Sentences with phrase «of rock documentaries»

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Film Featuring Female Tech Entrepreneurs Comes to Little Rock Little Rock, Ark., June 1, 2017 The Start Here Initiative today announced a free, public screening of the inspirational documentary She Started It.

I say this only because Cameron Crowe's documentary, which showed the Pearl Jam's alleged heroic testimony before Congress as they called out the monopoly of Ticketmaster in setting prices for concert tickets, made this band something other than a rehash of «70s stadium rock with a lead singer with a Bono complex.

The giraffe, one of two large giraffe carvings on the same outcrop, stands a remarkable 20 feet tall — and is probably the largest known prehistoric engraving, says documentary photographer David Coulson of the Trust for African Rock Art, who reported its existence last year.

From the creators of the best - selling documentary FOOD MATTERS comes another hard - hitting film certain to rock your world.

This is a woman who not only has the audacity to stand up to Anna Wintour (as we saw more than a few times in the documentary), but also the confidence to rock that billowing cloud of I - don't - care - what - you - think red hair within the halls of Vogue — where the word «critical» is likely an understatement.

Family The Story of Malignus Youth A documentary of Malignus Youth, a punk rock band from Arizona, who rose up out of a troubled region, to form a tight knit.

OkCupid has banned white supremacist Chris Cantwell from their dating site after a Vice News documentary about the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville Chris Rock filed for divorce from his wife of 19 years for one simple reason he wasn't happy in the marriage, sources directly connected to

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.

A documentary film crew join cult rock band, Dead Cat Bounce, as they cross Europe in search of lead singer Jim's real father - who he is almost certain is the legendary rock singer and Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale.

One of the better contemporary documentaries I've seen, this film is thorough but accessible, and it's on rock - solid footing, based on the book by journalist Bethany McLean as it is.

ROCK FRESH is an electrifying documentary on the world of the graffiti artist.

Critics Consensus: Festival Express is a spellbinding documentary that nostalgically chronicles five days in the summer of 1970, when a train full of now - legendary rock perfomers jammed its way across Canada.

Now, in the fictionalised documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, Cave plays a mid-50s rock icon living in Brighton, working on his writing, attempting to make sense of his own quasi-mythical existence.

Narrated by Paul Rudd, this documentary chronicles the final major tour of legendary rock band Rush.

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.

An upbeat chronicle of very hard rock in a very hard place, Death Metal Angola is one of the livelier and more enticingly exotic additions to the ever - burgeoning music - documentary sub-genre.

The event rocked the world and has inspired a flock of films and documentaries.

There are many documentaries about musicians and rock stars, but only a few of them really capture their famous subjects in such a unique and intimate way.

A new documentary provides an intimate look at the partnership that produced one of rock's greatest groups

From Little Shop of Horrors to Rock and Roll High School, the documentary explores the wide variety of films that encompass Corman's prolific and enduring career.

It made this documentary look like an insufferably cute, patronizing comedy about the irony of very old people belting out rock songs like I Want to Be Sedated.

Nine Catalyst films premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, Dark Money, The Devil We Know, Inventing Tomorrow, Night Comes On (NEXT Innovator Award), Sorry To Bother You, A Thousand Thoughts, This Is Home (World Documentary Audience Award), and Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Subsequently working with Lamberto Bava in such efforts as 1985's Demons, the aspiring director would serve as director of the documentary Dario Argento's World of Horror as well as a promotional Bill Wyman rock video (both 1985) before embarking on his maiden voyage as a director with Stage Fright (1987).

Leading Australian director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) returns to MIFF with two productions: The Go - Betweens — Right Here; a documentary charting the four - decade long story of beloved indie rock band The Go - Betweens, in their own words and with never - before - seen archival footage; and Australia Day; an excoriating, illuminating take on a most fraught debate, set over a pulse - racing 12 hours.

Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures «Brave» «Frankenweenie» (Walt Disney Pictures) «ParaNorman» «Rise of the Guardians» «Wreck - It Ralph» Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures «A People Uncounted» «The Gatekeepers» «The Island President» «The Other Dream Team» «Searching For Sugar Man» TELEVISION Producer of Long - Form Television (David L. Wolper Award) «American Horror Story» «The Dust Bowl» «Game Change» «Hatfields & McCoys» «Sherlock» Producer of Episodic Television, Drama (The Norman Felton Award) «Breaking Bad» «Downton Abbey» «Game of Thrones» «Homeland» «Mad Men» Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy (The Danny Thomas Award) «30 Rock» «The Big Bang Theory» «Curb Your Enthusiasm» «Louie» «Modern Family»

Enter Good Hair, a mix of comedy and documentary featuring comedian Chris Rock trying to answer the question: what is good hair?

The Holy Modal Rounders (Unrated) Musical documentary recounts the unorthodox career of The Holy Modal Rounders, an obscure folk rock band which maintained a cult following for 40 - year despite bickering, addiction and other bad habits.

Factory is releasing Penelope Spheeris» cult punk rock documentary trilogy «The Decline of Western Civilization.»

For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.

The documentaries always stand out at Sundance, and one of the best kicked off opening night, Morgan Neville's «Twenty Feet From Stardom,» about the notoriously unheralded backup singers who have provided so many memorable riffs and refrains on our favorite pop, rock, and R&B recordings from the 1960s and»70s.

Dislocation Blues, a short documentary by Ho - Chunk filmmaker Sky Hopinka, chronicled the 2016 Standing Rock protests in images both ravishing and harrowing, recalling the keen eye and purposefully jagged montage of recent nonfiction landmarks like James Longley's Iraq in Fragments or Craig Atkinson's Do Not Resist.

Room 237 joins the ranks of classic documentaries like Rock Hudson's Home Movies and Los Angeles Plays Itself that encourage cineastes to take a closer look at the secret messages that movies send, and to ask whether they're intended or not — or whether it matters.

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Over the course of his career, Demme has captured a variety of human emotions and experiences, whether in his thrillers, dramas or rock concert documentaries, and he returns to the big screen once again with the deeply human, honest and heartfelt film, «Ricki and the Flash,» written by fellow Oscar winner Diablo Cody («Juno»).

Rob Reiner (1984) Although this stone cold classic takes aim at (rock) documentaries and how they canonise their subjects, Reiner's main target of spoofery is the rock»n' roll lifestyle.

Documentary makers Julie Cohen and Betsy West celebrate the career of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, noting her recent emergence as a feminist rock...

In 2003 he released the DVD, «Let America Laugh,» a documentary film of his groundbreaking stand up tour of alternative, indie rock clubs.

This documentary examines the dying art of rock music posters, which have had a huge effect on the world of graphic design.

A «making of» documentary shot for the movie's 25th anniversary provides plenty of tidbits, like Spacek's insistence that it be her hand grabbing Amy Irving from the grave, even though she had to lie for hours under a pile of rocks.

When it came to the normal cinematically inclined aspects of a typical rock star career — music videos and documentaries — Petty managed to luck out and find himself in the hands of some serious filmmakers and not merely the usual video hacks.

Controversial television programming like This Week's 1987 documentary Death on the Rock, about the shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar by the SAS, was banned outright or delayed until its news - value shelf life had long expired.

Ladies & Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones (Eagle Rock)-- You may recognize some of the footage from the documentary Stones in Exile, and no surprise.

Theatrical Feature: The Artist Animated Feature: The Adventures of Tintin TV Drama: Boardwalk Empire TV Longform: Downton Abbey TV Comedy: Modern Family TV News: 60 Minutes TV Sports: ESPN's 30 for 30 TV Variety: The Colbert Report TV Documentary: American Masters TV Reality: The Amazing Race Web Series: 30 Rock Presents Documentary Feature: Beats, Rhymes and Life: the Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

Foo Fighters Director: James Moll The definitive documentary of the last great American rock n» roll band: chronicling Foo Fighters» 16 year history from their first club gigs to the recording of their new album in Dave Grohl's garage.

Ethan's Top 5 Favorite Films: # 5: Sound City - A true rock documentary looking back at the rise and fall (twice) of a dingy but well known music studio called Sound City.

The result of this last hurrah is Chelsea on the Rocks, a riveting mix of documentary and drama featuring reminiscences of some former tenants like Ethan Hawke, R. Crumb and Dennis Hopper.

I, Daniel Blake is one of Loach's best and most unrelenting films, and Jarmusch's labor - of - love documentary on the rock group The Stooges, Gim me Danger is a solid piece of work.

No Asian Martial Arts flicks or Miike films; no rock documentaries; gone are the Euro - horror entries as well, signaling that the French New Wave (of horror) is taking a break.

They include a Todd Haynes retrospective and a conversation with the filmmaker; the documentary premiere Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, which looks back at the 2016 Native American occupation of the Dakota Access Pipeline; and Amazon's Cannes Film Festival closer, Lynne Ramsay's sublime noir You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a befuddled assassin who is hired to bust down a sex - trafficking ring that has captured a senator's daughter.