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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

  • Thursday, Jul 2

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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Q&A with director Joe Berlinger followed by a reception in Take 3

2004. 84 m. Joe Berlinger/Bruce Sinofsky. Independent. US. English. Rated NR.

Presented on director Joe Berlinger’s personal 35mm print.

After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band, the three remaining members of Metallica realize that they need an intervention. In this revealing documentary, which is often cited as one of the greatest music films ever made, directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky follow the eponymous band over a productive and tumultuous three-year period as they search for a new bass player, fight bitterly among themselves, and seek the counsel of a group therapist during the recording process for their album St. Anger.

After the Q&A, please join us upstairs to continue the conversation at a reception in the Take 3 Wine Bar & Café.

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"One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made."
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"It's a measure of the film's brilliance that it strips away the trappings of superstardom and allows audiences to see these men as flawed human beings first, musicians second, and rock gods a distant third."
Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club

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Q&A with director Joe Berlinger

Q&A with director Joe Berlinger

Thursday, Jul. 2 2026, 7:00

  • Academy Award and eight-time Emmy nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger is one of the leading nonfiction filmmakers of his generation and a pioneer in the genre of true crime documentaries. He has directed and produced landmark films such as: Brother’s Keeper, a Sundance and DGA Award-winner that broke new ground with its narrative storytelling techniques, Under African Skies, an Emmy-winning A&E Indie film about Paul Simon’s controversial recording of the seminal Graceland album during South Africa’s Apartheid regime, and Some Kind of Monster, an intimate portrait of Metallica that redefined the rockumentary genre and won the Independent Spirit Award. His Paradise Lost Trilogy, an HBO feature documentary series that led to the 2011 release of the wrongfully convicted West Memphis 3 after 18 and a half years on Arkansas’ death row, earned Berlinger multiple Emmy and Peabody awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination.

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