Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out

Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out consists primarily of home movie footage shot by the band's drummer, Stewart Copeland, throughout their short but influential career. This compilation of that footage includes images of the group in the studio, on tour, and performing in venues of various ...more

A documentary is only as interesting as the footage it contains. Sadly, Everyone Stares: The Police Inside And Out fails to entertain or enlighten despite the ever-commercial subject matter of a rock and roll band due to this problem. The events captured here consist of goofing around between gigs and travelogue footage, interspersed with the occasional snippet of gig footage (viewers are never treated to a full song). Director/editor/band member Stewart Copeland tries to impose a narrative on ...more

from StewartCopeland.com:
It took some time for Stewart to choose between all the material recorded; the final result is more than a simple music documentary about The Police, and that's why it got the attention of the Sundance Movie Festival, where it will be premiered on January 22nd. The 'actors' are not acting as you can imagine, the movie is 'taken from a real story'; the viewers can now witness the rise of an unknown band called The Police, from travelling on vans on the roads of the States, sleeping in small motel rooms, to luxury hotels and private planes, crossing the hard work in the middle and becoming one of the most succesful rock bands ever existed; the script includes the first time the band meets hysteria after a UK concert, the first meeting with A&M Records people in New York City as well as the first press conference in Los Angeles, recording sessions in Holland and Montserrat, backstage and on stage at the European festivals promoting 'Reggatta De Blanc' and 'Zenyatta Mondatta' as well as funny sketches on the road and in tv studios.

It's all there: as a viewer you are there as well as almost everything that can be seen comes from Stewart personal look at what was going on in front of the band: the viewer is Stewart...you ARE Stewart while watching the movie! The soundtrack is made of live clips as well as studio tracks; some of the 'Derangements' (as Stewart calls them) were also included for the joy of Police fans into collecting and trying to have something out of the usual and well known tracks that made the history of the band; some of the Police tracks have been 'deranged' by the drummer himself, giving them a new life and shape; a bass line from 'Can't Stand Losing You' meets the vocal from another part of the song and the final result is surprising like a vocal line from 'Don't Stand So Close To Me 86' mixed with the original backtrack recorded in 1980 for the Zenyatta sessions. A DVD is on his way to be released from Universal and will see the light in the coming months, so that everybody .... can be Stewart Copeland once in a lifetime!

Giovanni Pollastri