"Last Days Here" - The Fall and Rise of Bobby Liebling - uncut teaser/trailer

The rare uncut teaser/trailer from the award winning 9.14 Pictures documentary Last Days Here, when it was still in production under the working title "Last Rites - The Fall and Rise of Bobby Liebling".

Synopsis:

Last Days Here follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of the American heavy metal band Pentagram. In the documentary, Liebling is in his 50s, lives in his parents' basement, and ingests illegal drugs. When Pentagram's music is rediscovered by the heavy metal underground scene, Liebling begins to recover from his lifestyle. His friend and manager Sean "Pellet" Pelletier attempts to help overcome his drug addiction and escape his old life.

Production:

Don Argott and Demian Fenton directed Last Days Here. Fenton first became familiar with Bobby Liebling when he listened to cassette tapes that were 1970s recordings of Liebling's heavy metal band Pentagram. Fenton also listened to the 2001 compilation First Daze Here and enjoyed the early Pentagram material. He heard rumors about Liebling, including living in his parents' basement and ingesting illegal drugs. When Fenton and Argott began filming Liebling, they were not sure if a documentary could result. Fenton said, "It really seemed like he was going to smoke himself to death in his parent's basement, something we weren't interested in documenting." When Liebling attempted to recover from his lifestyle, the directors saw potential as a documentary.

The directors filmed hundreds of hours of footage over three years with very little budgeting. Fenton said about addressing the swift changes in Liebling's life, "Many times we had to finesse the rapid shifts in Bobby's life so the viewer wouldn't be left confused." He said that Liebling had shown multiple sides of himself, which the directors tried to balance for their documentary.

Release:

Last Days Here had its world premiere at the film festival South by Southwest on March 14, 2011. In the following month, Sundance Selects acquired the rights to distribute Last Days Here in North America. It will distribute the documentary in theaters and on its video on demand platform.

Stephen Saito of Independent Film Channel said Liebling's story was typical of most rock star stories and that his story would normally not be interesting to mainstream viewers since the band Pentagram never had a mass audience. Saito said, "Yet Fenton... and Argott spent six years waiting for the story to reveal itself and that patience has been rewarded with a tale that's sad, sometimes frustrating and ultimately triumphant." The critic applauded Fenton and Argott's use of supporting characters to share stories about Liebling. Saito noted, "Last Days Here isn't weighed down by history, or much of anything for that matter as it uses a traditionally straightforward, slightly shaggy narrative to tell of Liebling's rise and fall."

Eric Kohn of indieWire wrote that the story felt incomplete: "Almost exclusively set in the present day, Liebling's struggles lack a cogent origin story or enough outside voices to contextualize the talent that the onscreen fans take for granted." Kohn described the documentary's first half hour as having "a frighteningly visceral power" depicting Liebling's rock star lifestyle and thought the momentum faltered afterward. Kohn said, "The stakes never go too high," and that Liebling made the rock stars in the similar documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil look even better. The critic concluded, "Culminating with his well-received performance at New York's Webster Hall, 'Last Days Here' implies that the rocker has finally figured out what to do with himself, a result that leaves much to be desired once the credits roll."

Credits:

Director: Don Argott, Demian Fenton
Producer: Sheena M. Joyce
Cinematographer: Don Argott, Demian Fenton
Editor: Demian Fenton

Awards:

2011 Independent Film Festival - Boston
Best Documentary

2011 IDFA Play - Amsterdam
Best Music Documentary

Handing out the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam's first ever music documentary prize, the Play jury praised Last Days Here for "its quality of surprise, its passion and compassion, and its raw and open depiction of a committed fan and the artist he adores."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Trailer (promotion)
• PENTAGRAM (band)
• Last Rites
• Bobby Liebling
• 9.14 Pictures
• Demian Fenton
• Don Argott
• Sheena M. Joyce
• Heavy Metal Music
• Geof O'Keefe
• Greg Mayne
• Vincent McAllister
• Randy Palmer
• Walk In the Blue Light
• Forever My Queen

[peppermintmmeringue]

Will the film be released to the public in 2012?

[pentagramarchives]

@peppermintmmeringue

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[hambone9119]

I am 24, been into Pentagram since i picked up the fucking AWESOME Show Em How cd back in 2004 when i was 16, and i always wondered why they never followed up, i guess i Know know why, But its great that last rites is out Great fkn album, and Bobby has his shit together much respect.

[SMDoktorPepper]

Its Anvil..just very very depressing.

[TheStickism]

pain is indeed a way to enlightenment

[TheHauntedGore]

Bobby is a legend... Can't wait to see this awesome movie.

[risingfr]

thanks.

[DoomMetalSludge]

This was very hard for me to watch, even just as a fan. This is a very intense display of the hardships of drug addiction. I look forward very much to watching this film but I know its going to be quite the challenge. Its good to see Bobby has put this awful past behind him.

[ferox965]

bobby is a friend of mine...this is hard to watch