White Diamond: A Personal Portrait of Kylie Minogue
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| Directed by | William Baker |
| Produced by | Tom Colbourne |
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Kylie Minogue Dannii Minogue William Baker Oliver Martinez Bono |
| Music by | Steve Anderson |
| Cinematography | Justin Murphy |
| Edited by | Reg Wrench Dan Swimer |
| Distributed by | EMI Records Ltd. |
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118 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Australia |
| Language | English |
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| Video by Kylie Minogue | ||||
| Released | 10 December 2007 (Region 2) 28 April 2008 (Region 1) |
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| Recorded | 11 December 2006 in Melbourne, Australia | |||
| Genre | Pop music | |||
| Length | 268:00 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Director | William Baker | |||
| Producer | Tom Colburne, Kylie Minogue | |||
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| BBC News | link |
| The Daily Telegraph | link |
| IMDb | 7.8/10 |
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White Diamond: A Personal Portrait of Kylie Minogue is a 2007 documentary film directed and produced by William Baker and chronicling the life of Australian singer Kylie Minogue during her concert tour Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. It was filmed between August 2006 and March 2007 in both Australia and the United Kingdom.
Intended as an account of Minogue's return to the stage following her recovery from cancer, the film features on-stage and back-stage footage and interviews with several of Minogue's tour crew, including the director, William Baker. Kylie's sister Dannii and U2 lead singer Bono are also featured.
The film had a one-night premiere in each country, starting in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2007 and ending on 16 November 2007 in New Zealand. It received mostly negative reviews. It was later released on DVD in two editions: the European/United Kingdom edition and the Australian/New Zealand edition. These were later followed by a two-disc edition; the second disc contained a concert that was filmed during Kylie's Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour in Melbourne, Australia.
The title White Diamond was taken from one of Kylie's songs (written by Scissor Sisters). This song is the sole new song performed by her during Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. The film opens with a reworked ballad version of it.
Two new songs, "I'm Hip" and "You Are There", are on the movie's soundtrack. Also on the soundtrack is "Alone Again", a previously unrecorded 2002 song that was co-written by Madonna and Rick Nowels.
At the beginning of White Diamond, the director, William Baker, says: "For most people, Neighbours, 'I Should Be So Lucky,' Michael Hutchence, gold hot pants, 'Can't Get You Out of My Head,' and cancer equals Kylie. I want to rip that surface away."
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