Starsuckers (2009)
- Directed by
- Chris Atkins
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary reveals how celebrities are manufactured by the media. The filmmakers plant fake stories about famous people and show that tabloids publish them without checking facts. It exposes the tricks behind celebrity culture.
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What happens
Starsuckers is a 2009 British documentary film aiming to expose the "shams and deceit involved in creating a pernicious celebrity culture". Directed by Chris Atkins, director of the 2007 documentary Taking Liberties, it shows the production team planting a variety of celebrity-related stories in the UK media, such as a claim that the singer Avril Lavigne had been seen asleep in a nightclub. A variety of tabloid newspapers accepted the stories without corroboration or evidence. The film launched as part of the British Film Institute's 53rd Film Festival. Thirty minutes of footage from the film were shown to the Leveson Inquiry as part of the evidence presented by the film's director, Chris Atkins. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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