Sentences with phrase «many music documentaries»

It was like a music documentary and it was also like a surfing documentary.

Questlove has become the go - to guy for pop - music perspective in music documentaries for a reason he proves once again here: He brings a musician's knowledge of why a piece of music is special (his analysis here of «Don't Stop «Til You Get Enough» is a mini-music class) as well as a fan's appreciation for what that music meant to millions of ordinary people — how Jackson's music during this era not only defined the time, but made the world a better place simply by its existence.

As Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana's astoundingly rich and resonant music documentary makes abundantly clear, American popular music — and the history of rock and roll itself — wouldn't be the same without the contributions of Native American performers.

Brilliant in telling his story, Marley is among the best music documentaries that I've seen.

I've seen plenty of documentaries on various genres of music as well as rock and metal bands, and Marley is among the best music documentaries that you can watch.

Ringo continued to record music and often appeared in music documentaries, not all of which were about the Beatles.

And so we're tweaking our «Best of the 21st Century» formula (check out our Horror Films, Animated and Music Documentary features) to look instead at the top - grossing films of the century to date, and seeing how, in this season of bottom lines and billions and box office bombs, the 25 reigning champions of the century stack up against each other in terms of quality.

But what a rebound — you know the head's coming off and Fassbender delivers moments of heartbreaking fragility that bring to mind the cult music documentary «The Devil and Daniel Johnston».

After years in the making, Brett Morgen's documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is finally being viewed by audiences everywhere and is quickly taking its place among the best music documentaries ever made.

Meanwhile, music documentary «Beware of Mr. Baker» and William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe» (which opens in July) were both highlights of SXSW, while Cuban drama «Una Noche» and Keanu Reeves «filmmaking documentary «Side By Side» were leading lights at Tribeca and Berlin.

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Moving into directing, he made hundreds of music videos and music documentaries for various recording artists.

Hans Zimmer, James Cameron and Trent Reznor Star in the First Trailer for «Score: A Film Music Documentary»

Matt Schrader talks at length about his one - of - a-kind project, SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY — this definitive doc gets inside the mind of Henry Jackman, Steve Jablonsky, Harry Gregson - Williams, and dozens of influential composers.

Steven Spielberg finally hits his stride as a mature filmmaker with the autobiographical (and sharply auto - critical) Catch Me If You Can while new directors Sam Jones and Todd Louiso offer, respectively, a magnificent music documentary (I Am Trying to Break Your Heart) and a story of grief and loss (Love Liza) just to the south of true.

Although Anderson is a veteran of music videos for artists like Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann and, most recently, Joanna Newsom, Junun marks both his first music documentary and debut documentary film in general.

Doug Nichol started out his career as a cinematographer on such music documentaries as Truth or Dare (Madonna) and Rattle and Hum (U2) and the director of hundreds of award - winning music videos and commercials.

Gary's list of credits ranges from the music documentaries early in his career, to Pretty in Pink, Back to School, Ghostbusters II, Benny and Joon, Dolores Claiborne and a host of major film credits through the 1980s, 1990s, 200s and on to the present day.

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Film - geek auteur projects, psychotronic fanboy - friendly blockbusters, over-the-top midnight movies, under - the - radar indie dramas and more music documentaries than you can shake a D.A. Pennebraker - approved stick at — the annual SXSW Film Festival (kicking off on March 10th) has always specialized in a sort of eclectic, lo - fi - meets - high - art - for - a-Shiner-Bock vibe when it comes to their programming.

This is the second narrative feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998 debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

(Italy) George Harrison: Living In The Material World, music documentary directed by Martin Scorsese (USA) Goodbye First Love, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.

«Mistaken for Strangers,» about the indie rock band The National, takes a totally different route into a genre we've all seen a million times: the music documentary.

Before then, there were hit music documentaries like «Woodstock» but most other nonfiction films could expect short runs in few theaters before dutiful audiences.

But Grohl's smart enough that he probably could have done the whole thing on his Macbook and it would still be one of the best music documentaries of the year.

Today, we're celebrating the release on Blu - ray and DVD of Les Blank's legendary Leon Russell music documentary A Poem Is a Naked Person.

Film festivals have been enamored of music documentaries for years, well aware of the drawing power and audience appeal that comes from putting popular artists on the big screen.

But industry success alone doesn't merit a music documentary (something nobody told the makers of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never).

Gravitas Ventures will release Schrader's Score: A Film Music Documentary in select theaters starting June 16th this summer.

Music documentaries have been a staple for Abramorama including the recent Long Strange Trip — The Untold Story of The Grateful Dead, which had a one week run of theatrical showings and special event screenings before heading to Amazon Prime.

In the Best Music Documentary category, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World, directed by Catherine Bainbridge (and Alfonso Maiorana), was nominated.

Score: A Film Music Documentary is directed by filmmaker Matt Schrader, making his directorial debut.

Gravitas Ventures has revealed a trailer for a documentary about the work of composers, titled Score: A Film Music Documentary.

Link Wray, whose 1958 song «Rumble» lends this lively, thought - provoking music documentary its title, is part Shawnee Indian.

From the time I started working on my first music documentary, I appreciated how it's a way into anything, generations, gender, equality, creative genius, and ideally it can rise above just being about music.

Forget the videogame — it's a real - life version of Guitar Hero when Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White get together for the music documentary It Might Get Loud, an exploration of the electric guitar that spans, roughly, three different musical generations, and encompasses all sorts of different modes of expression.

Shockya's is debuting an exclusive clip from directors Michael Koczynski and Mino Kodama's music documentary, «Above Ground Level: Dubfire.»

«Made In America» is a music documentary based on the new festival of the same name founded by Jay - Z who is also the movie's executive producer.

The festival just announced another late addition - the music documentary Lambert & Stamp, in which the filmmakers «set out to search for a subject for their underground movie, leading them to discover, mentor, and manage the iconic band known as The Who and create rock»n' roll history.»

But the sense I get here is that Crowe is less concerned with how his film plays to the industry than with how it rekindles his enthusiasm for the medium after taking such a beating for his last effort — that approach can go either way, but having also recently wrapped a pair of music documentaries (one of which, «Pearl Jam Twenty» will play Toronto next month), he's clearly in a productive frame of mind.

December 1, 2002 An accomplished photographer whose work has been featured in ESQUIRE, GQ, VANITY FAIR, and ROLLING STONE, Sam Jones makes his directorial debut with the raw, fantastic music documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, which follows alt - country band Wilco as they complete their album «Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.»

Funny that there is a real chance Joshua Oppenheimer's second Indonesia documentary will lose to another music documentary (The Act of Killing lost out to Twenty Feet from Stardom two years ago), though in this case I perhaps controversially believe it's the right choice.

Notorious British filmmaker Nick Broomfield teams up with Austrian music documentary producer Rudi Dolezal to...

Filmed between the writing stages of her fourth studio album Joanne and her monumental appearance at the 2017 Super Bowl, the film turns a cultural icon into a relatable human being in a way that so many music documentaries try and ultimately fail to.

A brilliant music documentary that takes its place alongside the Maysles brothers» Gim me Shelter, Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night (and even Sam Jones's I Am Trying to Break Your Heart), The Beach Boys: An American Band has the feeling of delirium and the delirious.

What a shame British fans of Michael Jackson will not get to see Spike Lee's terrific music documentary Bad 25 in cinemas.

Considered by many to be one of the best cinematographer / directors in Canada, John Walker returns with a new documentary A Drummer's Dream, a music documentary which brings together some of the finest drummers in the world.

Michael Moore's screed against the American health care system Sicko, Laura Dunn's cosmic meditation on the environment and political action The Unforeseen — MIFF 2007, Julian Temple's ultimate music documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten — MIFF 2007, Chris Smith's poetic parable of class and poverty The Pool — MIFF 2007, Shane Meadows pitch perfect recreation of 80's England, This is England, and finally, a year late because I saw it late, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Half Nelson, which would make my top five in any year and is easily one of the best American independent films of the decade.

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