UPDATE: Green DaysHeart Like a Hand Grenadewill get a theatrical release beginning October 15th before heading to Vimeo On Demand October 16th. A full list of participating theaters are available on the films official site.
Green Daywill finally releaseHeart Like a Hand Grenade,the lost documentary chronicling the making of their Bush-era protest album/rock opera,American Idiot,with awide release scheduledfor October 10th, DIYreports.
Shot by John Roecker over a period of nine months, the film marks the first time Green Day allowed cameras into the studio. WhileAmerican Idiotwas a critical and commercialsuccess andspawneda Broadway musical Heart Like a Hand Grenade never saw release. It has acquired mythicstatus among Green Day fans, however, and was screened once, in Hollywood in 2009, for 400 fans, per theLos Angeles Times.
In a statement on Green Days website, Roecker a punk stalwart known for his stop-motion animation film, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! about the Manson murders detailed his longstanding relationship with the band and theorigins of the documentary. Filmed around the same time as the release of MetallicasSome Kind of Monster, Roecker recalled Armstrong worrying that the film would falter without the same kind of intense, intra-band drama but the filmmaker wasnt phased.
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It shows a band on top of their game creating incredible music, Roecker said. It is a film that inspires. It is also a very small film. All it took was a box of tapes and one camera. Going back to the D.I.Y. ethic that I was raised with. It was also a risk for the band because this album was either going to take them to a higher level or sink them. Either way I was going to document it.
Along with the footage of the American Idiot sessions, Heart Like a Hand Grenadeincludes rare footage of Green Day performing the album in full at a small theater after recording had wrapped. Shot before the omnipresence of camera phones, Roeckers footage is reportedly the only video of thatshow.
This movie is like a fly-on-the-wall art house piece, Roecker said. It is the first time Green Day allowed someone into the studio to film them This was 11years ago and the film you are about to see has never been seen. It became a lost film, an urban legend in some ways. Some fans thought it was not real that it was some sort of prank the band and I created. And finally the little film that could is being released.
Despite neither releasing new music, nor hitting the road this year,2015 has been bigfor Green Day,who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein April. The band has also been working on the follow up to their 2012 trioofalbums, with Armstrong telling Rolling Stone in the spring he had about five tracks finished.
Im going totake it really slow, he said. Im just going tomake sure every moment is inspired and that we have something thats really special to us. And right now with the songs that we have, its going in the right direction.
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