Meta-fiction with your favorite indie rock stars, St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein from Sleater Kinney and “Portlandia,” that sounds pretty different, no? That’s what you’ll get in IFC Films‘ “The Nowhere Inn,” a film that had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last year.

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This one is hard to pigeonhole, it’s sort of a mock rock doc, but it’s also a meta-story about what happened when Carrie Brownstein teamed up with musician St.

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To try to put “The Nowhere Inn” in a simple genre box is a difficult thing. It’s part mockumentary, part drama, part comedy, part character study, part rock biopic. It’s a lot of different things, all wrapped up in a St. Vincent package.

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As seen in the trailer for “The Nowhere Inn,” the film is a meta-story about what happened when Carrie Brownstein teamed up with musician St.

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“I’m not for everybody,” says Annie Clark, the artist also known as St. Vincent — though not to the limo driver who, at the beginning of Bill Benz‘s metafictional mockumentary “The Nowhere Inn,” is interrogating her accusatorily about who she is, knowing she’s famous but having never heard of her. Clark, pristinely clad in designer trench and please-leave-me-alone rock-star sunglasses, doesn’t say it to be dismissive, but rather to give the limo driver a way out of an awkward social situation.

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You may not remember, but Disney’s original “Pete’s Dragon” from 1977 was actually a musical. While David Lowery’s 2016 version won’t feature actors belting it out on camera, the newly released tracklist shows that it won’t be pushing music to the side.

Disney has enlisted a talented set of musicians to fill the “Pete’s Dragon” soundtrack, which features three original songs written for the film.

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