#A head full of dreams tour songs movie#

Whitecross was there in 1998, when a starry-eyed Martin looked into the camera and proclaimed that вЂњThe ColdplayвЂќ would be one of worldвЂ™s biggest acts in four yearsвЂ™ time, and he was there in 2002, when the band headlined Glastonbury. He was there when they were palling around the dorms, he was there at the bandвЂ™s first gig, and he was there when the band got signed to Parlophone. Whitecross (who also made вЂњOasis: SupersonicвЂќ) was there at University College London in 1996 when Chris Martin met Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, and Will Champion, and he has the embarrassing amateur video to prove it.

#A head full of dreams tour songs movie#

Like вЂњMinding the Gap,вЂќ вЂњShirkers,вЂќ and a number of the yearвЂ™s other standout documentaries, вЂњA Head Full of DreamsвЂќ is a movie that was decades in the making -В a personal story told via priceless home video footage.

Instrumental to the filmвЂ™s success is the fact that Whitecross has known the band since before they were a band. When this critic recently celebrated a wave of вЂњnicecoreвЂќ filmmaking, Coldplay werenвЂ™t the ambassadors he had in mind. Who wants to pay $15 to watch someone else meet BeyoncГ©? For diehard fans, watching this was always going to hurt like heaven, but itвЂ™s definitely a riskier proposition for the rest of us. It isnвЂ™t.ДЄt a time when the world feels like itвЂ™s resting on the edge of a knife, thereвЂ™s precious little patience for a movie about handsome nerds who meet in college, get rich and famous in their early 20s, and then steadily continue to get richer and more famous from there. In other words, this feature-length victory lap should be utterly insufferable from start to finish. Mat WhitecrossвЂ™ вЂњColdplay: A Head Full of DreamsвЂќ is more than just a look inside the third-highest grossing concert tour in history, or an intimate portrait of one of the 21st centuryвЂ™s most successful rock bands itвЂ™s also an infectiously upbeat biography of four blessed friends (five, if you count their manager six if you count Whitecross himself),В who conquered the world on the strength of their belief in themselves and each other. HereвЂ™s a Coldplay documentary so charming and sincere that it will make you feel bad about mocking the bandвЂ™s music for the last 16 years (aside from intermittent appreciation for what Brian Eno got out of them on вЂњViva La Vida,вЂќ of course).