Music Please!
Overview of films
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Wattstax
Compilation of the legendary seven-hour concert in 1972 by musicians of the Stax label (including Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas and the Staple Singers)
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Arena: Pete Doherty
For a couple of months, a British documentary team was allowed to tag along behind the scenes with one of the most controversial, intriguing and ch
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Sonic Youth: “Do You Believe in Rapture?”
Ode to the legendary rock club CBGB with a flaming performance by Sonic Youth.
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Daft Punk’s Electroma
Musical science fiction moods in cool stylised story about two robots who want to be human. The desert landscape is more important than the story a
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NYC Weights and Measures
The filmmaker made shots of New York streets on 16mm. With a ticker-tape parade for astronaut John Glenn. And without material that was impounded b
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Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!
Even non-fans become enthusiastic when they see this brilliantly edited concert recording of the Beastie Boys, shot by 50 people in the audience. I
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Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Powerful documentary by double Oscar winner Barbara Kopple (American Dream, Harlan County, USA), together with Cecilia Peck, about the famous count
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The Old Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music
This fast-paced and varied documentary film tracks the history of Harry Smith’s famous Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial comp
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Superlovestarpower 2 (aka The Album Project)
Classic album covers of Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King and John Lennon have new life blown into them.
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Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
Travel pictures. Anonymous travellers on their way to an unknown destination.
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Building a Broken Mousetrap
Partly on grainy black & white film material and partly in colourful digital, Jem Cohen masterfully records the stamping intensity of the alre