Sentences with phrase «music doc»
The rest of the film plays out like a more standard music doc.
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In this weekend at the movies chat, I talk about the fantastic Moonlight, Park Chan - Wook's terrific The Handmaiden, the great music doc Oasis: Supersonic and, uh, Inferno...
This oddly named but inestimable DVD outfit deserves a shout - out for its industrious and often wondrous efforts as a quality clearinghouse for niche titles that might otherwise fall through the cracks, from music docs (The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle) to classic television (Freaks and Geeks, SCTV, priceless Dick Cavett collections devoted to film, rock music, and comedy), and definitive comedy compilations (Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor).
And this year's programming once again presents a hodge - podge of movies that run the gamut from marquee - name Hollywood movies (Paramount's spring thriller A Quiet Place starring Emily Blunt is the opening - night selection) to mash notes from the digital underground, music docs on Southern rockers and free - jazz legends and a Mississippi native named Elvis, the usual midnight - movie psychotronica and a whole lot of beautifully unclassifiable missives from the margins.
Far from your ordinary music doc, the film is loosely set in a fictional 24 hours in Cave's life as he examines his own songwriting process and transforms his music from an unformed sketch to a live show scorcher.
2013 brought Variance its highest - grossing film to date in the form of Dave Grohl's music doc Sound City, which, in turn, gave the tiny but innovative distributor its best - ever year at the box office.
In the works is Lucy Walker's sequel to Wim Wenders and Ry Cooder's classic Cuba music doc, «Buena Vista Social Club.»
Classical music doc Itzhak expanded to 19 runs in its second weekend, conducting $ 37,500, while SPC's The Leisure Seeker with Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland camped in 49 theaters in its second outing, taking in $ 149K.
And Abramorama is opening its latest music doc, Sidemen: Long Road to Glory, in New York this week followed by two dozen runs by Labor Day weekend.
From Charlize Theron kicking ass to major music docs and a new Terrence Malick drama — 20 must - see movies to catch at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival.
It was a momentous music doc focussing on the love - hate and dog - eat - dog relationship between rival bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the Dandy Warhols.
But I also think the best music docs use music as a Trojan horse.
From Afropop music docs to quirky indie thrillers, here's a guide to what else is playing in a theater near you this summer
Most significantly, Pete Townshend's honest self - condemnation in interviews makes this a rare and revealing music doc.
In virtue of this, Broken Song is more of a character piece than your run - of - the - mill music doc and despite the talent on screen and the arena of scope, the filmmakers are confident enough to allow moments of silence and quiet contemplation.
The former is an exhilarating music doc that spotlights a largely unknown bevy of mostly African - American, female backup singers — Darlene Love and Merry Clayton among them — for pop groups and rock legends.
No problem — head to Ft. Worth for the Lone Star Film Festival, or go to the Texas Theatre for a great music doc.
Like Christian - themed blockbusters God's Not Dead and Woodlawn before it, the music doc seeks to win over the 35 percent of non-Christians who attend religious themed movies.
Like Christian - themed blockbusters God's Not Dead and Woodlawn before it, the music doc seeks to win over...
«Twenty Feet from Stardom» Oscar winner Morgan Neville (right) is back with another music doc: «Keith Richards: Under the Influence».
The Tribeca Film Festival allowed this frequent New York festivalgoer a chance to see three genuinely surprising features quite unlike each other, except that they're three pop experiments that flit around their genres» boundaries (music doc, food doc / road film, and porn / musical) and are all quietly unforgettable.
Another one was 20,000 Days on Earth, the Nick Cave doc unlike any music doc I've watched.
Drafthouse Films opened Stephen Kijak's music doc We Are X exclusively in Los Angeles, grossing $ 8,300, it will head to San Francisco and Austin next week, followed by New York.