Hype!

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DVD Features:

Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
Video: Color
Released: September 29, 2017
Originally Released: 1996
Label: Shout Factory
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Note: "Hype! 20 Years After" Featuring new interviews with members of Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and The Fastbacks, Record Producers Jack Endino and Steve Fisk, Manager Susan Silver, and Photographer Charles Peterson

New Audio Commentary by Director Doug Pray
Vintage Interviews and Performances
Peter Bagge's Animated Short, "Hate"

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:

Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Featured:		Mudhoney, Gas Huffer, The Posies, Soundgarden, Flop, Nirvana, The Young Fresh Fellows, Seaweed, 7 Year Bitch, Supersuckers, The Melvins, The Gits, Coffin Break, Dead Moon, Jeff Ament & Chris Cornell
Directed by		Doug Pray
Edited by		Earl Ghaffari, Doug Pray & Joan Zapata
Produced by		Lisa Dutton, Pete Vogt & Steven Helvey
Director of Photography:		Robert Bennett

Entertainment Reviews:

Variety

Jan 29, 1996

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 31, 1997

Product Description:

A clever chronicle of the commodification of the Pacific Northwest's celebrated "grunge" rock scene, whose members were lifted out of underground obscurity and propelled into the national spotlight--sometimes to their surprise--after the major-label success of the seminal grunge-pop trio Nirvana. Features rare interviews and performances from the gamut of grungesters, from the candy-pop stylings of The Posies to the rage rock of riot grrrls 7 Year Bitch and the country-punk swaggering of the Supersuckers.

Plot Synopsis:

Filmed over a 3-1/2 year period, "Hype!" takes a close, hard look at Seattle's "grunge" music scene, from its origins in the basements of young musicians in the 1980s to its worldwide popularity in the early 1990s, thanks largely to Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Interviews and performance footage of Seattle musicians (both famous and unknown), provide insight into the history of grunge, most notably its effect on the music industry, and its exploitation by the media.

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Production Notes:

Shown at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
Released theatrically in New York City November 8, 1996.
Additional credits: Lisa Dutton and Pete Vogt (co-producers); Joan Zapata (editor).
Other music bands featured include The Posies, 7 Year Bitch, Flop, Love Battery, The Melvins.
The film was shot over a 3 1/2 year period.