Blur to release documentary in January

The trailer for the upcoming Blur documentary No Distance Left To Run has accidentally premiered on the Times Online website. It's been taken off since then, but you can still watch it on YouTube [video removed]. The official premiere will be this weekend on blur.co.uk and Times Online.

The documentary film, produced by Pulse Films, is expected to hit UK cinemas in January 2010. No word has been given yet about the international release, but it is pretty certain that the documentary will be released on DVD/Blu-ray afterwards.

The production company Pulse Films also worked on the Blur reunion promo clip in late 2008. After that, they filmed many of the last summer's reunion gigs and asked fans to donate to the "archive project" detailing the career of the band.


Update added November 29, 2009 from blur.co.uk:

No Distance Left To Run opens in cinemas worldwide on January 19th 2010

A feature length documentary film telling the story of blur is due for cinema release on January 19th. “No Distance Left to Run” is directed by 32 (Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace) and is a Pulse Films production.

Filmed throughout the band’s 2009 rehearsals and acclaimed summer tour, No Distance Left To Run finds all four members of blur together for the first time in nine years. With previously unseen archive material alongside new interviews and reportage, the film recounts the highs and lows of a very British band from the late 80’s to their headline return at Glastonbury and Hyde Park. The result is a musing on Englishness and identity and a portrait of friendship and resolution.


Update added December 21, 2009:

Screening details

• No Distance Left To Run (now promoted as No Distance Left To Run - A Film About Blur) will premiere at London's Leicester Square Odeon on 14th January 2010. Blur are expected to appear at the screening, reports Odeon.
• All cinemas showing No Distance Left To Run can be viewed on
  Arts Alliance Media site. The film is getting an international release in France, Germany, Ireland and Spain with more countries to be announced shortly.
• Nstar reports on forums.blur.co.uk that the film will be shown in Denmark.
• According to Amazon.co.uk and HMV.com, the DVD of the film will be released on 1st February 2010.
   

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