‘Flipside,’ Chris Wilcha’s Record Store Doc From EP Judd Apatow, Acquired By Oscilloscope
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken North America on Flipside, a new documentary from filmmaker Chris Wilcha, which world premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
Exec produced by Judd Apatow, the film is slated for release in theaters this year. Flipside sees Wilcha revisit the New Jersey record store he worked at as a teenager, finding the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times.
The film chronicles 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.
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