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Sundance music documentary: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ is about more than a concert

Sundance music documentary: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ is about more than a concert

By david burger
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jan 23, 2012 04:12PM MDT

Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace are directing partners whose documentary on the band Blur, “No Distance Left to Run,” was nominated for a Grammy, among other awards.
Despite the accolades, the duo thought they would go in a different direction. “Having made a music film, we weren’t sure that we would do another,” Southern said.
But when the Englishmen learned that James Murphy and his band mates in the popular electronic music band LCD Soundsystem were breaking up, they were intrigued by the s...

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