alternapop Meeting People Is Easy is an interesting rockumentary but leaves a little to be desired.It shows how the tribulations of touring, interviews, promotions can wear on you. Constant repetition, unintentionally trite questions by interviewers, or the feeling you're being interrogated or psycho analyzed by a stranger would wear on anyone's patience.It's a bit hard to understand at times due to the English accents, off camera speaking and music playing over top of the voices so closed captioning would be useful.alternapop.comFilm Track List:00:18 Fitter Happier 04:00 Paranoid Android 06:15 Lucky 10:23 Creep 13:26 Climbing Up the Walls (Zero 7 Mix) 15:52 How to Disappear Completely 17:11 Karma Police 19:06 Meeting in the Aisle 21:42 On Your Own Again (song by Scott Walker) 23:48 Airbag 25:47 A Reminder 28:59 Airbag 29:42 Creep 31:37 Paranoid Android 33:32 & 36:30 Life in a Glasshouse 37:16 Exit Music (For a Film) 42:41 Paranoid Android 43:58 Climbing Up the Walls (Fila Brazillia Mix) 44:40 No Surprises 48:42 Unknown song / random jamming 50:08 Climbing Up the Walls 51:09 Street Spirit 53:03 Palo Alto 58:19 Electioneering 1:01:10 Pearly* 1:06:55 Climbing Up the Walls 1:07:06 Paranoid Android 1:07:18 Planet Telex 1:07:52 Follow Me Around 1:13:33 I Will 1:15:48 The Tourist 1:18:16 Sit Down. Stand Up. 1:20:06 Big Boots 1:25:37 Nude 1:29:16 Exit Music (For a Film)

stighelmer I don't think that this movie should be regarded as a typical glamors-celebrity-cult-documentary. It was obvious for me from the very first shot that this was gonna be an art movie. Althoug the subtitle of the movie says "A film about Radiohead", it is quite obvious that the band's history (together with the other typical kind of stuff usually presented in music documentaries, such as a verbal narration, clear outline of a presented material, chronological approach, etc.) is not the main subject of the film. Even the film's title is quite telling - I mean, why would a film about a music band be called "Meeting people is easy", especially in case of a band like Radiohead, whose members - as the film itself indicates - have rather "antisocial" approach and quite a deal of a distance towards music journalists and sometimes even fans (as anybody who has ever heard Tom Yorke's not-always-encouraging remarks at Radiohead's live performances will probably confirm). Personally, I loved the film. I watched it for the first time while being abroad alone for a long time. I felt pretty low and alone, the awareness of my being cut off from my Home, familiar objects and caring people, was painful to me at times. And one of the reasons that I loved "Meeting people..." so much is that while watching it I felt truly understood. The movie conveys a great deal of emotions, the way it is told (through music and pictures, not through words, and that's what's great in it) and edited really captures our (yes, OUR) everyday world - "this mess we're in" - huge and overcrowded cities (where you're still so alone), often ignorant interlocutors (who wouldn't "get you" even if you were speaking for hours), misunderstandings, unwanted responsibilities, constant movement, things that you start but then they go their own ways (you can't even control them anymore)... I think anyone expecting "Meeting people..." to familiarize them with the band's history, discography, brief and concrete verbal presentation backed up by a series of band's pictures and fragments of songs, is bound to be disappointed. But for everyone willing to "get wound-up" by this movie, just go with it without judging its "competence" and "fact-reliability" it is going to be a true masterpiece. To me, this film is about emotions, loneliness, our civilization, OURSELVES, OUR TODAY's WORLD, not about the band's story. Even so, I definitely don't agree with one of the comments saying that "Radiohead fans have nothing to look here for" - on the contrary, I think the film presents a great opportunity to see the band the way it's rarely presented in media - here the band members can get angry, they can laugh at the journalist they're on the phone with, or they can simply sit quiet for a while. Do whatever they like. Be whoever they are. Not always, however - and this is also what the film is about. All that makes "Meeting people..." a remarkable masterpiece, for all those feel-and-think-types out there, not only to Radiohead fans at all.

lost-in-limbo "Meeting people is easy" is a pretty good documentary of Radiohead's OK Computer world tour. It abruptly begins with concerts (bits and pieces), photo shoots, behind the scenes and interviews with the media through Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and ends back the UK where you hear them recording music for their next 2 albums (Kid A and Amnesiac).Its not really a coherent documentary, with scenes cutting back & forth and some arty stuff chucked in for the sake of it, but this DVD shows the media attention and coverage they received, all because of their highly regarded album OK Computer... they were the in band at the time.From this the stress and tension builds up throughout the world tour and we clearly see them getting emotionally drained. You get to hear them playing bits of new and unfinished music which would be later added onto there next 2 albums, but don't just expect live performances (as there is hardly any). They're a band that's not afraid to experiment with their music. Though this DVD is more about their experiences throughout the tour, then that of their music. Some people might have found this boring but I actually quite enjoyed it. It would've been great to get some full length live performances than that of small snippets (though there is good full length performance at the end) but I found the media's attention towards Radiohead and how it was eating them up, very interesting indeed.4.5/5

Kasheen This is a wonderful thought provoking film. It is not easy to watch and it does not focus on gaining insight into the band in conventional ways. Instead you are more of a companion feeling the alienation and isolation that the band seems to be feeling. Because it deals with alienation in both its subject manner and how it is filmed it isn't easy to swallow. For that the film is much more affecting than other rockumentaries that merely focus on the glitz, glamour, and the roudy but slick production that goes into a major band. Perhaps people don't like to think about how all jobs have their downsides but I think the way Gee juxtaposes the sterility and monotony of the countless environments the band is faced with the human fatigue, frustration, and disconnect the band feels from the world and eachother is fascinating and affecting. The title itself sums up the film well with its ironic and perhaps sarcastic comment on the accessibility of artists with their audience. The film also offers a beautiful selection of very personal moments of the band doing their job and shows how deeply the band feels about their music, not in their talking about it, but in their playing, especially the moments outside of the concerts themselves. It shows both the pain that comes with the peculiar kind of hard work the band is faced with and the moments of happiness and excitement that are possible because of that hard work which makes it all worth it. The almost nightmare environment that the film conveys, for me, humanized these men who have been heralded by so many as music messiahs in an industry that keeps getting more slick and more scary. Stunning.