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Hot Sugar's Cold World

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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Nick Koenig in Hot Sugar's Cold World (2015)
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A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.

  • Director
    • Adam Bhala Lough
  • Writers
    • Adam Bhala Lough
    • Hunter Stephenson
  • Stars
    • Frank Andrews
    • Danny Brown
    • Shelby Fero
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    146
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    • Director
      • Adam Bhala Lough
    • Writers
      • Adam Bhala Lough
      • Hunter Stephenson
    • Stars
      • Frank Andrews
      • Danny Brown
      • Shelby Fero
    • 5User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Frank Andrews
    • Psychic
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    • Self
    Shelby Fero
    Shelby Fero
    • Self
    Jim Jarmusch
    Jim Jarmusch
    • Self
    Nick Koenig
    Nick Koenig
    • Self
    Martin Starr
    Martin Starr
    • Self
    Himanshu Suri
    • Self
    Rachel Trachtenburg
    • Self
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Self
    Victor Vazquez
    • Self
    Pat Healy
    Pat Healy
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    • Director
      • Adam Bhala Lough
    • Writers
      • Adam Bhala Lough
      • Hunter Stephenson
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    10mpelayolozano

    A Glimpse From Silence

    The films takes us to a peculiar world and vision of sound from Nick Koenig's perspective. It takes us into his world and his own usage of sound in order to create his unique and amazing songs.

    I was very inspired after watching it!. The film is entertaining with great picture, score and story telling. I even discovered artists that have collaborated with Nick that resonated with me as well. The film is definitely worth watching. It shares new visions and approaches towards things that we take from granted or even ignored at some point, sharing the uniqueness and beauty of everything around us.

    It also shares some parts of Nick's everyday life. Which is great! because it takes us deeper into the story and his sources of inspiration.

    Congrats to all the team involved in this documentary!
    2schadenfroh

    Modern Mozart?

    When you open your film by calling someone a "modern Mozart," that's a tall order to fill; and not only does this film not make its case, I wondered half way through if it was actually parody. It was angst-y in a way that made me resent youth. It was joyless, gray and flat.

    Hot Sugar's Cold World was hyperbolically pretentious, particularly when our protagonist prodigy decides he wants to "record the silence" of different funeral rooms and morgues. "The silence of that room was too intense for me." Screw you.

    It's also enough to make one puke to hear this little twerp explain Pavlov's experiments to Neil Degrasse Tyson the way one might explain it to a five year old. Yeah, I think he gets it kid.

    Like Nick says in voice over at the end, "I'm no longer afraid of getting old, or being old." Me neither. If this film is what youth is like, you can have it.
    1haleyanelson

    Made to feed his ego

    Right from the beginning, I could tell what kind of movie this was going to be- another boring, over-the-top, trying too hard to be different, hipster documentary. It starts out with what seems to be a very sad, grown man, complaining about his girlfriend that he broke up with 2 years ago. Kitty is framed by Hot Sugar as a mean, stuck up ex; while Hot Sugar is framed as the innocent victim who was just trying to make things work. It was so clear that he is still bitter about their breakup- which is fine, but I don't want to watch an hour long movie about a bitter and depressed man that does nothing to better himself except complain more. The movie starts to switch focus onto his music- what I was waiting for the entire first half of the movie-, but it ends up getting even more boring. It becomes long shots of him staring off into the distance unemotionally(maybe they were trying to lengthen it so it would be considered a real movie). The thing I find the funniest is that they try framing him as some sort of musical genius, as if he created the entire techno/dubstep/electro genre- he's just another Tumblr famous guy who somehow gained a following for being "unique". It's a joke. Next time, create a documentary on a musician who actually changed things. Just don't watch it- save yourself the time. Maybe take a yoga class or learn to knit, do something good for yourself- just don't watch this waste of time.

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      Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 512: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and Hot Docs 2015 (2015)
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      And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
      written by Nick Koenig (as Nick Koenig-Dzialowski'

      performed by Nick Koenig (as Hot Sugar)

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    • Release date
      • November 6, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • SXSW Film Guide
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Холодный мир Hot Sugar
    • Production company
      • Rough House Pictures
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      • 1h 27m(87 min)
    • Color
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