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I know you’ve got stuff that’s never been seen. I know you’ve got footage, I just don’t know whether they’ll be that comfortable with it. The thing is, the band has this thing about themselves, they don’t really want to look back, they want to look forward.
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Then Phil came over at the end, slightly sheepishly - “Maybe it’s time to do our film. We screened the film for them and they loved it. One of the other producers was like, “I’ll invite my friend Paul so it’s not weird, so it’s not like an audition or something.” And of course his friend is Paul Thomas Anderson, so I was getting ten times more freaked out. I was desperately trying to connect it to the projector and nothing was working and the band was walking in. I didn’t know what the hell was going on. Chris was looking over my shoulder and he goes, “What’s this?” And one of the financers happened to come to the thing and he said, “Oh, we’ll put it on the screen for you.” So the next night, they put it on the screen. On my downtime I was still editing on Supersonic. We’re doing a livestream, you can direct that.” Phil said, “Do you want to come out to L.A.? We’ve got a gig on. But Phil rang me and I was in the middle of trying to finish up the last few bits of Supersonic. I knew we’d keep on filming stuff, but I thought the documentary not going to happen. I don’t really want a film about us to be made, to be honest.” I was a little bit crestfallen. I remember having a chat with Chris at one point, and I was like, “We’re gonna make the film eventually, right?” And he was like, “If I’m being honest, I just think we can’t have a film like this made about us until we’re sitting in rocking chairs on the porch somewhere. And every year, or maybe every couple years, I asked the guys, and they were like, “No, no, no.” I thought it was the right time pretty much about a year after I met them. You’ve been filming the members of Coldplay for over 20 years, how did you decide that it was finally the right time to put it all together in a documentary? Vulture spoke with the director about what the two groups have in common and why A Head Full of Dreams almost didn’t happen. Whitecross’s two movies work together as companion pieces about the biggest English rock bands of the past 25 years. The members of Coldplay met each other a month later. Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher rumbled on for another decade, but those shows were the pinnacle of their success. That documentary ends with the Manchester band’s two shows at Knebworth Park in August of 1996, which combined sold over a quarter-million tickets. Whitecross has been filming the group for over 20 years now, from their first club gigs to their most recent tour, as well as capturing their recording process and directing several music videos.Ī Head Full of Dreams comes after Whitecross’s fantastic 2016 film, Oasis: Supersonic.
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Coldplay has sold over 77 million albums and still play stadiums around the world. Whitecross has since made films including the political documentaries The Road to Guantanamo and The Shock Doctrine. Whitecross came to school wanting to be a filmmaker, they wanted to be in a band. He met the group’s eventual four members shortly after they all arrived as first-year students at University College London. Whitecross had lots of material to draw from for A Head Full of Dreams, which was released through Amazon Prime last Friday. There’s footage of Martin laying on the stage at soundcheck, distraught over the New York Times’ 2005 lashing that called them “the most insufferable band of the decade.” But there’s also plenty of footage of their boundless ambition and dogged determination, even back when Martin sported braces and a mop of curly hair. A Head Full of Dreams (which shares its name with the group’s 2016 album) doesn’t dispel this notion. Over their extraordinarily successful career, Coldplay in general and Martin in particular have gotten the reputation for being … sensitive. Martin replies he hasn’t and isn’t going to, because he’d probably just tell Whitecross to cut out all the parts with him in it. Whitecross asks Martin if he’s watched the edit of the film that he sent over. At the start of the new documentary Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams, director Mat Whitecross plays a recording of a telephone conversation between him and the band’s front person, Chris Martin.