Sentences with phrase «music documentaries for»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

It was Apple's no - free - music policy that persuaded Taylor Swift — no slouch as a businesswoman — to grant Apple exclusives for both her 1989 album (named for the year she was born), and the new documentary.

For their upcoming album, Fading West, Switchfoot stuck to their surf - rock roots — the latest album serves as the soundtrack to a surf / music / travel documentary that came out in September by the same name.

Home birth advocate Ricki Lake and filmmaker Abby Epstein sat down for a question - and - answer session Saturday afternoon at the Music Box Theatre after screening their provocative documentary «The Business of Being Born,» which compares home and hospital births.

Hutton has since directed music videos (including one for neuroscientist Joe LeDoux's band The Amygdaloids), the concert documentary King for Two Days, and freelance work that helps finance ongoing personal projects, such as Bluebrain.

The song was written by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga for The Hunting Ground, a documentary film about on - campus sexual assaults in the United States, and the music video doubles as a PSA for the same issue.

«The Sundance Film Festival brings the most original storytellers together with the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic and documentary films, shorts, New Frontier films, installations, performances, panel discussions, and dynamic music events.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

With a title taken from an American Indian word for «life out of balance,» Godfrey Reggio's wordless documentary lured dreamers into the sacred cave of cinema, where they ingested the serial music of Philip Glass and the time - lapse imagery of cinematographer Ron Fricke.

After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both music and lyrics for the 1961 Broadway production No Strings; previous solo assignments for Rodgers included the scores for the TV documentary series Victory at Sea (1952) and Winston Churchill (1960).

With revolutionary films, documentaries, music events, and comedy specials for the next generation of film connoisseurs, SHO NEXT ® HD serves up the unexpected, the extraordinary, and the best of what's «next» — all in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

This smart, passionate, thought - provoking and uplifting documentary is for anyone who appreciates the power of music to entertain, inspire and transform.

In 2001 he provided the voice - over for a BBC2 documentary about popular music through the years called Walk On By, as well as starring in a highly - acclaimed theatre production called The Day in the Death of Joe Egg, about a couple with a severely handicapped daughter.

Perhaps a documentary about the real Sam Childers might be more effective, because the slim extra features (an interview with Marc Forster, a featurette on the music, and a video of Chris Cornell's bid for a Best Song Oscar) don't help either.

The Jury Award for best documentary went to Wish Me Away (d. Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf), which chronicles the coming out journey of country music star Chely Wright.

2006 Time Out New York Best Documentary The Radio Times Best Documentary 2007 Rose d'Or Festival, Best of 2007 and Best Arts Documentary (Switzerland) Los Angeles Film, Festival Best International Feature (USA) 2008 Atlanta Film Festival, Audience Award (USA) Bergen International Film Festival, Audience Award (Norway) Warsaw International Film Festival Best Documentary (Poland) Paris Cinema International Film Festival, Jury Prize and Audience Award (France) Nashville Independent Film Festival Impact of Music Award (USA) Sydney Film Festival, Audience Award for Best Documentary (Australia) Los Angeles Film Festival, Humanitas Award for Best Documentary (USA) Ghent Film Festival, Audience Award (Belgium) The International Documentary Awards, Alan Ett Best Music Award (USA) The Festival D'Automne, Audience Award (France) Les Rencontres Cinématographiques de Dijon, Audience Award (France) 2009 Christopher Awards, Christopher Award for Film (USA) The Keswick Film Festival, Audience Award (England) DVD Critics, Best Non-Fiction Title (USA) AG Kino - Gilde German Art House Cinemas, Best Documentary (Germany)

The soundtrack went to the top of the Billboard chart, won a Grammy for album of the year, inspired the documentary Down From the Mountain, and played a significant role in the modest re-popularization of bluegrass music.

Best Art Direction: «Alice in Wonderland» Best Cinematography: «True Grit» Best Costume Design: «Alice in Wonderland» Best Film Editing: «The Social Network» Best Makeup: «Alice in Wonderland» Best Music (Original Score): «Inception» Best Music (Original Song): «Waiting for Superman» Best Sound Editing: «Inception» Best Sound Mixing: «Inception» Best Visual Effects: «Inception» Best Documentary Feature: «Inside Job» Best Animated Feature Film: «Toy Story 3» Best Foreign Language Film: «Life, Above All»

Best Documentary Feature Film Best Director of a Documentary Best First Documentary Feature Best Music Documentary Best Sports Documentary Best Political Documentary Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary Best Limited Documentary Series for Television / Streaming Best Ongoing Documentary Series for Television / Streaming Best Song in a Documentary Most Innovative Documentary

Blu - ray extras include a making - of documentary; four deleted songs and two deleted scenes; a discussion with co-directors John Musker and Ron Clements; a piece on the Broadway adaptation of Aladdin; outtakes from Williams» recording session as the Genie; and, for those so inclined, music videos of Aladdin tunes by the likes of Clay Aiken and Jessica Simpson.

American Idol won The Governors Award, which honors exceptional achievement in the television arts and sciences, while the CNN - produced documentary The Hunting Ground, which investigates sexual assault on American college campuses, won the award for music and lyrics for the original song «Til it Happens to You,» which was written and performed by music artists Lady Gaga.

Features: generally excellent Audio Commentaries [various configurations of producers, writers, directors and cast comment on all eight episodes]; Take a Look at the Lawman — a one hour making of documentary split between discs one and two; Interview Clip with Bharat Nalluri [director for the first two episodes]; The Music of Life On Mars — composer Ed Butt takes us through the surprisingly complex task of composing and arranging the series» theme music; Get Sykes — featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and a [sadly] pretty average Outtakes Music of Life On Mars — composer Ed Butt takes us through the surprisingly complex task of composing and arranging the series» theme music; Get Sykes — featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and a [sadly] pretty average Outtakes music; Get Sykes — featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and a [sadly] pretty average Outtakes Reel.

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

Blu - ray extras include audio commentaries on all three films by writer - producer Bob Gale and producer Neil Canton; a nine - part retrospective documentary; a six - part making - of documentary; deleted scenes; Q&A sessions with Zemeckis, Gale and Fox; a 1989 TV special hosted by Leslie Nielsen; pop - up trivia facts; music videos for «The Power of Love» and (from Part III) ZZ Top's «Doubleback»; and mock 2015 commercials plugging the hoverboard and the release of Jaws 19.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

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.

Documentaries on the topic of music had a two - punch effect on 2012 and 2013 with Searching For Sugar Man and 20 Feet From Stardom, and Amy is looking the most likely to join the list.

DVD Details: This essential box comes with a mediocre making - of documentary, a featurette about the wonderful visual effects, and a music video for the catchy title song by Andy Partridge (formerly of XTC).

Television and streaming have opened up all kinds of opportunities for documentary filmmakers, including larger budgets for the creation of original music and feature - style scores.

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.

Extras: New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson; «Making of The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods, Eugenides, and more; «Lick the Star,» a 1998 short film by Coppola; official music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola; trailer; an essay by novelist Megan Abbott.

Winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary, 20 Feet from Stardom provides an insight into what the music industry (we're told) considers the unsung heroes of pop - music; the backing - singers.

Governors who were not up for reelection and who continue on the Board are Annette Bening and Tom Hanks, Actors Branch; Jim Bissell and Jeffrey Kurland, Art Directors; Caleb Deschanel and Owen Roizman, Cinematographers; Martha Coolidge and Edward Zwick, Directors; Rob Epstein and Lynne Littman, Documentary; Robert Rehme and Tom Sherak, Executives; Donn Cambern and Mark Goldblatt, Film Editors; Bruce Broughton and Arthur Hamilton, Music; Mark Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers; Robert G. Friedman and Sid Ganis, Public Relations; Bill Kroyer and John Lasseter, Short Films and Feature Animation; Don Hall and Kevin O'Connell, Sound; Craig Barron and Bill Taylor, Visual Effects; and James L. Brooks and Phil Robinson, Writers.

A 3D version of Landis's groundbreaking music video for Michael Jackson's Thriller will also be screened, along with a documentary about its making.

«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.

Composer and songwriter Ronit Kirchman, wrote the score for the riveting Golden Globe nominated series, The Sinner (USA) and is the first - ever composer recipient of the Sundance Institute Time Warner Foundation Fellowship in Film Music and has been awarded the Sundance Composers Lab and Documentary Composers Lab Fellowships.

BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND The LAFF program is filled with movies about music, from Clint Eastwood's «Jersey Boys» and John Ridley's «Jimi: All Is By My Side» to a documentary about jazz musician Frank Morgan to an in - depth look at the videos for Beyonce's last album.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos, music by The Cinematic Orchestra Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father, music by Kurt Kuenne Night, music by Cezary Skubiszewski Standard Operating Procedure, music by Danny Elfman Tabarly, music by Yann Tiersen

Don't miss: The extras include a nine - part retrospective from 2009 on the legacy of the trilogy; a short film, «Doc Brown Saves the World,» with Christopher Lloyd, that shows why some of the futuristic gadgets from the second film do not exist today; a peek at the 2012 restoration of the iconic DeLorean; two episodes from «Back to the Future: The Animated Series;» a 2015 commercial for a hoverboard and a trailer for «Jaws 9»; a five - part documentary on the making of the movies, a look at the franchise's physics; deleted scenes; a question - and - answer session with Fox; eight archival featurettes; behind - the - scenes footage; music videos; commentaries; and a look at «Back to the Future: The Ride.»

Here are 3 recent reviews of mine for Hammer to Nail: I Am Not Your Negro, a new documentary (just nominated for an Academy Award) about James Baldwin; Landfill Harmonic, a documentary about children making music on instruments fashioned out of recycled trash; and the Criterion Collection's new Blu - ray release of Noah Baumbach's breakout third feature, The Squid and the Whale, about a family's dissolution in the wake of the parents» divorce.

Filmmaker, Tiffany Shlain, of the documentary Connected poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah.

BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean - Michel Basquiat Description: Sara Driver's documentary is both a celebration of and elegy for the downtown New York art / music / film / performance world of the late 1970s and early»80s, through which Jean - Michel Basquiat shot like a rockFOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean - Michel Basquiat Description: Sara Driver's documentary is both a celebration of and elegy for the downtown New York art / music / film / performance world of the late 1970s and early»80s, through which Jean - Michel Basquiat shot like a rockfor the downtown New York art / music / film / performance world of the late 1970s and early»80s, through which Jean - Michel Basquiat shot like a rocket.

Director, Peter Richardson, of the documentary How to Die In Oregon poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 in Park City, UT.

The documentary is nominated for Outstanding Nature Documentary, Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction, and Outstanding Musdocumentary is nominated for Outstanding Nature Documentary, Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction, and Outstanding MusDocumentary, Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction, and Outstanding Music & Sound.

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Composer J. Ralph has cut an interesting path for himself, working simultaneously as an artist and social activist while writing and producing the music for seven of the Oscar - winning or nominated documentaries over the past eight years.

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.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the film's editing New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara