Along with “Neil Young: Heart of Gold” and a yet-unfinished film, it’s a part of a Neil Young triptyc being created by Demme. The film features Young, captured over two nights in 2007 at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pa. It includes a blistering 23-mi
On a hot summer’s night in Toronto, a Broken Social Scene show tops all expectations and resonates deep into the morning, into the lives of two close friends… closer than they knew.
The fouth title of the second series “Musicbox Club Docs” is dedicated to Pop dell’Arte.
Mauricio Kagel, one of the great composers of the second half of the 20th century, returns to Buenos Aires for the first time in more than 40 years to participate in a festival in his honor. This observational documentary portrays the scenes behind an event that will leave an indelible mark in Argentine musical history.
In 1974, at the peak of their talents and careers, some of the most celebrated American Rhythm & Blues and soul acts of the time, including James Brown, B. B. King, Bill Withers and The Spinners, traveled to Kinshasa. They came together in Zaire’s capital with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa, such as Miriam Makeba and Afrisa for a three-day long concert. Most of the American performers, emboldened by the African-American liberation movement, were visiting Africa for the first time, and they let themselves be inspired by their African roots.
“The Man who Bottled Clouds” takes us on a journey of discovery, not just into the harsh Brazilian northeast, not just into the BAIÃO [the songwriter, composer, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira (1915-1979), known as Baião Doctor], but into the culture and history of the entire country.
It is a portrait of the band Low. The core of the band is a married Mormon couple: Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. Sparhawk, a neurotic doubter by nature, is the main character of this 70 minute movie about religion, violence, questions of conscience and madness, that can also be seen as a touching love story.
A journey to the past and to the China of the Cultural Revolution years.
The Yang Ban Xi are a series of propagandist operas created under the watchful eye of Jiang Qin, Mrs. Mao Zedong, and were the only artistic works exhibited in the country’s theaters
A rockumentary, as much a reinvention of memory as a parade of the peerless and the pathetic, from Elvis to Sid Vicious. The filmmaker was a boy at the time, too young to get to Monterey or take the drug cocktails on offer. So in 2011 he returns as a full member of the elite, inserting himself as a biographer to the times.
A document of a system observed from a fixed point, and the point is the musician Otomo Yoshihide. It is a gesture, arbitrary yet perfect, as though connecting stars with lines and giving a name to the constellation.
It was January 1968. Tucked away in a gray prison cafeteria in Northern California, hard men doing hard time witnessed the making of a legendary album. “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison” remains one of the greatest live albums ever made. Cram’s film is a moving portrait of Cash as well as two inmates of Folsom.
Three chords, three countries, one revolution… Punk in Africa is the story of the multi-racial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where the punk subculture represented a genuinely radical political impulse.
He began uploading Moore’s videos to Youtube in 2006. He later edits original videoclips out of Moore’s old home-video archive, found footage from the internet, plus new footage filmed by R. Stevie. The YouTube channel grows. In 2009, he begins to build a documentary assembled from his vast archive of R. Stevie Moore DVDs and CDs.
My Dear Friend Chico is a music documentary composed like a letter. An answer to the song Tanto Mar by Chico Buarque de Hollanda through the songs and testemonies of the participating musicians. The purpose is to sketch a portrait of the contemporary Portugal.
In May of 2011, Neil Young brought his solo tour to Toronto’s Massey Hall, an iconic venue in the city of his birth. He drove a 1956 Crown Victoria from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario. Along the drive, Young recounted insightful and introspective stories from his youth to filmmaker and long-time fan and collaborator Jonathan Demme.
This documentary is a portrait of the band TV on the Radio as they transition from indie darlings to a major label success. We watch as they struggle to come to terms with the business side of music while trying to maintain artistic integrity. Also, there are songs.
A concert film on Sigur Rós’ INNI, filmed over two nights at Alexandra Place in London, England, toward the end of the band’s 2008 tour, INNI is a unique rockumentary. INNI transports the viewers right on stage with its intimate and, at times, claustrophobic shots. A visionary film.
A portrait of Aldina Duarte, a “fado” singer out of conviction and love. The film profiles her, unveiling her personality, traveling with her on a journey across her city, Lisbon, and her favorite places. Aldina exposes herself with the straightforwardness and a certain spice full of prudishness so identifying to her.