This is the story of talented and tormented Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/ songwriter/ artist, revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.

I had never heard of this film until about five minutes ago. Truth be told, I'd never heard of Daniel Johnston. But damn, I REALLY wanna see this movie.

Just watch the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/devilanddanieljohnston/trailer/

BAD. ASS.

1/27/2006 7:47:23 PM

I've always said that there isn't enough music done by retards

1/27/2006 10:10:39 PM

Exactly.

1/27/2006 10:12:28 PM

wer

[Edited on January 27, 2006 at 10:21 PM. Reason : wer]

1/27/2006 10:18:55 PM

I saw Daniel Johnston at Kings a few years back. One of the songs he plunked out on his parlor-sized acoustic was the most beautiful song about unreciprocated love I've ever heard. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it's not on any of his recordings.

I bought a t-shirt with one of his drawings of Captain America on it and asked him to sign it. He wrote his name in gigantic letters across the front. I need to frame that shit.

Wesley Willis was an extremely friendly person and a fantastic visual artist, but his music was all gimmick. Daniel Johnston can write a fucking pop song.

[Edited on January 27, 2006 at 11:35 PM. Reason : d]

1/27/2006 11:32:14 PM

clinically depressed fellers write good songs

1/28/2006 1:16:31 AM

i think he had some songs on the Kids movie soundtrack. he also sings on an Okkervil River song.

i never really knew what his deal was, but those few songs that i've heard, i liked.

1/28/2006 10:09:44 AM

Do yourself a favor
Become your own savior
And don't forget to forgive

2/27/2006 6:53:24 PM

That trailer's a fucking work of art. Hope the film is as good.

2/27/2006 7:21:49 PM

since you'd never heard of it

should we assume you're not getting it?

2/27/2006 7:25:20 PM

I told him about the Aristocrats and they got it.

I'm hoping this is the same kinda deal.

2/27/2006 7:47:02 PM

^^ ?

It still isn't coming out for a while. And there's a point for any given movie at which I have not yet heard about it.

2/27/2006 8:18:00 PM

First week in June? PERHAPS!

5/4/2006 11:42:01 AM

very much looking forward to this

5/4/2006 4:28:22 PM

the dude put on some weight

5/4/2006 9:30:41 PM

Showtimes this week are 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, and 9:35 (but no 9:35 show on Friday). Student tickets are $5.50, PBR is $2.00, so, basically, you can't go wrong with this one.

6/15/2006 12:03:39 PM

I will be there TOMORROW.

And today to watch PHC, probably.

6/15/2006 1:45:21 PM

This movie is beautiful.

And sad.

But really good. Like, REALLY good. I liked it way more than I'd expected I would.

This definitely gets my seal of approval. A lot like New York Doll, but FAR more epic.

6/16/2006 2:27:14 AM

The brother of Daniel's best friend that's interviewed in the movie a lot came to see it tonight. That was somewhat neat.

6/17/2006 10:32:51 PM

I would like to see this.

6/17/2006 10:37:58 PM

there was a big writeup like a year ago in RELIX about this movie...i'll rent it eventually

6/18/2006 5:07:48 PM

Damn, that was a good movie!

6/18/2006 11:56:40 PM

I'm glad you liked it.

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!111@@1

Note to self: never get in a small plane with a crazy person.

6/19/2006 12:08:20 AM

for realz... that shit was crazy....literally

6/19/2006 12:43:18 AM

This brings a tear to my eye, but Thursday will be the last day we'll be showing The Devil and Daniel Johnston. I would highly recommend coming out to see it, and hopefully somebody else will pick it up/keep it after we're done with it.

6/19/2006 3:20:39 PM

don't even know how i caaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmeeeeee heeeeeeeeereeeeee oh no

i'm wallllllllkiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

the

cow

6/19/2006 3:43:45 PM

His organaire sounds about 10x better than mine did before I threw it the fuck out.

All you could hear was me mashing on the keys. Shit takes like five seconds to make a damn note.

6/19/2006 4:41:32 PM

tight-azz movie.

6/20/2006 12:01:39 AM

'Twas good. The plane story was CRAZY.

It wasn't a revelation of a film from my perspective, but I've also got shit-tons of Johnston stuff so I already knew a lot of the deal. God knows how much archival stuff they culled this from, though.

6/20/2006 2:44:02 AM

seems like he recorded half of his life in some sort of way.

great movie, btw.

6/20/2006 2:59:00 AM

I saw it Saturday; it was awesome.

By the way, are you in charge of the music or something over there spooky? I heard I'm From Barcelona playing.

6/21/2006 1:07:53 PM

I walked out of the theater and My Bloody Valentine had just come on...shit was great.

6/21/2006 1:18:04 PM

^^he is in charge of the music, yet somehow there are multiple Jack Johnson songs that play.

6/21/2006 2:53:13 PM

Those are Jeff's.

Seriously.

Fuck Jack Johnson.

6/21/2006 3:23:02 PM

i heard belle and sebastian. it was sweet.

6/21/2006 5:39:35 PM

Looks like another shitty documentary about some fucked up obscure musician to me.

[Edited on June 21, 2006 at 6:13 PM. Reason : see: "Haack: King of Techno" for another example of the loser musician documentary genre]

6/21/2006 6:09:09 PM

it isn't shitty, though.

6/21/2006 7:12:34 PM

6/21/2006 7:16:22 PM

Went and saw it tonight with Oskar.

Thought it was very, very good.

I knew the dude was rather nuts, but goddamn.

6/22/2006 1:55:23 AM

I finally got around to seeing this, it was really good.

(and no, i didn't just decide to watch it because the new Apple commercial that features one of his songs)

7/2/2018 11:12:51 AM

Quote :

" Wesley Willis was an extremely friendly person and a fantastic visual artist, but his music was all gimmick. Daniel Johnston can write a fucking pop song."

Yeah, you can suck a cheetah's dick

7/2/2018 4:35:06 PM

gnsp

9/11/2019 5:15:29 PM

LUCKY STARS

IN YOUR EYES

9/12/2019 4:04:06 PM

Yeah, you can suck a cheetah's dick

9/12/2019 10:51:01 PM