Watch Movie “Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage” 2010

An in-depth look at the Canadian rock band Rush, chronicling the band’s musical evolution from their progressive rock sound of the ’70s to their current heavy rock style.

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Directors Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen embark on a comprehensive exploration of this extraordinary power trio, from their early days in Toronto, through each of their landmark albums, to the present day. Featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with notables such as Jack Black, Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Gene Simmons, this film explores the forty-year career and phenomenon behind what could be the world’s biggest cult band. Winner of the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award.

A portrait of the legendary Canadian rock band Rush from their early days in Toronto, through each of their landmark albums, to the present day.

Rush fans are the most obvious intended audience for the loving documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage. After all, the band has been around long enough for the battle lines to be clearly drawn, and the documentary by Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen makes no bones about the fact that Rush has never been critically accepted or particularly hip. In the cruel world of heavy metal you’re either with Rush or against them, and though the film kicks off with some talking head interviews with more than a dozen notable musicians– Billy Corgan, Gene Simmons, even Jack Black– confessing their love for the band, you can tell there’s a little shame attached.

But dammit, if liking Rush is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Going into the film knowing nothing about the band beyond that one scene in I Love You Man, I didn’t come out instantly dying to track down their filmography and memorize Neil Peart’s drum solos, but I was utterly charmed all the same. The band’s trajectory from high school wannabes to “overnight sensations” several years later is a standard issue rock biography, but the energy with which Peart, Geedy Lee and Alex Lifeson still approach their music and their careers is infectious. Early promotional photos of the band feature them in ridiculous outfits and goofy poses, and though, sure, some of the good vibes and brotherhood today could have been faked for the camera, it’s clear these guys aren’t a rock band who ever threw each other out of hotel windows, or even went to rehab. They’re the world’s most straight and narrow rock stars, and you’ve got to love them for it.

The early sections of the film suffer most for their fannishness, skipping over key musical biography elements like influences and how they even named the band, and never really making a case for the band’s well-documented talents. But Dunn and McFadyen make up for it with revealing interviews with Lifeson and Lee’s parents– all European refugees to Canada after World War II– and tons and tons of archival photos and video. The film zips along nicely as the band finds success on the radio and releases their first album, goes on tour with Kiss (those are some great backstage photos), and basically eschews the standard rock star lifestyle.