Screenings: March 1, 10:15pm (Rep); March 2, 7pm (Cal).
Plenty of folks know Jack Black is an actor, but his musical career as half of the acoustic heavy metal satire duo Tenacious D was known only to the band’s cult following — until their film, “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny” reached a somewhat larger audience. “D-Tour” is a documentary chronicling the tour Jack Black and his musical partner Kyle Gass went on to promote the film and its accompanying album.
The behind-the-scenes footage of tour preparation, rehearsals, and song writing is wonderful, and it is fun to see Black and Gass roaming the globe, their friends and family in tow. Things get stressful when “Pick of Destiny” opens to poor box office returns, but the D rallies and put on the rest of the tour anyway, working through the strain of their biggest tour to date and Black’s massive popularity. This is an up close and personal look behind the stage personas of the Princes of Hell.