Flipside

In Theaters Fri May 31

1 hr. 35 min.

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When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years. In the process, Wilcha captures This American Life icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative rebirth, discovers the origin story of David Bowie's ode to a local New Jersey cable television hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and TV writer David Milch. This disparate collection of stories coheres into something strange and expansive--a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

A movie that first felt a bit too rambling and shambolic for my tastes, but then I realized I think that’s the point.

Sep 14, 2023

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Robert Daniels

indieWire

Though it’d be easy for Wilcha’s journey to play like a hodgepodge of discarded parts, “Flipside,” a film produced by Judd Apatow, is like a perfect, wondrous B-side collection

Rated: A-

Sep 14, 2023

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Steve Pond

TheWrap

The film moved me not because it’s about the music, but because it’s about the clutter.

Sep 13, 2023

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Strikes one of those wonderful paradoxes, being simultaneously about holding on and letting go.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 26, 2023

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

What may seem like a wishy-washy exercise in regret & unfinished narratives, the joke is on those who so want to make something viable for our legacy that the documentary could be starring any of us. Fascinating and yet kind of inspiring.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 25, 2023

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Jason Gorber

POV Magazine

Flipside takes viewers on a journey up river into the dark heart of the creative process where one fights the strong current of procrastination.

Sep 22, 2023

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Synopsis

When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years. In the process, Wilcha captures This American Life icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative rebirth, discovers the origin story of David Bowie's ode to a local New Jersey cable television hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and TV writer David Milch. This disparate collection of stories coheres into something strange and expansive--a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.

Director: Christopher Wilcha
Executive Producer: Judd Apatow, James O'Shaughnessy, Lance Acord, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Sam Bisbee, Justin Pollock
Screenwriter: Joe Beshenkovsky, Adam Samuel Goldman, Christopher Wilcha
Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Production Co: Deep Cut, Every Other, Exploded View
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 31, 2024, Limited