(UPDATED) THE CURE Untitled Documentary Film Series - Part 1 of 5

UPDATES: A little bit added to the Faith, Top eras, and a couple more little bits here and there. Also added some professional subtitles, but the translations may still be sub-par.
Part one of a Documentary Film Series about The Cure. Somewhat chronological but jumps around. Note: The video for 10:15 Saturday Night is masked - unmasked, extended versions here: vimeo.com/showcase/6083201
This is a KZbin-sourced assembly of interviews, concerts, videos, TV appearances and behind-the-scenes releases. It started just as a side-project / experiment to see how it all went together, and grew. It's not intended to be definitive, just one perspective from inside a really fun & inspiring rabbit hole. If you'd like to know the source of any particular clip, comment and I'll post the link.
For educational purposes only. It's not important.
#thecure #curefilm #curedocumentary #curemovie #robertsmith

[@PARRISHMELLOTT]

THE CURE SAVED MY LIFE

[@joelcrowservo]

That “A Forest” montage was brilliant. This isn’t your usual music documentary, but The Cure isn’t your usual band!

[@Crrly]

Loved it! But I wished the ending had been the one from "Show" where Simon goes all in.

[@Whirlydb]

What you did here is unbelievable. This series is the greatest rockumentary I've ever seen and the editing is insanely good. This should be recognized by Robert Smith as a huge tribute and brilliant perspective of the bands arc. From what I understand he is releasing a documentary soon. I honest thought this was what he meant. Great work.

[@BearWithNoFace]

Darryl Baker thank you so much!!

[@SM-je3dh]

I'm French so I couldn't correctly express how wonderfully surprised and charmed I was at discovering your huge work of compiling, capturing, understanding, editing, the treasure of this wonderful band work. It's the same word in both languages: gratitude. Thank you so much. This is not only a piece of history , but of our own intimates lives.

[@Hopelesslittlekilljoy]

As a diehard advocate for Seventeen Seconds, the “A Forest” montage was incredible. So well done and shows just how incredibly consistent they have been.

[@lordsofkoble]

The A Forrest montage was a kaleidoscopic recap of my Cure memories. That song so consistent but the players ever changing and rotating. The names coming back to me still after so many years. Much of the footage in part one I remember from 3 hr bootleg vhs tape compilations I obsessed over in the 90's. I came over all emotional when A night like this brought this first part to a close. Thank you for bringing this back to me.

[@debbieturner6194]

This is simply one of the best things on the Cure that I have ever seen. Absolutely amazing!!

[@JustinQuinn623]

Robert Smith responding "no" to interviewers is my favorite

[@phyllisstein7580]

Thanks so much....incredible footage and a fascinating look into the band that really got me through some pretty crappy teenage years. Its an insight into the wonderful mind that is Robert Smith. I hope anyone who loves The cure finds this, as its amazing .....I still listen to the first 4 albums to this day, constantly. I saw them in the 80s ,then , took my teenage son to see them on the last tour. Massive difference in venue size - huge gig- but just as incredible as you would imagine. 3 hours of pure enjoyment...I just wish that I had explored the rest of their albums at the time, instead of being a snotty elitist teen who thought they had sold out. I was so wrong. So wrong. Brilliant doco , a fantastic piece of work ....amazing

[@42roadsforman44]

This documentary on the cure is fantastic and so well done! I love all the behind the scenes footage. It is so much more expansive than really any other Rock documentary I've seen. It needs to be said again the montage of 'a forest' was expertly done.

[@LSRondo]

This doc is fantastically well made!! A huge thanks for the tremendous effort it surely took. Loving every second

[@nikolademitri731]

Love the additional “The Top” era footage, such an underrated album! I remember being very weirded out by it when I first heard it, I was around 16, maybe 15, but I just didn’t understand it. I enjoyed some of it for the darkness, but it just didn’t click for me the way “Faith” or “Pornography” did. A couple years later, post-high school, after herbs and fungus and lysergic things came into my life, I remember revisiting the album, and being like, “ohhhhh, now I get it”. If I recall correctly, Robert was drinking a lot of mushroom tea around the time of “The Top”, which I now hear 💯 when I listen to it.

[@alukuhito]

The Amazing thing about The Top is that it's basically just Robert and Lol. Simon was out of the band at the time, so all the bass lines (and there's some really good bass on that album) were Robert. Even Simon can't kill the Cure. They go on regardless of member dramas.

[@allowyou9225]

The Top is hugely underrated cure album it's a Robert Smith solo album essentially Robert Smith Andy Anderson on drums and Lol. Smith was under great stress while making the top and also using a lot of drugs he was also in Siouxsie and the Banshees at the same time.

[@heidih3048]

I got really into The Top in my late teens just after starting an SSRI antidepressant-- the way the drug changed my perception of reality was extreme. Before that, Faith and Pornography were my favorite Cure albums. Finally got off SSRIs over 20 years later. I wish I had just gone the occasional mushroom tea route, instead.

[@veloraloves]

I was too young for psychedelic's in middle school in 85 when I got this (The Top) on vinyl for Christmas. I didn't get it at first either. But eventually, I forced myself to listen to it and fell in love with it. No one I knew had it or talked much about it, with Standing on a Beach and eventually Kiss Me x3 being the more popular picks with the crowd in my school, so it became my own little secret joy. To this day, Birdmad Girl is one of my top 5 Cure tracks. And yes, it made much more sense when I discovered the component I was missing

[@plugugly1383]

What a top notch job. Seriously. I thought I'd seen all their old footage, but I guess not. That Forest mix is superb

[@TANGERINEMIND]

Deep. Precious document. Marvelous Cure. So, Energy flows...Thanks.

[@nurep13]

I can’t believe I’m barely seeing this now. This is amazing so far, and I can’t wait to watch the rest of it. Thank you for much for putting this together, it’s clear that you put your all into this.

[@debhamwood]

Excellent documentary! Thank you so much for sharing with us. I've been a Cure fan for a long time and have really enjoyed watching footage I've seen before and also rarer footage that I haven't seen. Your montage of A Forest is just amazing. So glad I stumbled on this. :)

[@shawnacory6399]

Omg I just had KZbin randomly playing - not even music - and THIS popped up!!! I'm only 12 minutes in and I'm just beside myself with happiness. Thank you thank you thank you. ❤ (I watched Staring at the Sea on VHS every day after school most of my freshman year of high school, ha. This is cooler.) Can't wait to see all 5.

[@gothicmatter9123]

One of my favorite bands!!

[@julietaf]

I'm so happy I founded this. it's beautiful, thank you

[@snakey319]

we need this now.

[@jessie0076]

Love it! Thank you for making it. Can’t wait to watch the other three parts.

[@MrSwampFox2U]

So amazing. Thank you whoever you are.

[@Sinwillfindyou]

I🦧🌸💊🥰 I saw a 3 hour Jesus and Mary Chain documentary on KZbin not long ago. It was excellent as well. This filled my mind isolated quarantine day today and I couldn’t thank u enough. Love and drugs and booze to you my friend. 🐼🍭💉😷

[@BearWithNoFace]

Updated footage timestamps: 12:55 16:55 31:09 39:43 41:25 48:22

[@ResidualOaklore]

I knew if I scrolled through the comments you wouldn't let me down. Thanks!!

[@davidmalfair7849]

Beautifully done!

[@Sept1973]

Fantastic doco series incredible footage, thankyou for uploading -amazing.

[@sow1084]

Thanks to the person who edited this great series 🤩

[@stacirizner4461]

🥺😭 beautifully done 💋

[@chriswhrtn]

love the live show splits🔥

[@themodernday5699]

Fantastic! Thank you.

[@Crrly]

There are two bands that have changed me profoundly - The Cure and our own Swedish national treasure - Kent (they sadly split up in 2016)

[@kyokootonashi1054]

Woooow spettacolare upload, li vedrò tutti! Grazie per averli caricati! La miglior band in assoluto 🖤

[@toby8264]

you did it again!!! Thanks!!! ☺️

[@donniedarko1345]

Picked up a bass guitar in 1989 when I was 13 years old.....completely because of THE CURE

[@martinmcwilliams]

Fantastic documentary

[@jeromemaire7936]

So great bro !!! what an amazing sounds .... thank a lot for you're work bro .... Géronimo thank Bear .... peace

[@hellterskeltor]

WOW this is just amazing and very well done..loved it...

[@apollinaria3860]

So interesting!!

[@Hollowland8689]

Excellent stuff 😄

[@ericlokishannonhouse2317]

OMG, this is truly enjoyable and so well done. Mostly, like everyone else, I am hanging on, entranced by every part of the "A Forrest" sequence and it's remarkable. If you haven't already, I hope that some contact with The Cure (if it doesn't already exist for u) comes about and that this whole series helps you with some success ($$), or whatever it is that gives you a feeling of success. Personally I found the way you got all of the clips from ( A Forrest ) to sound so awesome, given the myriad of sound qualities and recording gear from all those years...Thank you for sharing!! :)

[@ericlokishannonhouse2317]

not only everything else, but I think the interviews from the "Primary" years are priceless.

[@fayshoneshiredotcom5279]

Excellent ❤️

[@megcuresmithcurelove9476]

FANTASTIC!!!!THANKS🎶🖤💜🎶

[@420greatestqueen]

Awesome!

[@_Prostir_]

wow great!!!!

[@pantherapardus4]

How in the world did you get the montage of different performances of "The Forest" to match up so perfectly? I would assume that you used one audio track so the pitch and tempo would be consistent, but the background sound varies sometimes. And the music is always perfectly synced with the video. Are they just that consistent from performance to performance? I had noticed that about them anyway. Anyway, this is superb work. (*one thing I would have appreciated, though, is to have the name of the song they're playing visible the whole time. I love them, but I can't always remember which songs are which.)

[@BearWithNoFace]

Hi Susan! All the audio is the unaltered live tracks that match the picture/performance (with fades to try to smooth them out). It's amazing how consistent they've stayed, even with all the variations. Tempo varies a lot but pitch stays almost, if not exactly the same (for all songs!)

[@pantherapardus4]

@@BearWithNoFace That is amazing. Thanks for answering. Oh, I just saw the end and found a place where the audio & video seemed different. The last song, which I don't know the title of, that starts with "Say goodbye on a night like this..."

[@BearWithNoFace]

@@pantherapardus4 that is actually a mistake! Oh well, can't win them all.

[@pantherapardus4]

@@BearWithNoFace Indeed!

[@majorDen]

@@pantherapardus4 You actually have the title in the sentence you quoted :) : A Night Like This.

[@randymarthins3473]

Gotta give credit to the chick who tried to kill me [twice] for introducing me to The Cure Interstingly enough, their FIRST show in the US was in Cherry Hill, NJ

[@MrSwampFox2U]

Best band.

[@nathan3287]

Geez Robert Smith and Daniel Jones from Silverchair are so similar to each other, it must be a musical genius thing

[@UpsideDownWorld]

hi, is this available to purchase in it's entirety on DVD or digital format?? you did a fantastic job putting this together...THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Robert Smith is a musical GENIUS!!! 💙💙

[@BearWithNoFace]

Hi, it’s not for purchase but I was thinking about doing some DVDs if there’s enough interest

[@LonzosSprayPainting]

52:42 someone threw a freaking cup at robert

[@ronneyrendon]

I wonder if they ever washed their hair.

[@borismagnin7540]

Cover here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5ragn6Mrb-WY7M

[@AuralVirus]

goth? meh horrid term - The Cure were to Punk what The Cramps were to Rocka-billy. Psychedelic Punk (on a B&W TV). chickens with lips, fish with feet. but then again there should only be 2 genres, 1/music that moves you. 2/music that doesn't yet move you. and thats 1 too many genres already.

[@Hollowland8689]

Part 2?

[@BearWithNoFace]

It's here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6bboYihfs2roNU

[@gothiqua08]

French subtitles please !! Sous-titres en français s'il-vous-plait !!

[@BearWithNoFace]

There are French subtitles - if you click on Subtitles you can select French. Then turn CC on. I hope this helps!

[@BearWithNoFace]

Oops! I mean if you select Settings > Subtitles, you can select French!

[@gothiqua08]

@@BearWithNoFace Thank you, I try tonight... :)

[@Kate-448]

29:39 😛

[@BearWithNoFace]

My favorite part

[@lehliladevandria5712]

Where is the updated footage?

[@BearWithNoFace]

13:07 16:55 31:17 39:53 41:25 48:31

[@lehliladevandria5712]

@@BearWithNoFace That's very nice. Thank you.

[@BearWithNoFace]

@@lehliladevandria5712 you're welcome!