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Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the first part of The Beatles' career the period in which they toured and captured the worlds acclaim. Explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together all the while, exploring The Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable,...
6) Twist
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with interviews, Twist chronicles the evolution of rock and roll dance. From the time when moving hips marked you as a social degenerate, to a time when shaking your "thing" became the dance-form that rocked the world.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Since its overwhelming success on Broadway forty years ago, Hair: let the sun shine in has inspired generations with its messages of love, non-violence and liberation. This definitive and entertaining documentary highlights the continuing relevance of the show and its still radical, transformative power. In preparation for its fortieth anniversary, the show's author and co-creator Jim Rado rehearses a troupe of young performers for a new production...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator--the originator--Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archival footage, performances, and interviews, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions." --container.
11) Rumble
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The history of legendary rock group Chicago is chronicled from their inception in 1967 all the way to present day. "Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago" is the unbelievable true story of the rock band Chicago. Spanning 50 years, from 1967 to the present day, it highlights a band that has sold over 100 million records and has never taken a year off of touring, still playing well over 100 shows a year. Detailed are several stories behind their...
13) The last waltz
Pub. Date
[2005], 1978.
Language
English
Description
The Band, one of rock's superstar groups, decided to call it quits after sixteen grueling years on the road. The group held this farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland, the site of their first performance. The performance is interspersed with interview footage.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the first part of the Beatles' career, the period in which they toured and captured the world's acclaim. Explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings - how they made decisions, created their music, and built their collective career together - all while exploring the Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Arguably the sharpest tool in the rock musician box, Frank Zappa was never lost for words when presented with another s opinion and would counter any position he did not agree with, fluently, eloquently and with the style and wit normally reserved for the great orator or the finest raconteur. Frank could be funny, serious and just about anywhere in-between and could literally talk for hours without losing a single member of his audience. This DVD...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1975, having been driven to the brink of breakdown via a bad drug habit and overwork, David Bowie left LA and set up camp in a rundown Berlin apartment with his buddy Iggy Pop - similarly on the cusp of madness. While there Bowie created a quite astonishing triumvirate of albums under his own name, and a further two with Pop. This film uncovers the full story of this remarkable period of Bowie?s life and the records that were created in its midst....
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the late Grammy Award-winning musician, Harry Nilsson, who the Beatles once proclaimed as their favorite artist. This retrospective traces Nilsson's rise and his turbulent life as seen by many friends, including Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Richard Perry, Robin Williams, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band₂s intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly...
Pub. Date
2011, 91992.
Language
English
Description
"Take a trip with Sonic Youth and Nirvana as they stumble through their 1991 European club & festival tour! Let filmmaker Dave Markey put you on stage, off stage and backstage! Witness the boredom! The cynicism! And rock harder than you may ever have rocked before!"--Container.
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