make you want to go out and start a band too. Best line I’ve ever heard about how to relate tp parents disappointment about wanting to be a musician: “my parents were immigrants and you tell them you want to be in a band, I may as well have told them thanks for all that but I wanna go put on some clown shoes”. Simply awesome.
CinemaSerf2024-01-13
★ 6/10
Not that it's exactly comparable, but I grew up very much amidst a folk music scene with loads of extremely mediocre working-class musicians - ballad singers, guitarists, fiddlers etc., who all thought they would go on to some sort of musical greatness. Watching this, it's good to know that those ridiculous pipe dreams were not just confined to Glasgow in the 1970s. Spool on to the early naughties and we are presented with a collection of "musicians" living in Yew York City with aspirations that in the vast majority of cases way outstripped their talents. The one exceptions is probably Julian Casablancas, who managed with "The Strokes" to get his head above the parapet of bland noisemaking, and here the documentary is quite potent at illustrating that the stresses of achieving and building on success are actually just as tough as those involved in getting noticed in the first place. On a more generic level, it does point out how tough this industry is, how hard people work to achieve little better than a subsistence existence and at just how transitory and fickle it all can be, but I did tire a little of the also-rans who whined on about sexploitation and objectification as if they'd had been living under a rock for most of their lives. They dreamt of success and acknowledgement in an industry that was/is riddled with sexualisation and somehow it came as a shock to them - pissed and stoned as they invariably were. Real talent is the best fast-track to initiate meaningful and lasting change. It's an interesting fly-on-the-wall style of production with loads of archive, busily edited to leave us with an authentic-looking view on the lives of these people, but I felt most of them really had no idea what they were doing and the fact that 9/11 occurred midway through the chronology of the narrative seemed merely designed to attempt to bedrock this otherwise flighty and shallow assessment of a music industry that took me back to those nights in the pub, with the folk singers who sounded great after eight pints, but who had no shelf-life beyond that!