Ostensibly only peripherally about music, and not strictly a rock documentary ... Temple lays out the history of the world’s greatest festival in a format that imitates the event itself ...
Great rock documentaries: The Beatles in Get Back; Bob Dylan in Don't Look Back; The Stones in Gimme Shelter; and The Who in The Kids Are Alright. Picture: Album/Associated Press/RGR Collection ...
Rivalries, tragedies and, above all, great songs, DIG! Has everything a good rock ‘n’ roll documentary needs, and to celebrate its 20th anniversary it’s heading back to cinemas. DIG! XX is a ...
Yet rock, pop, and modern music’s myriad subgenres ... and Eric Idle, was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America. – Martin Chilton Backing singers usually ...
It’s a modest dream, but it is mine: I want to write the liner notes for the Criterion Collection edition of Ondi Timoner’s 2004 rock documentary ... one fan as “the best sixties revivalist ...
it then becomes one of the greatest tales of rediscovery in music history – documentaries of any stripe are rarely so life-affirming. A seminal time capsule of glam rock at its glammiest ...
Almost 20 years on from one of the greatest of all rock documentaries, Dont Look Back, came the father of all mockumentaries, the genre-defining This is Spinal Tap. The depiction of the “world ...
The result, Best Worst Movie, is a celebration of fandom ... one of the most groundbreaking rock bands to ever stalk the Earth. Without the Stooges, punk wouldn't exist as we know it, given ...
The best pop and rock documentaries do more than just show artists on stage—they offer insight into the music, revealing something that sound alone can’t convey. Here’s a list of 20 of the ...