Many have noted and appropriately called us out on our knee-jerk reaction to the use of meathead metal rockers Drowning Pool’s “Bodies” in the trailer which we originally thought was a little crass considering soliders and innocents were dying and all, but as you guys so tigerishly pointed out, “Soliders listen to that kind of shit; it’s very appropriate, shut the fuck up.” Ok, point taken.

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You could be making a musical about Jesus Christ’s apocalyptic war on anti-abortion activists as fought by his legion of transsexual warriors, but the first thing the media will ask you after a prolonged nine-year-absence is, “where the hell have you been for nine years?”

The New York Times wouldn’t be above this either (and in this case we can say we don’t blame them) and have done a rather splendid job of charting all the stops and start, failed projects that Peirce tried to attach herself to on the road to her upcoming personal Iraq war soldiers film, “Stop-Loss” (which stars Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Abbie Cornish who acted alongside Heath Ledger in the little-seen 2006 film, “Candy“).

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But if you’re to watch the trailer of her long-overdue follow-up Iraq-war film “Stop Loss” that’s due in March, you might think you’re watching the work of an entirely different filmmaker.

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Newly announced additions to the festival include the Judd Apatow produced comedy, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” written and starring Freak & Geeks alumni Jason Segel, Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stone live concert, “Shine A Light,” Kimberley Peirce’s long-awaited follow-up to “Boys Don’t Cry,” the post-Iraq war film, “Stop Loss,” and Morgan Spurlock’s new documenatary “Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?”

Other newly announced films include the Sundance-buzzed documentary, “American Teen,”the Money Mark-scored indie/DIY artists film, “Beautiful Losers,” “Lou Reed‘s Berlin” (directed by the Oscar-nominated Julian Schnabel), VICE’s much-hyped “Heavy Metal In Baghdad” and the titular post-punk Manchester band documentary, “Joy Division.”

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Other music related documentaries include the computer-geek hip-hop film, “Nerdcore Rising,” the learning disability-challenged punk outfit doc, “Heavy Load,” 8-bit video game-tweaked music subculture, “Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet,” the Bela Fleck chronicle, “Throw Down Your Heart” the dub maestro story, “The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry,” the tale of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound crack team, “The Wrecking Crew,” and a look at deceased homeless mental patient, “Wesley Willis’s Joyrides.”

Previously announced films include Harmony Korine’s “Mister Lonely,” starring Diego Luna and Samantha Morton as Micheal Jackson and Marilyn Monroe impersonators (scored by Spritualized’s Jason Pierce and the Sun City Girls); “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” “The Battle Of Seattle” which features Outkast’s Andre 3000 among an ensemble cast and “The Assassination of A High School President” (with a Polyphonic Spree score).

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